Durham-Orange Genealogical Society

Computer Special Interest Group

(D-OGS CIG)

Summary – October 11, 2008

What’s New?

Shades of the Departed

http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/

Windows Search

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx

What if Google Extended to Public Records?

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/09/29/what-if-googles-mission-extended-public-records

Live Roots

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Genealogy+Resource+Confusion+New+Online+Directory+Promises+Help.aspx

My Week in the Computing Cloud

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330689,00.asp

The Darker Side of Cloud Computing

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330921,00.asp

USCIS Establishes Genealogy Program

http://www.visapro.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=947&z=21

Live Search

http://www.live.com/

This is your Life

http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE49905C20081010

 

Web sites worth visiting:

Genealogy Software Reviews

http://www.gensoftreviews.com/index.php?paged=2

NC LIVE

http://www.nclive.org/training/training.phtml

English Handwriting 1500 – 1700 [See following article]

www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/index.html
http://www.tribstar.com/history/local_story_264172414.html

U-M at forefront of new era in publishing

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6735

Tracing your own family roots – Maureen Taylor

http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/26455893/

Photo Detective Interview RootsTV

http://rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences.php?bctid=1794986858

National Punctuation Day

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

Organizing Your Genealogy

http://elysesgenes.blogspot.com/2008/09/organizing-your-genealogy.html

NC Maps

http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/ncmaps/

All The Top

http://alltop.com/

PA-Roots

http://www.pa-roots.com/index.html

British Colonial Slave Records

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/04/28/Worldandnation/Web_site_to_post_Brit.shtml

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/British+Colonial+Slave+Records+Cover+1812+To+1834.aspx

 

We spent most of our time discussing the above topics as well as some individuals’ research targets, so we are going to continue with the Family History CD topic in November. So bring some photos, files, family group sheets or pedigrees and we will arrange them in an attractive way to put on a CD to share.

 

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