MiXaat: Apr 24, 2011

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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - 9 new articles

Another Genealogy Scam?

Megan Smolenyak wrote an article entitled "10 Things You Didn't Know About Katy Perry's Family Tree." I normally am not very interested in the family trees of celebrities. However, a postscript written by Megan at the end of the article caught my eye.

Megan points out an online blog written to by someone purporting to be genealogist to the stars. The only problem is that the person seems to have lots of errors in her (his?) research and also that there's no one of...
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Attention Canadians: Please Click "Yes"

The 2011 Canadian Census questionnaire to be filled out in May contains a question that permits you to be part of the history of Canada. If you check "yes" to this permission question, your descendants will be able to do family and genealogical research on you and your family in the future.

The amended Statistics Act permits the release of historical census records from 1911 to 2001 after 92 years. Equally important, beginning with the 2006 Census, Canadians...
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Who is the Man in the Boynton Beach Picture?

Boynton Beach, Florida, librarians are on a search. In an old piece of furniture, they found a rather large portrait of a man who could have died 150 years ago. Aside from the way the man looks, Boynton archivist Janet de Vries can only say one thing for sure. "He's dead," she states matter-of-factly.

Librarians are asking you to take a good look at him. He might be a relative. You can learn more in the following video from WPTV television:

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Circus World Collection to be Placed Online

The Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin recently hired a new archivist and a staff member to work toward making the museum's collection available online. Former Sauk County, Wisconsin, Historical Society Director Peter Shrake has been selected to lead the Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center. Baraboo business owner and circus fan Ralph D. Pierce also has been hired to digitally scan 1,377 valuable glass plate negatives taken between 1905 and 1930, which will become...
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Free Access to Ancestry.co.uk's England and Wales Marriage Indexes and Canadian Marriage Records

To celebrate the forthcoming nuptials of Kate and Wills and to offer an Easter treat, Ancestry.co.uk is making all of the site's England and Wales Marriage Indexes as well as its Canadian marriage records available free of charge until 30th April. The free access includes both the fully-searchable transcriptions and the scanned images of the record indexes. The Canadian marriage collections span over 300 years and contain 20 million records.
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Easter Sunday Calculator

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox on 21st March. This year, the date is April 24, the latest it has been since 1943. Knowing te date of Easter can be useful for genealogists. Many times, you will find an old family photograph that is cryptically labeled, "Easter 1938." What date was the photograph taken? Some religions, such as Catholic and Episcopal, did not allow marriages during Lent. By knowing the exact date for Easter (and...
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An Outage in the Cloud

I have written a number of times about the advantages of cloud computing. However, not everything is perfect. For instance, Amazon had an outage on Thursday of part of its EC2 cloud computing service. It affected many web sites hosted by Amazon EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud, including the FamilySearch forums. Actually, Amazon has a number of different cloud-based services and only part of one service was affected. The Amazon EC2 outage was significant but the Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloud...
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Stealing Credit Card Information from Wi-Fi Networks

Seattle police are investigating a group of criminals who they say have been cruising around town in a black Mercedes stealing credit card data and other information by tapping into wireless networks belonging to area businesses. The group has been at it for about five years, according to an affidavit signed by Detective Chris Hansen, a fraud investigator with the Seattle Police Department. The gang is thought to have stolen more than $750,000 worth of items, mostly from businesses although some...
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(+) Safe Surfing Wherever You Travel

NOTE: This article originally was published Oct. 31, 2010. The need for this information has now re-surfaced so I updated the article quite a bit and am re-publishing it today.

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.

I recently returned from a 10-day trip, staying in hotels in Calgary, Alberta, and in Park City, Utah. In the hotels and in various restaurants, coffee shops, and airport waiting lounges, I used wireless wi-fi networks to connect to the...
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