7 Genealogy Things You Need To Know This Morning, Wednesday, 9 Oct 2013

Find your family story.

10/9/2013

Genealogy Need To Know, Wed, 9 Oct 2013

Got your cuppa {Me? I have a mugga coffee. ;) }?

On the Irish Roots Cafe Blog, Mike shares he's finally taking the plunge with DNA and tells us about the Irish Families DNA project at FamilyTreeDNA.com which already has over 700 members. If you have Irish ancestry, have you thought about joining this Irish Families DNA project?
Have old and "grubby" negatives?The Family Curator shares with us whether cleaning them is the best thing to do.
From the PCWorld.com Blog, Ian Paul gives us 3 ways to be more secure online.
Do you Skype with your family members or perhaps distant cousins about your family history research?Mariella Moon from Engadget tells us Android users now have an updated Skype app with some great new features to make keeping in touch a better experience. {Now, if we could just Skype our ancestors and ask them all those questions we'd like answers to, we'd be happy campers, no?}

From The Next Web Blog, Nick Summers tells us Flickr is giving Google+ Photos a run for their money now that they've added automatic uploads. I use both photo cloud services and have auto-upload enabled on my Google+ Photos. What a relief it is to know that something very bad could happen to my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and my pics are all backed up automatically. I, of course, will be enabling Flickr's new auto-upload as well. One can never be too safe with family photos taken on the smartphone, eh?
Hap tip to Linda McCauley for pointing this next blog post out by Linda Woodward Geiger who shares with us tips on how to access online images on the Georgia Archives Virtual Vault site. {Handy and very dandy.}
Speaking of access and research, 3 new collections were added to Ancestry.com from 3 different countries including the U.S. Not only that, but 2 already existing collections for 2 countries including the U.S. were updated on Ancestry as well. Did they add something you've been needing for your research?