Today: Friday: March 11, 2016
Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah Center
Recent Updated Records: New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Ancestry
"This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1820-1957. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger lists."TOTAL RECORDS: 82,920,850 View this collection
Does Your Cousin’s DNA Make You a Suspect?
Gavin Phillips
"Remember when genealogy was a specialist industry? When it would cost thousands of dollars to uncover your family history, as well as countless hours poring over dusty tomes in the back of the local library to find a missing branch of the family tree? You probably also remember the explosion of interest in genealogy in the mid-2000’s, where countless websites appeared, each one dedicated to helping you uncover your family history."
Continue reading...
How to Safely Share Passwords with Family Members:
How-to-Geek
"Keeping your password secret is a fundamental security practice, but there are times when you want to share a password with family members. Don’t just send those passwords in an email, though! Use these secure alternatives instead."
Continue reading...
Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares The Innocent:
AAAS
"On a Tuesday morning in Boise, biologist Greg Hampikian is on speakerphone with Christopher Tapp, an inmate at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. Tapp is in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit. Many others think he’s innocent as well—lawyers, journalists, an organization of former judges; even the victim’s mother."
Continue reading...
Almost in America: Portraits from Ellis Island:
MessyNessy
"Unlike most early documentary photography from his time, Hine’s photographs were curiously compassionate, unusually humanist and raw. It often feels as though he must have assumed the guise of a typical roving documentary photographer of the era just as a means to secretly encourage social consciousness."
Continue reading...
This Day In History: 11 March
1702: The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper is published.
1811: Ned Ludd leads a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization.
1930: President Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
1860 Birthday: Thomas Hastings, architect of the New York Public Library.
Recent Updated Records: New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Ancestry
"This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1820-1957. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger lists."TOTAL RECORDS: 82,920,850 View this collection
Does Your Cousin’s DNA Make You a Suspect?
Gavin Phillips
"Remember when genealogy was a specialist industry? When it would cost thousands of dollars to uncover your family history, as well as countless hours poring over dusty tomes in the back of the local library to find a missing branch of the family tree? You probably also remember the explosion of interest in genealogy in the mid-2000’s, where countless websites appeared, each one dedicated to helping you uncover your family history."
Continue reading...
How to Safely Share Passwords with Family Members:
How-to-Geek
"Keeping your password secret is a fundamental security practice, but there are times when you want to share a password with family members. Don’t just send those passwords in an email, though! Use these secure alternatives instead."
Continue reading...
Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares The Innocent:
AAAS
"On a Tuesday morning in Boise, biologist Greg Hampikian is on speakerphone with Christopher Tapp, an inmate at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. Tapp is in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit. Many others think he’s innocent as well—lawyers, journalists, an organization of former judges; even the victim’s mother."
Continue reading...
Almost in America: Portraits from Ellis Island:
MessyNessy
"Unlike most early documentary photography from his time, Hine’s photographs were curiously compassionate, unusually humanist and raw. It often feels as though he must have assumed the guise of a typical roving documentary photographer of the era just as a means to secretly encourage social consciousness."
Continue reading...
This Day In History: 11 March
1702: The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper is published.
1811: Ned Ludd leads a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization.
1930: President Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
1860 Birthday: Thomas Hastings, architect of the New York Public Library.
