Monday: July 9, 2018
Family Tree Maker Users SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the
Mulberry Grove Recreation Center
Topic: "Your Questions Answered"
Thursday: July 12, 2018
German Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Reliance Room at the
Late Miona Recreation Center
Topic: "Problem solving and answering both general and German genealogy questions"
Friday: July 13, 2018
Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room
at the Savannah Center
Topic: "DNA Testing Basics"
6 Uncommon Places to Find a Missing Birth Date for Your Ancestor:
Family History Daily"We all have those ancestors who make us want to pull our hair out. You know, the ones we just can’t find key pieces of information about – like a birth or death date? Locating a date of birth can be especially difficult because oftentimes only ages are listed on old records. And even on records that usually do list a birth date this detail is sometimes left blank because the informant didn’t have the needed information (this is common on death certificates)."
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New Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of June 18, 2018
FamilySearch"FamilySearch added 2.5 million searchable names to its England historical record collections, 1.5 million in Germany, 5.4 million in the Netherlands, and over 1 million in South Africa. Almost 1.5 million new browsable images can be found for Mexico. Additional indexed records and images were also added for Albania, Chili, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Italy, Peru, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and in the United States in Kentucky, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, and Utah."
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Scandinavian Genealogy Records And More:
Genealogy Gems"It’s a Scandinavian genealogy dream come true: over 135 million new free records at FamilySearch! Also new (and free): church records for England, France, Germany; Italian and Mexican civil registration; archival indexes for The Netherlands; South African court records; Kentucky death records; Michigan births and Utah delayed birth records."
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Five Steps for Finding that Hard-to-Find Irish Ancestor:
FindMyPast"Irish research is challenging as a result of the loss of records due to civil war (particularly the 1922 Four Courts Fire). Simply knowing that a person was from Ireland doesn't narrow the focus to a specific townland, parish, or even county which is necessary for locating the correct records."
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Getting Started with GEDmatch:
Kitty Cooper"If you and a relative have tested your DNA at different companies, you can compare your results at a free third party site – GEDmatch.com – which also has many additional, useful tools for analyzing your DNA and looking at match lists. Learning to use those tools may take some time as they are not intuitive, so I am writing this post to help a friend, Barbara, start to use them."
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How to Use War of 1812 Pension Files:
FamilySearch"Do you have an ancestor who participated in the War of 1812? If so, the War of 1812 pension files may hold a treasure trove of genealogical information for you. These records have previously been difficult to access until, led by the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the genealogical community began digitizing them in 2015 to make them available for the bicentennial of this important war."
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Technology:
What to Do If Your iPhone Is Getting a Bad Signal:
How-to-Geek"There are dozens of factors that can affect your cell service—from your distance to a tower to the weather—but what can you do if, for some reason, your iPhone suddenly isn’t getting a good signal? Let’s find out."
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Education:
Organizing Tips to Help Tidy up Your Genealogy Home Office:
Ancestral Findings"Is your genealogy work piling up in your research office? It's a common genealogy issue. Join me today on the Ancestral Findings Podcast and I’ll give you some powerful tips to get your research organized."
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Webinars:
The Art of Negative-Space Research: Women
Legacy Family Tree Webinars"Like using negative space in art, the successful identification of women is often accomplished by using the records of friends and family."
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Presenter: Jeanne Bloom, CG
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Freedmen's Bureau Records - Valuable to ALL Southern Research:
Legacy Family Tree Webinars"The impact of the Civil War was keenly felt by many living from DE to TX. The Freedmen's Bureau Records are full of pertinent records; not just the records of freed slaves. While records of freedmen are found, a lot information about ALL impoverished southerners is also found. If a family tree contains confederate soldiers who were wounded or killed in action, their surviving parents, spouses or children might be found in these documents as they requested or received rations, were declared destitute, etc. If your ancestors were freed, they might also be found receiving rations, or being a party to a contract."
Friday, July 13, 2018 at 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Jeanne Bloom, CG
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