7 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Sunday, 1 Dec 2013

12/1/2013

Today's Things

Registration is now open for the National Genealogical Society's 2014 Conference which will be held in Richmond, Virginia. [I heard recently all the hotels are booked? If so, conferences need to be marketing their registrations/conferences sooner then or pick venues with more hotels.]
Rootstech has a new website design. Rootstech 2014 is coming up quick with it being held February 6th - 8th in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the tech part, Developer Day, being held on February 5th. However, there are more tech-related workshops for researchers this year being conducted throughout the main conference -- mostly for beginners. [Availability of hotels? A couple are sold out. Not sure about the rest but there are smaller hotels nearby. Not sure about their availability.]

According to Cult of Mac, iTranslate is now available for the iPad. What's cool about this app is its text-to-speech capabilities and with an in-app upgrade, you can get Siri voice recognition & other features. You can read more about iTranslate on their website, too.
Have you been going over your data plan while looking for your ancestors on your mobile device? On Digital Trends, Simon Hill gives us some tips on how to reduce our data usage on Android or iOS.
Here are this week's upcoming genealogy webinars, chats, and hangouts that are listed on the Geneawebinars Calendar. [There are others that occur, but they have not been contributed to the calendar by independent parties.]
Hate scanning, but need to get it done? Me too. I much prefer researching and writing and just about anything to scanning. So I started a virtual scanning group on Facebook so I could have virtual support and give virtual support to others. Basically, it's about accountability. You're welcome to join us today at 3pm CT for Sunday ScanDay. With one hour a week, we got this.
And yesterday USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 138 files for various counties in the following US states: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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