11 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Friday, 25 Oct 2013

Genealogy Need to Know, Fri, 25 Oct 2013

• Are you putting citations on your documents? Doing so reduces headaches and confusion later. On her blog, Ancestoring, Michele Simmons Lewis shows us how she easily adds a digital citation to a document on her computer. If you're wanting to know how to digitally add a citation to a document when you're on-the-go with your iOS mobile device {iPhone or iPad}, here's a how-to blog post to show you how. 
• From PCWorld, Ian Paul gives us some handy privacy tips for some popular online services.

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• Lincoln Spector from PCWorld shows us how to improve the Wi-Fi signals in our house. {Nothing like laying on the couch in our living room surfing Ancestry on our iPad and finding out the Wi-Fi is "spotty" there. Certainly, a "first world" problem, but still...}
• Looking to purchase some DNA kits for the holidays? At Olive Tree Genealogy, Lorine shares with us some specials from 23andme.
• Speaking of the holidays and specials, it doesn't get any more original than this. Janet Hovorka, the Chart Chick, has a sale going on for family tree charts. She offers a free consultation and lots of options, too. But hurry. The sale is only going on for one week.
• And Chris from The British GENES Blog tells us of one more special being offered by Pen and Sword Books.
• Are you trying to find more information about your Texas ancestors? The Texas resources I've been collecting for you grew so much, it now has its own resource page.
• On the Society of Genealogists Blog, Tim Lawrence informs us SoG Data Online now has 2000 original apprenticeship indentures. Searching the index is free and images are available to SoG members.
• Ancestry.com added and updated record collections yesterday including records for South Carolina, Kentucky, and the Virgin Islands.
• USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 268 files yesterday. {268!} These uploads were for the following U.S. states: Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and West Virginia. Did they add a photo, cemetery transcription, index, record, clue, or something you've been needing for your research? 
• Want to learn how to "dig up" family stories on Findagrave.com? I have the honor of speaking at Chaparral Genealogical Society and Library's monthly meeting tomorrow morning {Saturday}, October 26th. The regular business meeting will be at 10am followed by my Findagrave.com presentation at about 10:30am. If you're nearby, come join us! We meet on the second floor of the Amegy Bank in Tomball, Texas. Here's a map.

Happy Researching!
~Caroline
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