12 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Friday, 11 Apr 2014

4/11/2014

Today's Things

Was your favorite genealogy site affected by Heartbleed? Tammy Hepps of Treelines gives a Genealogy Industry Report Card on the Heartbleed Security Flaw.
For Evernote users: 5 tips on using Evernote efficiently and Evernote was not affected by Heartbleed. [And here's how to digitally organize your genealogy with Evernote.]
For OneNote users: you can now use Livescribe to handwrite your notes on your iPad. And? Right now, if you buy a Livescribe 3 Pen, you get a year's subscription to Office 365 for free. [And here's how to digitally organize your genealogy with OneNote.]

The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) has put out a call for their award nominations. [Time to tell your volunteers how much you appreciate them.]
On the FamilySearch blog, Steve shows you how to do a wildcard search in their online collections.
From Claire on Irish Genealogy News: PRONI has added lecture workshop videos to YouTube and GRONI is offline again.
Over the next 100 days, findmypast will be releasing new records every week from around the world.
The Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) has added a FREE database to their website of a Civil War diary of a Bartholomew County soldier.
From the IGS blog: the Montgomery County, IN Genealogy Club has digitized Bible Records.
Ancestry.com added a new database of County Marriages for the US state of Washington yesterday to its online collection.
FamilySearch.org added record indexes and record images yesterday for Netherlands, Wales, and the US states of California, Georgia, and New Mexico. And? They've added a new US collection of Cancelled, Relinquished, or Rejected Land Entry Case Files, 1861-1925 starting with Dodge City, Kansas. Browsable and not indexed right now.
And USGenWeb Archives volunteer contributors uploaded various types of records yesterday of various counties for the US states of California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming.

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