Friday, June 30, 2017

VGS Latest News and Tips: 30 June 2017

Gen News:

It’s Here! RootsMagic releases Ancestry Features...

RootsMagic
"Last year, we announced we were working with Ancestry® to integrate Ancestry Hints® and Ancestry’s records and online trees with our software. After months of development and the feedback of thousands of testers, we’re pleased to announce the release of RootsMagic 7.5, a free update to RootsMagic 7 that adds two amazing new features: TreeShare™ for Ancestry and the addition of Ancestry Hints to RootsMagic’s WebHints™ feature."
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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Needs Your Help Researching Old Newspapers:

Family History Daily
"History Unfolded provides a detailed explanation of the project on their website, as well as a very helpful resource for locating newspaper archives near you."
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Foreign Research:

HighpointResearch
"Foreign research is not as difficult as you might think — in fact, using some of the tools we describe below, it’s actually a lot of fun.  However, it can take some initial effort as you get yourself up-to-speed on using the records that are available for the country you’re interested in."

Tech:

How to Follow a Twitter Feed in Your RSS Reader:

How-to-Geek
"RSS readers are a great way to keep on top of the news. Unfortunately, a lot of sites have moved away from RSS and towards just publishing all their articles on a Twitter stream. This isn’t so good if you want to make sure you keep up to date with a particular site; anything they post will get buried in your timeline with a million other Tweets. What you can do, however, is convert their Twitter feed to an RSS feed. Here’s how."
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Fragmentation Isn’t Android’s Fault, It’s the Manufacturers’:

How-to-Geek
"It’s 2017, and I still see people criticizing Android for “fragmentation”. This gives Android in general a bad name, and I want to make the facts clear: this isn’t Google or Android’s fault. It’s the fault of your manufacturer."
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Education:

Tax Records: More Information Than You Think:

Ancestral Findings
"Have you started using tax records to research the lives of your ancestors? If not, you should. Tax records offer a lot of information you never imagined."
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