View-Master Toys are Going Virtual Reality

View-Master Toys are Going Virtual Reality

Did you have a View-Master toy as a kid? Using these stereoscopic viewers (long before kids had cameras of their own), children could see pictures of any topic from Disney to dinosaurs to the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. According to a collector, whose image is...

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Walka walka walka: New Google PAC-Maps!

Walka walka walka: New Google PAC-Maps!

It may not help with genealogy, but Google Maps just got a lot more fun! Yep, it's PAC-Maps, and with this latest update you can find where NOT to go! Google has added imagery of "dangerous virtual beings, starting with Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde. When navigating...

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Recent Ohio Adoption Records Now Open

Recent Ohio Adoption Records Now Open

Recently Genealogy Gems Premium member Katharine Ott wrote in this with newsworthy gem: "Recent adoption records are being released in Ohio. Such an exciting time for those adoptees yearning to connect with their bloodlines! Before the bill took effect, they allowed...

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We Dig These Gems! New Genealogy Records Online

We Dig These Gems! New Genealogy Records Online

We learn about great new genealogy records online every week! On Fridays we round up a few for you. Watch for databases and documents that your ancestors might appear in–and get inspired by the types of records that may be out there for your family, waiting for you to...

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: NEW Video Class

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: NEW Video Class

If your family lived in the U.S. between the late 1800s to mid-1900s, you should look for their home on Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. The Sanborn Map Company published maps from 1867 to 1970 to evaluate fire insurance liability in urban areas. The maps are detailed...

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DNA Health Testing Back on U.S. Horizon for 23andMe

DNA Health Testing Back on U.S. Horizon for 23andMe

A direct-to-consumer genetic test, the first of its kind to be approved in the U.S., may become available through 23andMe, according to letters recently received by 23andMe customers. The FDA-approved test is designed to check to see if you are a carrier for Bloom...

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Evernote for Android Gets a New Clean Look

Evernote for Android Gets a New Clean Look

Are you using Evernote for genealogy and an Android user? Then you'll be interested the pretty substantial update that Evernote for Android just got! Last year's Evernote 6 for Android has been updated to meet Google's new design specs for Android. A recent Evernote...

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Share World War I Family History

Share World War I Family History

To commemorate the centennial of the First World War, and to mark the last full month of the exhibition Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture, the Wolfsonian at Florida International University (FIU) created a special Tumblr for sharing family...

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Google: A Noun. A Verb. A Way of Life

Google: A Noun. A Verb. A Way of Life

Who Googles? How often? How is that changing? Keep reading to see a new infographic with some fabulous statistics--and you're in it. If you're reading this post, you're among the 30% of the world's population who uses the internet. But where else do you show up below?...

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How to Make Google Cache Pay Off in Your Genealogy Research

How to Make Google Cache Pay Off in Your Genealogy Research

What do you do when you Google something, click on a search result URL, and it says "page not found," or "error?" Debbie recently discovered the answer in her new copy of the newly revised and updated The Genealogist's Google Toolbox (2nd edition). She wrote to us: "I...

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A Free Search Tool for U.S. Public Records

A Free Search Tool for U.S. Public Records

Do you ever get frustrated trying to track down vital and court records for your U.S. ancestors? Sure, most of these records (not all) were originally kept by county offices. But where are they today? Have they come online? What privacy policies block access? Where do...

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