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| Happy Holidays |
VGS Members can attend any of these events...
Monday: December 25, 2017
Monday: December 25, 2017
Technology SIG Meeting as been canceled.
Wednesday: February 28, 2018
Our Annual All-Day Seminar
New Historic Records on FamilySearch: Week of December 11, 2017
FamilySearch"Good news if your ancestry is from Colombia and Peru! More than one million historic records and one million images from each country were added on FamilySearch this week. Many more records from Brazil, Delaware, Denmark, England, France, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, Ukraine and the United States were also published."
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Bringing Clarity and Simplicity – Updates to Ancestry Terms and Privacy Statement:
Ancestry"Maintaining our customers’ trust is a non-stop, 24/7 job for everyone at Ancestry. That approach is baked into how we build and market our products, how we make decisions as a business and, of course, how we think about, protect and respect the data you share with us. In that spirit, today I am happy to share some news about adjustments to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statements, and additional changes to our Privacy Center, that should make understanding these complex legal documents a little easier."
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FamilySearch Free Sign-in Offers Greater Subscriber Experiences and Benefits:
FamilySearchIn case you missed this previous post, beginning on December 13, 2017, patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free FamilySearch account or sign in to their existing account to continue enjoying all the free expanded benefits FamilySearch has to offer. What this actually means is if an image is available and you want to see or download that image you will need an account and you must be logged-in.
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How Important Is High Resolution For Scanning And Photography?
Genealogy's Star"Are you tempted to join the megapixel race? Are you concerned about the resolution of your digitization efforts for photos, paper records, and other genealogically important documents? Do you use the megapixel count of a camera or smartphone as a factor in your purchase decisions? These issues and more concern anyone trying to digitize records or take photographs. Genealogists and photographers share some of the same concerns."
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Can’t Find Your Ancestor? Genealogy Experts Suggest These 6 Tips:
Family Tree Magazine"Got a frustrating ancestry research problem? Follow these six timeless tips from genealogy experts to work through brick walls and build your family tree.
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Big Updates At Ancestry For Canadian And German Vital Records:
Lisa Louise Cooke"Big records updates at the Genealogy Giant website Ancestry.com! Brand new collections of birth, marriage, death, and census records for Canada were added this week, along with a Remembrance Book for the 100th anniversary of the Halifax explosion. Additionally, new vital records are now available for Germany."
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Running RootsMagic on a Mac with High Sierra:
RootsMagic"Some users have reported that after they updated their Mac OS to High Sierra, that RootsMagic stopped working and generate a cryptic error message that says something like:
CrossOver is unable to initialize a critical component.
Failed to importc xutils module into Python. See console for errors. The program will now exit.
You may need to reinstall RootsMagic!
Learn How... Video 9.43 minutes
Technology:
What’s the Best Way to Back Up My Computer?
How-to-Geek"Everyone loses data at some point in their lives. Your computer’s hard drive could fail tomorrow, ransomware could hold your files hostage, or a software bug could delete your important files. If you’re not regularly backing up your computer, you could lose those files forever."
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How to Use All of Windows 10’s Backup and Recovery Tools:
How-to-Geek"Windows 10 includes several different types of backup and recovery tools. And we’re going to take a look at all of them."
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Education:
How to Get the Most Out of a Trip to Your Ancestral Homeland:
Ancestral Findings..."Have you ever considered going to your ancestral homeland to continue your family history research? You should. Today, I’ll talk about… why, and how to plan the perfect trip."
Listen HERE... 7.53 minutes
Webinars:
Problems and Pitfalls of a Reasonably Shallow Search:
Legacy Family Tree Webinars"Through examples the problems with not conducting an exhaustive search will be highlighted. Assumptions, misinterpretations, and not digging deep enough into original records will all be showcased as to how they can mislead research, sometimes for years. Encouraging the audience to follow the principles of a reasonably exhaustive search should give them incentive to make it a part of their usual research habits. They will also learn particular pitfalls to watch for."
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL
Learn more or Register for this webinar...
The 2018 list of Webinars will be published shortly.
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