Monday, January 18
Best Practices SIG Meeting
1:00 pm – Online Zoom MeetingAnnette Burke-Lyttle and Pat Adams, Co-coordinators
Wednesday, January 20
VGS General Monthly Meeting
10:00 am - 12:45 pm – Virtual MeetingSpeaker: Lois Abromitis Mackin, PhD
Session 1 Topic: Vital Records
Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/397200083785754380
Session 2 Topic: Finding Overseas Ancestors: An Irish Case Study
Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3548003485294195724
Wednesday, January 20
New England Genealogy SIG Meeting
1:00 pm – Online Zoom MeetingChristine Courtwright, Coordinator
The Villages Genealogical Society's Annual Seminar
is just around the corner!
Click HERE for more details and to register.
Ancestry Deepens Focus on Family History; Will Discontinue AncestryHealth
For more than 30 years, Ancestry has provided a platform for people to discover, preserve and share the most important information about themselves and their families. As we enter 2021, more people around the world are embracing Family History to bring their families closer together and build more meaningful connections. With the start of the new year ... continue reading
Technology
Education
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
pbs.org
Today's most compelling personalities discover the surprising stories buried within their own families. Meet 20 fascinating new guests who are game changers in their fields, with family histories that illustrate the power and diversity of the human experience. The new season premiers Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Featured guests include Nina Totenberg, Glenn Close, Tony Shalhoub, Mandy Patinkin, and John Lithgow.
Technology
How to Sort and Filter Data in Excel
How-To Geek
How-To Geek
Sorting and filtering data offers a way to cut through the noise and find (and sort) just the data you want to see. Microsoft Excel has no shortage of options to filter down huge datasets into just what’s needed. Continue reading ...
How to scan documents in Notes and third-party apps on the iPhone and iPad
Macworld.com
Macworld.com
The Notes app hides a powerful document-scanning option, but you can find even better ones if need be. Relatively few people buy stand-alone scanners these days unless they work with printed documents, photos, or photographic negatives, and most financial, medical, and legal documents show up in digital form–but not all. That's particularly true ... continue reading
Education
Minimal viable genetic maps
Hapi-Dna.org
Hapi-Dna.org
In our first blog post on what is a centiMorgan?, we talked about genetic maps. Many of the planned tools at HAPI-DNA (and all of the current ones) use genetic maps to calculate lengths of segments or to simulate segments. One of the most ... continue reading
FamilySearch.org Historical Record Collections
Familysearch.org
As of January 16, 2021, FamilySearch has updated 139 record collections of their 2,945 historical record collections. The updated records include marriages, births, christenings, deaths, church & parish records, and naturalization records from around the world.
Webinars & Online Events
Legacy Family Tree Webinars
Another 50 Websites Every Genealogist Should Know
Speaker: Gina Philibert-Ortega
Wednesday, Jan. 20 – 2:00pm (EST)
Free event but registration is required.
The Internet is one of the best things to happen to genealogy and holds great discoveries for our family history. Previously, Gena explored 50 websites and then she presented 50 more so why not take a look at yet another 50! Learn more and register for this event
National Archives Foundation Online Event
Wednesday, Jan. 27 – 12:00pm (EST)
Free event but registration is required.
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict & Citizenship with Deborah Willis
Professor Deborah Willis discusses The Black Civil War Soldier and offers a kaleidoscopic, yet intimate, portrait of the African American experience from the beginning of the Civil War to 1900. Willis pinpoints the importance ... continue reading
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