11 Genealogy Things You Need To Know This Morning, Tuesday, 17 Sep 2013

Genealogy Things for Tuesday, 17 Sep 2013

Time to rise and shine! Here's your morning dose of genealogy news and resources to go with your cup of coffee. {Or fruit cup and tea.}

• Debra tells us to register for SLIG before Oct 31st {early-bird registration deadline} to take courses like "American Research and Records: Focus on Families." Go check out all the details and instructors.
• On GenVines.com, Janell gives us the latest on FamilySearch.org record and indexing updates.
• MyHeritage.com tells us all about their new feature -- saving records to your tree.
• Happy Constitution Day! And happy Citizenship Day! NARA gives us their list of events for the day if you're in the DC area.
• From his British Genes Blog, Chris shares that Findmypast Ireland has added BNA Irish Newspapers.
• Chris also announces the Seventh Tranche of Colonial Records will be released for viewing in the Reading Room at the National Archives (UK).
• On their Facebook Page, Findmypast Australia & New Zealand revealed yesterday they have "released new and exciting Victoria Passenger Lists." {As opposed to the old and boring ones, I guess? ;)}
• Tuesday, Sep 24th, Daniel Horowitz will be hosting a free online webinar, "Family History Puzzle: Find the gaps in your research." Though free, you will need to register to virtually attend.
• On Techcrunch, Catherine tells us all about Bing's latest design reveal and improvements. {Are you also searching on Bing as well as Google for your ancestors? You should be.}
• Do you use PowerPoint for giving presentations? Well, MS PowerPoint will be hosting a 15-minute Webinar to show how to use the Presenter View and how it can really help you in your presentations. {I just used it in my last online presentation, and it was really helpful.}
• On Forbes.com, Tomio explains Box's latest announcement to its popular cloud storage service and how it plans to rival Google Docs/Drive. Great news for those using Box for its cloud storage and collaboration tools. 

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~Caroline

Other mornings, other things that just might flip your pancakes. {Mmm. Pancakes.}

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