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The following announcement was written by Ancestry.com:
PROVO, Utah, July 2, 2012 -- Ancestry.com (Nasdaq:ACOM), the world's largest online family history resource, has added its two-millionth active current subscriber. The milestone recently was reached when Yvonne Ocheltree, of Collierville, Tenn., signed up to solve a long-standing family mystery about the secret identity of her maternal great-grandfather. With two million active paid subscribers, Ancestry.com, which launched in 1996, is one of the world's most popular paid-subscription resources.
To mark the achievement, Ancestry.com has given Ms. Ocheltree a complimentary lifetime subscription to continue her research in a family history archive that now includes more than 10 billion historic records and images from more than 40 countries, dating back to 1270 A.D.
The following announcement was written by the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) and the Center for Family History and Genealogy:
The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) and the Center for Family History and Genealogy invite you to submit lecture proposals for the upcoming conference, “Becoming an Excellent Genealogist.”
The conference will be held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah on October 19-20, 2012.
The folks at Geni.com have created an infographic for Independence Day that displays a lot of fun facts to help mark the holiday. For instance, do you know which state has the most patriotic place names? This infographic will tell you. It can be found at http://www.geni.com/blog/independence-day-by-the-numbers-375769.html.
On 2 July 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted in favor of independence from Great Britain. Two days later, the body got around to approving a public announcement of its decision. Since that Declaration had the current date in large letters at the top of the document, the fourth of July has always been celebrated in the press and eventually became a national holiday. However, the date of the vote declaring independence was July 2, not July 4.
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
I recently found a great online service that will appeal to anyone who wishes to simplify their financial record keeping. After all, who enjoys handling paperwork?
Bills and financial statements typically arrive in the mail, although many companies these days have "gone green" and offer the same documents electronically. I am a big fan of electronic delivery of all documents. I like to avoid paper. Instead, I prefer to save all documents on my disk's hard drive, along with plenty of backups for security purposes. Since I often spend months in my motor home without seeing the mailman, I find that deliveries of paper documents often are delayed by months. As a result, some paper documents become lost or perhaps were never delivered to me at all.
Another difficulty I run into is, how can I retrieve a year-old statement from an account I closed six months ago?
The Revolutionary War started with the battle between British troops and local Massachusetts militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775. It ended eight years later with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. If you have been able to trace your ancestry in America back to those years, you have an excellent chance of finding at least one ancestor who had some type of service related to the Revolutionary War effort.
In fact, your ancestor may have been a Patriot or a Loyalist. We don't celebrate the efforts of Loyalists very much in the United States, but go north to Canada and you will find that Loyalists are well documented and honored as heroes. They are especially honored for their contribution to the development of Canada. Perhaps one Canadian in ten has a Loyalist ancestor, and many people with English blood who live elsewhere – in the United States, in commonwealth countries such as Australia and New Zealand, or in nearly any other country round the world – are also of Loyalist descent. Visit the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada web site at http://www.uelac.org/ for more information.
Hurricane-like storms knocked an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, offline Friday night, and a chunk of the Internet felt it. The incident temporarily cut off a number of popular internet services, including Netflix, Pinterest, Heroku, and Instagram.
I have written often about the advantages of cloud computing, including lots of redundancy and high uptimes, so this news is especially interesting. In theory, big outages like this aren’t supposed to happen. Amazon is supposed to keep the data centers up and running all the time. In fact, Amazon has done a good job of keeping things running, but not a perfect job. Friday's outage proves that even Amazon has a few chinks left in the armor.
The Scottish Catholic Archives (SCA) at Columba House in Edinburgh has been closed without warning amidst claims of "mis-management and indifference." Whatever the causes, the primary problem was that there was no one left to take care of the place. The archives were unmanned.
The Scottish Catholic Archives contain more than a million documents dating back 800 years, including letters from Mary Queen of Scots and papers relating to Oscar Wilde.
Details may be found in an article in the Sunday Herald at http://goo.gl/4DjHg.
In rural Ohio, trustees in Poland Township received a proposal this year to lease cemetery mineral rights for $140,000, plus 16 percent of any royalties, for any oil and gas. Similar offers followed at two other area cemeteries.
Opponents say cemeteries shouldn't be disturbed by drilling which will be noisy, smelly and unsightly. Defenders say the drilling is too deep to cause such problems and can generate revenue to enhance the grounds.
Today is Canada's 145th birthday. What better way to spend the day than to look at some of the Canadian National Archives' collection of historic photos? The images have been added to Flickr so that you can comment, tag and share them easily.
The CO 1069 series is a diverse collection of images with a rich variety of content. In many instances, The National Archives personnel know little about the people or contents of the photographs and this is one of the reasons why the images have been published online. The National Archives is asking people to comment and share their knowledge.
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