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Week 1 Results: VGA Book Club Cemetery Symbol Contest
Here are the top 3 cemetery symbols that have been submitted so far in our VGA July 2022 Contest: Hand Pointing Up – usually indicates that the soul has risen to the heavens Tree Stone – often a motif for members of the Woodmen of the World Book – an…
Shaky Leaf Syndrome: Using Website Generated Hints More Effectively by Sara Cochran
Webinar: Shaky Leaf Syndrome: Using Website Generated Hints More EffectivelySpeaker: Sara CochranWhen: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 8:00pm Eastern Program Description:Indexing, optical character recognition, and computer algorithms make finding obscure records about our families easier than ever! Unfortunately, computers can’t distinguish between people of the same name who lived in different places or…
VGA Speaker: Eleanor Brinsko
Enjoy this quick interview with Eleanor Brinsko: To learn more about Eleanor’s VGA program, click here: https://virtualgenealogy.org/2022/07/04/google-workspace-for-genealogical-research-by-eleanor-brinsko/ Find Eleanor at: Website: https://carlongenealogy.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarlonGenealogy Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-brinsko
VGA BDay Presentation: “Postcard Clues” by M. Diane Rogers
Thank you so much to Diane Rogers for sharing this presentation with VGA to help celebrate VGA’s 4th birthday. Kind people like her helped to make the birthday party possible! Please visit Diane’s website: https://canadagenealogy.blogspot.com/
VGA July 2022 Contest
VGA Book Club is currently reading “Stories in Stone” by Douglas Keister. For fun, go to your favorite cemeteries (online or in-person) and look through the headstones for examples of symbols found in the “Stories in Stone” book. To enter, all you have to do is complete the quick form…