Monday, May 31
Italian SIG
Zoom Meeting – 1:00pm
Coordinator: Mary Frances Gerace
Southern California Genealogical Society: GENETIC GENEALOGY 2021
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE – Friday & Saturday, June 4th & 5th
A world-class DNA conference! Get in on the latest discoveries through sessions from 20 genetic genealogy experts including keynote speaker Roberta Estes, MBA. Other notable presenters include Maurice J. Gleeson (MD of Genetic Genealogy, Ireland), Leah La Perle Larkin, PhD (creator of WATO), and DNA authors Emily Aulicino, MEd, and Richard Hill, MBA. Complete details and registration links can be found on the SCGS Jamboree website.
WEBINARS
Solving Family Mysteries with mtDNA Projects
Wednesday, June 2 @ 2:00pm (EDT)
Presenter: Mags Gaulden
Working your mother's mother's mother's line. We will work a case study of how adoption was disproven in this family from the dark recesses of Appalachia. We will follow the maternal line of a family from the mountains of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, to solve this family mystery. This is a free webinar – advance registration is required – click HERE.
African Americans in the U.S. Revolutionary War
Fridayday, June 4 @ 2:00pm (EDT)
Presenter: Janice Lovelace
Nearly 10,000 people (mostly men) of African ancestry fought in the Revolutionary War on both sides of the conflict – hoping that freedom from slavery would come with the end of the eight year war. What records exist and how can genealogists discover them? This is a free webinar – advance registration is required – click HERE.
TECHNOLOGY
How to Install Windows 10’s May 2021 Update (21H1)
howtogeek.com
Windows 10’s May 2021 Update was released on May 18, 2021. As always, Microsoft is slowly rolling this update out to Windows 10 PCs, bit by bit. Windows Update should automatically install the 21H1 update on your PC, but it may take a few weeks. Here’s how to get it right now … continue reading
RESEARCHING
New English and Welsh Parish Records Are Ready to Search
findmypast.com
Another Findmypast Friday, another fresh batch of family history records and newspaper pages for you to enjoy. Take a look at what’s new … continue reading
Transcribing History
legalgenealogist.com
The Citizen Archivist Program
There can be no better time than the Memorial Day weekend to join the ranks of the transcription warriors. No better time than this to add the brainpower of the genealogical community to the Citizen Archivist program of the U.S. National Archives (NARA).
The program offers all of us — The Legal Genealogist included — a chance to add to the findability and usefulness of records held by NARA. All it takes is a little bit of time, a little bit of effort and an interest in history.
History like, for example, one set of records particularly apt for this Memorial Day Weekend: the Escape and Evasion Reports from World War II, now featured as a Citizen Archivist Mission. This is a project where any of us can transcribe “reports that typically include typed or handwritten narrative …” continue reading
It’s time to say good-bye to the VGS Blog.
Due to low subscriber and readership levels, and the discontinuation of the free email subscription service provided through Blogger,
this edition of the Blog will be our last.
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