10 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Wednesday, 15 Jan 2014

Today's Things

• The Legal Genealogist has issued a "call to arms" in Virginia and the Virginia Genealogical Society needs your help.
• Here's an excellent tip from James on Genealogy's Star about using the Library of Congress' website for your family history research.
• Ancestors in Boston? On the Genealogy Bank blog, Tony Pettinato lists 86 online Boston newspapers to help you out with solving your family history mysteries.
• Makeuseof.com recently compared 4 screenshot tools.
• Speaking of screenshots, here's how you do it on your Chromebook also from Makeuseof.com.
• Speaking of Chromebook, here are a list of apps to do the stuff you wanna do on your Chromebook. [Handy conversion chart, IMO.]
• Speaking of Chrome [as in the operating system], Chrome 32 launches with a whole bunch of new features, according to TechCrunch.]
• And then Google launched a new activity stream in Google Drive that tells collaborators all about the activity that's been going on in their shared Google Drive folders/files. [Handy. And dandy.]

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• Genealogy Trails volunteer contributors uploaded various records and information for Pearl River County, Mississippi; Lawrence County, Arkansas; and Greene County, Arkansas.
• And USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 167 files yesterday for various counties in the following US states: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.

Other things that might interest you. Maybe. Maybe not. But maybe.

• Did you miss the 10 genealogy things you needed to know yesterday?
• Here's what to pack for Rootstech 2014. Can you add anything else?
• And here are 10 steps to fix that online family tree you started.

Happy Researching!
~Caroline
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