10 Genealogy Things You Need To Know This Morning, Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013

Genealogy Need To Know, Wed, 23 Oct 2013

• The Association of Professional Genealogists has announced registration is open for their 2014 Professional Management Conference. {The topics look interesting. And? I'd totally pay for something like this and attend it virtually, especially for topics similar to what are offered on day 2.}
• Speaking of attending workshops and webinars virtually, The Armchair Genealogist, Lynn Palermo, gives us some tips on selecting the right workshop or webinar for us and our specific needs. Great ideas since most of us don't have endless amounts of time and cash.
• For those who are using Evernote to help them keep their research organized, Evernote added some more features for its iOS app.

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• From the Google Drive Blog: Handwriting Input Comes to Gmail and Google Docs.
• Apple had some big announcements yesterday.On The Next Web blog, Ben Woods gives us a list of everything we need to know.
• On the Billiongraves Blog, Lisa shares with us their new Military Information Transcription Tool which makes life a little easier for those transcribing headstone information. As a researcher, are you remembering to check Billiongraves.com for clues about your ancestor?
• Need help telling your family stories? In the Google+ Tech for Genealogy and Family History Reseachers Community, Jerry Kocis shared a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by iversity.org called The Future of Storytelling which is a free 8-week course designed to help you through the storytelling process. For more information about the course, visit iversity.org.
• Great news for those who have South African roots. Ancestry.com has purchased the now-defunct Ancestry24's South African records, and they are currently working on getting them organized and up on Ancestry.com. So stay tuned for an update on availability of those records.
• Volunteer contributors for USGenWeb, uploaded 145 files yesterday for the following U.S. states: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Did they upload a record, transcription, photos, clue, etc., that you've been needing for your research?
• Joe Beine tweeted out the updates for his site, DeathIndexes.com. The tweet embedded below gives the states that have updated information. Perhaps something you've been needing was added there yesterday?

Online Death Indexes website has updates for: CA, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MA, MI, MO, MT, NJ, NY, PA, SC http://t.co/JiqpP9SjZ9 #genealogy

— Joe Beine (@fairangels) October 22, 2013

Happy Researching!
~Caroline
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