Month: January 2011

Transcibe your documents and mutitask with AquaSnap

In two of my blog posts of 2010 I have featured AeroSnap and FreeSnap, at these links : http://rhodesfamily.org/Blog////index.php/2010/04/23/great-little-piece-of-software-aerosnap plus http://rhodesfamily.org/Blog////index.php/2010/07/04/freesnap
I have discovered a new piece of software that takes the best of both programs and added additional features–it is called AquaSnap. On AeroSnap you can view only two windows vertically, by dragging and dropping the program window to one side of the screen. When using FreeSnap you can view up to four windows both vertically and horizontally, but you will need to use the keyboard to do so.
AquaSnap is the best of both worlds, like FreeSnap, you can view up to four windows both vertically and horizontally, and in any combination. Similar to AeroSnap, with AquaSnap you are dragging and dropping a program window to different parts of the screen, without touching the keyboard.

  
  
In my book this is a must have program for any genealogist, and mutitasker.

The following is a link to HowtoGeek.com where they have a great review and how-to overview of AquaSnap here.
Here is the program page link.

Geraldine Doyle, 86, dies; one-time factory worker inspired Rosie the Riveter and ‘We Can Do It!’ poster

Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan “We Can Do It!,” died Dec. 26 at a hospice in Lansing, Mich.

Her daughter, Stephanie Gregg, said the cause of death was complications from severe arthritis.

Read more here.

Categories: American History

Researchers: Ancient human remains found in Israel


Professor Avi Gopher from the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University holds an ancient tooth that was found at an archeological site near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said Monday they found teeth about 400,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old. Archaeologist Avi Gopher says further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he says, “this changes the whole picture of evolution.” (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).

Here is the link.

Jamestown unearths inscribed 400-year-old pipes

RICHMOND, Va. ? Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English settlement.


Read the article in it’s entirety here.

Categories: American History

Military genealogy site for the UK

Military Genealogy is the ONLY site where you can find military records of over 2 million British Armed Forces personnel exclusively cross matched with over 4000 Regiments, Bases and Ships of the British Armed Forces going back to before 1630, making your genealogy task much easier and more complete.

Here is the link.