VGS Reminders: 5 - 9 June, 2017

Reminders:

Thursday: June 8, 2017

German Genealogy SIG Meeting

9:30 AM in the Reliance Room at the Late Miona Recreation Center

Topic: "Open Discussion" Member success stories & brick walls plus updates on genealogical sites and methods.

Friday: June 9, 2017

Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting

10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah Center

Topic: "DNA News"

Gen News:

Citrus County Genealogy Society June Meeting

The Citrus County Genealogical Society meeting will be held June 13 at 10:00 AM at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3474 W. Southern St., Lecanto. The topic of the program will be “Naturalization Records.” Learn about how the naturalization process changed over time, the content of the records that were created and where to find them. Guests are welcome to attend. For information go to www.citrusgenealogy.com or call Mary Ann at 352-382-5515.

New Historic Records On FamilySearch: Week of May 22, 2017:

FamilySearch
"This week's update brings good news to those with family from Peru with over 1 million newly indexed civil registrations available. Also, look through the large collection of recently indexed New York Passenger Lists. Search these new free records and more from Chile, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Utah, and New Hampshire at FamilySearch by clicking on the links in the interactive table below."
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Battle of Midway: June 4–7, 1942:

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"On June 4–7, 1942, American naval and air forces met the Japanese near Midway Atoll in one of the most decisive naval battles of the war. The Battle of Midway would become a turning point in the naval war in the Pacific, as the Japanese losses sustained there proved irreparable."
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Tech:

How to Adjust Scaling for Different Monitors In Windows 10:

How-to-Geek
"Windows doesn't do the best job of scaling on high-resolution monitors. And if you have multiple monitors with different pixel densities, things can get even more confusing. Thankfully, Windows 10 has settings that can help."
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How to Get Notifications When Someone Posts on Instagram:

How-to-Geek
"Like Facebook, Instagram uses a feed sorting algorithm rather than have everything show up chronologically. This is great because it means you should see all the photos you most likely want to, but sometimes it means a post from a person you want to see everything from will get buried."
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Education:

Mail Order Brides: A History of Love in the Wild West:

Ancestral Findings
"Mail order brides were popular in the Old West in the United States. Here's why, and why so many women decided to become them..."
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Webinars:

Researching Your Minnesota Ancestors:

Legacy Family Tree Webinars
"The resources for tracing Minnesota ancestry are plentiful and the number of indexes, digitized records, and microform editions are growing constantly. The plentiful published indexes, guides, and histories are also important to your research. Many of these are accessible no matter where you live. Many Minnesota related records and publications have been, and continue to be, preserved. "
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA
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The Increasing Need for Foreign Language Indexing:

Legacy Family Tree Webinars
"The need to make searchable records available worldwide continues to grow. While new technologies are making things easier there is still a big need for indexing records in languages other than English. Can you read a foreign language or are you willing to learn a few key words? If so, join the cause at familysearch.org/indexing."
Friday, June 9, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Devin Ashby
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