Reminders:
Today: May 3, 2017
Today: May 3, 2017
French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center
Tomorrow: May 4, 2017
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Daytona Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Gen News:
New Historic Records On FamilySearch: Week of April 24, 2017
FamilySearch"Almost 2 million indexed records were recently published in the United States including vital records from Rhode Island and Maine as well as Marriage Records from Connecticut."
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Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too:
Nautilus"Figures as different as Charles Dickens, Henri Poincaré, and Ingmar Bergman, working in disparate fields in different times, all shared a passion for their work, a terrific ambition to succeed, and an almost superhuman capacity to focus. Yet when you look closely at their daily lives, they only spent a few hours a day doing what we would recognize as their most important work."
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Jewish Genealogy Research:
FamilySearchDid you know?
- Columbus took Jews with him in hopes they could translate Oriental languages.
- Jewish births are sometimes listed in local church records.
- Emma Lazarus, daughter of Sephardic Jews, wrote the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..."
- Jews are the oldest group with their national identity and cultural heritage intact.
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Tech:
How to Optimize Safari for Maximum Privacy:
How-to-Geek"Like other modern web browsers, Apple’s Safari has a few features that send your data over the Internet. For example, Safari sends all your searches to Apple with the default settings. We don’t recommend you disable all these features, as they do useful things. But we’ll explain what the various options do so you can make informed decisions."
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How to Make Your Instagram Account Private:
How-to-Geek"By default, when you post a photo to Instagram, it’s visible to every other user. If you add any hashtags to your photo, like say, #landscape or #selfie, anyone who searches for that hashtag will be able to find it."
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Education:
5 Genealogy Research Time Management Tips:
Ancestral Findings Podcast"Do you find it difficult to stop doing genealogy research once you get started? Here are 5 time management techniques to help you control your research time?"
Listen now... 6.35 minutes
Software Update:
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