Last week we gave the wrong date for the November meeting. It will be held Saturday, November 12th. You don’t want to miss Judy Wright’s update on Family Tree Maker! We’ll also complete the voting process for next year’s society officers.
The November issue of the Ancient City Bulletin is ready to download. Feature stories in this issue include:
The Presidents Line
Research Toolbox: Protect Your Photos with Flickr
In the Archives: The Commons at Flickr
Member Story: Five Brothers
Are you familiar with the MyHeritage archive? This Israeli-based company offers a dynamic family history network with innovations for family tree building and historical content search that are constantly evolving to provide families with the most engaging and rewarding experience. Their recent acquisitions of World Vital Records and Geni.com for example, have enabled them to offer billions of historical records and exciting tools for collaboration to a wider and more international audience than ever before.
Our society’s membership with the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) makes it possible to be able to offer our members a 50% discount on full access to MyHeritage. This offer is offer expires November 8, 2016. With the discount, the MyHeritage Complete plan will cost $125.29 for the first year. This plan provides the following:
• Private family site with unlimited capacity • Start a new tree or import GEDCOM • Unlimited photo storage • Apps for iOS/Android smart phones and tablets • Smart Matches™ with 34 million trees • Global Name Translation™ • Record Detective™ II • Book Matching • NEW PedigreeMap™ • NEW Sun Charts™ • Private family site with unlimited capacity • Start a new tree or import GEDCOM • Unlimited photo storage • Apps for iOS/Android smart phones and tablets • Smart Matches™ with 34 million trees • Global Name Translation™ • Record Detective™ II • Book Matching • NEW PedigreeMap™ • NEW Sun Charts™
If you want to take advantage of this offer, follow this link to join.
It’s going to be an extra spooky Halloween in many areas of St. Johns County still trying to clean up after Hurricane Matthew. Fortunately we don’t have many trick or treaters in our neighborhood because we still have a lot of fallen trees and debris. If you’re out and about tonight be extra careful.
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Faire Ideas
Looking for creative ways to display your family tree? A quick search for “family tree” at Etsy reveals dozens of ideas.
You can build your own using blank charts or have an artist custom-design one for you. There are tabletop trees as well as trees that fill an entire wall. The artwork is gorgeous and the jewelry – yes jewelry – is delightful. You’ll find all kinds of eye-catching ideas as you browse through the shops and products. Whether you use these ideas as inspiration to make your own tree or choose to have one of Etsy’s creative vendors create it for you, the result will be a beautiful piece of art that will attract attention. It’s a great starting point to generate interest in family history.
Reminder for those who plan to attend our Christmas luncheon at Amici’s, menu selection and payment must be received no later than November 30th.
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