11 Genealogy Things You Need to Know Today, Thursday, 17 July 2014

Today's Things

1. Skitch users: There's a new handy update for Android users. I use Skitch to annotate images for tutorials like this.
2. This is interesting. I haven't noticed this happening when using Chrome, but I always have my laptop plugged in. Google's Chrome Browser is Killing Your Laptop's Battery Life. (bgr.com)
3. Okay. This has been needed for a while. iStick: the USB thumbdrive for the latest iPhones and iPads. (recode.net)
4. From Elizabeth on Genealogy Canada: a new finding aid for the Drouin Collection - Quebec Records.
5. From Angela on Choctaw Freedmen History & Legacy: Forgotten Records from the Freedmen School of the Brazil Community, Choctaw Nation.
6. More updates have been added to Joe Beine's Online Indexes for Death Records, Cemeteries and Obituaries.
7. The Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) has added Insanity Records Index and Old Age Pensions Index for Lawrence County to the members-only portion of their website.
8. Yesterday, Ancestry.com added Estate Inventories and Accounts for the US state of New York.
9. Yesterday, FamilySearch.org added record indexes and record images for Croatia, Portugal, and Quebec.
10. USGenWeb Archives volunteer contributors uploaded various types of records yesterday of various counties in the following US states: Arizona.
11. Recently, Genealogy Trails volunteer contributors uploaded various types of records for various counties in the following US states: Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.

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

• Did you miss the 10 genealogy things you needed to know yesterday?
  
• Here are 3 simple things to remember when researching online collections.
• Here are 3 places to find evidence of your ancestor's death. Can you add to it with a suggestion?

Happy Researching!
~Caroline
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