Tomorrow: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Irish Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Osceola Room at the Chula Vista Recreation Center
The 11 Million Free Immigration Records You May Have Completely Overlooked:
Family History Daily
"What if your ancestors were among the millions and millions of people who came to New York’s shores in the decades before Ellis Island opened in 189? Where did these pre-Ellis immigrants land? Were their names and details recorded as well?"
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Kate Taylor: In copyright law, who owns a family’s history?
The Globe and Mail
"The Federal Court of Canada will get a break from dry tax law, arcane government disputes and a backlog of immigration cases next week when it turns its attention to a poignant cultural question: Who owns a family’s history? The court will start hearing a copyright infringement case in which American-Israeli journalist Judy Maltz alleges that the bestselling young-adult Holocaust novel My Mother’s Secret is cribbed from a documentary she made about her family’s escape from the Nazis in wartime Europe."
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The Huge Genealogy Mistake We All Need to Stop Making Now:
Family History Daily
"As genealogy grows as a hobby, and information becomes easier and easier to find and share, one particular mistake has become a huge problem online – copying and sharing other people’s research.
The reasons NOT to do this are numerous, and yet so many people continue the practice that longtime researchers can’t help wondering why?"
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Typical Genealogy Research Problem: Here’s What You Want to Do:
GenealogyBank
"Here is my task: find documentation for the marriage of Benjamin Walter Tribble and Lilian Blanche Mathias, who were married on 30 December 1906 in Irmo, South Carolina."
An example on how to go about finding that type of information...
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5 Things That Will Disappear In 5 Years:
TechCrunch
"The next five years will no doubt unleash products and services that we have yet to imagine. But as we progress, what will we leave behind? Here are a handful of things we use today that likely will either be gone completely or on their last breath, disrupted by new innovations, technology and methods."
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Villages Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution Receives Its Charter.
Congratulations to the local SAR Chapter on receiving their Charter from the National Sons of the American Revolution. They installed their officers at a recent meeting. They are:
David Bussone – President
Dan Hungerford – Vice President
Albert Paul – Treasurer
Bill Dyer – Registrar
Ron Toops – At Large Member
Dr. Don Wyman – At Large Member
Bill Dyer and Albert Paul are also members of The VGS.
Today In History: 12 Jan 2016
1908: A wireless message is sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1926: U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth month.
1932: Oliver Wendell Holmes retires from the Supreme Court at age 90.
1588 Birthday: John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
