VGS News & Events: 30 June through 6 July 2019

Coming Events:

Monday: July 1, 2019
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting:
10:00 AM in the MacArthur Room at the Eisenhower Recreation Center

Topic: "Using Family Book Creator to Publish Your Story" - Tim Sherrod

Tuesday: July 2, 2019

Adoption & Mystery KIN SIG Meeting

9:00 AM at the Lake Miona Recreation Center

Thursday: July 4, 2019

Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting: Cancelled

Saturday, July 13, 2019

State Archives of Florida Genealogy Workshop  (Other Events)

10:00 am to 1:30 pm

Archives Reference Room, R.A. Gray Building, Tallahassee, Florida

Download the  flyer for more info...  This is not a VGS Event

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Gen News and Announcements:

New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 17 June 2019

FamilySearch
"FamilySearch added over 1 million new, New York Passenger Arrival records (1944-1948) this week, and more from American Samoa, Belgium, Germany, Peru, South Africa, and the United States, including Kansas, Ohio, North Dakota, and Georgia."
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New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 24 June 2019

FamilySearch
"FamilySearch added new, free, historical records this week from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Liberia, Luxembourg, Peru, Scotland, and the United States, including Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Colorado, Minnesota, California, Michigan, and Pennsylvania."
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Ancestry® Unveils Over 225 New Communities for Members Who Have Ties to France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand

Ancestry
"Utilizing our DNA network of over 15 million people, our vast collection of public family trees, and our patented Genetic Communities™ technology, AncestryDNA is able to identify groups of people with shared DNA and determine where their ancestors likely lived over the past 75-300 years."
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How to Use FamilySearch Person IDs:

FamilySearch
"While exploring your family tree, you may have noticed a combination of letters and numbers below each family member’s name.
These are person identification numbers (ID), and understanding what they are and how you can use them can be a great asset to you as you do your family history!"
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4 Simple Steps to Help You Decipher Old Family Photos:

Family History Daily
"Hoping to figure out who is in an old family photo, what year it was taken or what the reason for the shot was? There is no doubt that discovering the who, when, where and why of family pictures is one of the most rewarding forms of genealogical sleuthing there is, but sometimes the job can seem nearly impossible. The good news is, there are some strategies that can help."
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Technology:

Tired of Robocalls? Stop Answering Your Phone:

How-to-Geek
"The robocall problem keeps getting worse. Nearly half of all calls come from automated systems, and that number is increasing. Tired of answering your phone and talking to robots, scammers, or scammer robots? Just stop answering."
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Education:

How to Properly Label Those Photos You Inherited:

Ancestral Findings 246
"Most genealogists will eventually inherit photos. People in your family know you're the family genealogist. When the time comes to pass photos on to someone else, either due to the death of someone in the family or because an elderly relative is downsizing, you are the most likely person to get them. Some may be in albums, but quite often you will get loose photos kept in boxes and other unlikely methods of storage. Only rarely will these photos be labeled. It is up to you to label them and get them organized so future generations can enjoy them."
Listen now... 4:18 minutes

Webinars:

Remedies for Copy & Paste Genealogy:

Legacy Family Tree
"Family trees and the information they contain are easily copied and re-published by others online. This means errors are duplicated many times over. We will discuss solutions for dealing with these issues."
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern
Presenter: Cyndi Ingle
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Evaluating Shared DNA:

Legacy Family Tree
"DNA testing companies estimate the nature of your genetic relationships to DNA cousins based on the types, amounts and locations of shared DNA. Nevertheless, their estimations are typically quite broad. In this webinar, learn to analyze the DNA you share with genetic cousins to better estimate the nature of your relationships. Explore probabilities of relationship based on total shared DNA, number of segments, types of shared DNA, and relationships to multiple individuals. Navigate genetically equivalent relationships. Interpret shared DNA within the context of other available evidence. Evaluate proposed relationships and guard against the possibility of misattributed parentage or half relationships. Learn to better utilize genetic evidence in the exploration of family trees."
Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Presenter: Paul Woodbury
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