Coming Events:
Monday: July 3, 2017
Adoption & Missing Kin SIG Meeting:
Adoption & Missing Kin SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM at the Lake Miona Recreation Center
Thursday: July 5, 2017
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Daytona Room
at the Sea Breeze Recreation CenterA Look Into The Future:
Wednesday, August 22
VGS General Monthly Meeting
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Savannah Regional Recreation Center
"Let's Talk Genealogy" How many times do you just get to sit down and talk genealogy with people whose eyes don’t glaze over? “Let’s Talk Genealogy” is your opportunity! Our meeting room will be set up for small groups to talk about genealogical frustrations and successes, interesting research techniques, record collections, and repositories, and anything else you’d like to share with other folks who love genealogy. Bring notes on a problem or success story, a book you’ve found particularly helpful, a photograph you’re investigating—whatever you’d like to discuss with fellow VGS members. Spend some time making new genealogy friends and celebrating our love for family history research.
Wednesday, October 24
Fall Virtual Seminar On Immigration Records
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Online Virtual Conference
This all-day seminar is offered free to our members as part of our celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Villages Genealogical Society.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be no in-person meeting this month. We will attend the presentations via our own computers or devices at whatever location is convenient for us. (That doesn’t mean you can’t get together with other genealogy buddies for a watch party at somebody’s house, though!)
You MUST register for the presentations in order to get the link to join the seminar on the 24th. Registration link will be available soon.
More details on our website under "Coming Events"...
Gen News and Announcements:
Ancestry Product Update: Conduct Search Utilizing the information on another Member’s Tree:
Ancestry"Customers have been able to conducted a search for a person within their own tree utilizing the information in their timeline. Now we have made it possible for customers to conduct a targeted search from a person in a Public Member Tree."
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Reclaim the Records: Getting Access to Public Records:
Amy Johnson Crow"Most archivists and government clerks are quite helpful in maintaining public records and giving us access. However, there are some instances where the records custodian isn't fulfilling records requests as required by law. That's why there's a group called Reclaim the Records."
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Dateline: Father’s Day – The Unexpected Gift
DNAeXplained"On Father’s Day, NBC’s Dateline aired a full segment about what happened to one family as a result of DNA testing. And it’s not at all what they expected.
A woman tested her DNA, but the family she found was not the family she was looking for.
“I knew everybody, right???”
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How to Find a Cause of Death When You Don’t Have a Death Certificate for Your Ancestor:
Family History Daily"Genealogy research often has a domino effect. Locating one new piece of information can open new paths to explore and can knock down brick walls you have been pounding on for years. In this article I will discuss how a person’s date of death and/or last known location can help you reveal the cause when you don't have a death certificate."
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Digitizing Family Photos and Records: What’s the Best Format to Use?
Family History Daily"From official documents and family snapshots to handwritten letters and more – incorporating scanned images and documents into your genealogy research can be rewarding on many levels. However, the process of digitizing them can often be difficult."
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Records Where You Least Expect Them:
Donna Moughty"About a month ago, I contacted a woman who had a DNA match to my husband, Brian (he gets all the matches…me, not so much). This individual showed up as a 4th cousin and I recognized the surname but there was no family tree to put her in context. I wrote to her, asking where she fit in. Turns out, I had her parents in my tree and she pointed me to an aunt who was doing family research."
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DNA And Privacy: No Man Is A Genetic Island
Lisa Louise Cooke
"The recent identification of the Golden State Killer through a DNA database for genealogy is just one way your DNA may be used in unexpected ways. Lisa Louise Cooke shares 5 key principles to keep in mind when considering your online DNA presence."
How to Use Windows 10’s Hidden Video Editor:
How-to-Geek"Windows 10 has a hidden video editor that works a bit like Windows Movie Maker or Apple iMovie. You can use it to trim videos or create your own home movies and slideshows. You can even have it create videos automatically."
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Education:
Tricks for Finding the Unknown Burial Location of an Ancestor:
Ancestral Findings"Are you searching for the burial location of an ancestor and can't seem to find it? Join me on the Ancestral Findings Podcast and I’ll show you three tried and true techniques for tracking it down."
Listen now... 5.31 minutes
Webinars:
Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 4): Adding Estate/Probate Records
Legacy Family Tree Webinars"In this class, “Adding Estate/Probate Records,” you will learn the six steps of adding estate/probate records to Legacy.?
Friday, July 6, 2018 at 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Geoff Rasmussen
Learn more or Register for this webinar...
Note: The concepts learned will apply to any genealogy software.
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