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Wake Genealogy Watch, Fall 2020 available now

The Fall 2020 Issue (Vol. 4, Issue 1) of our award winning newsletter, Wake Genealogy Watch, is now available online for reading or download. WGW is free for all, members and followers alike. You can visit the WCGS website or access through this link - Wake Genealogy Watch, Fall 2020   This issue contains the following topics: Ted Bainbridge offers companion articles about revisiting your research and using original documents to get the most out of your research.  Meet our new Board Members. Olivia Raney Family History Library renovation sneak peek. Barbara McGeachy profiles two valuable local learning resources - Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Raleigh Senior Tech Ed Cynthia Gage digs deeper into advanced newspaper research with some search strategies that will find gems in the press to add to your ancestor's story  Details on a recent gift of genealogy books to Thornton Library. A curated list of gene...
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Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Virtual Conference Oct. 14 - 17, 2020

I see a lot of speakers on the AAHGS 2020 Virtual Conference roster that I recognize including: Desi Campbell Crista Cowan Nicka Smith Renate Yarborough Sanders  and our own Diane Richard There are so many more. Check out the speaker list here . Agenda is here . Registration page here . Early Registration ends Aug. 15,2020. Return to the WakeCoGen Website
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Oy! Security breaches that need your attention

It has been a tough couple days security wise in the genealogy world. Do your due diligence. Make sure you change/have secure passwords and attend to any other changes you need to make. A security vulnerability in the Mackiev product, Family Tree Maker, has been reported and is summerized in a report at Infosecurity Magazine. View report here . A melicious attack has occurred at Gedmatch this past weekend. The site has been up and down since the discovery and is currently set in a "down for maintenance" state. This statement was publisned on the Gedmatch Facebook page on Monday. "On the morning of July 19, GEDmatch experienced a security breach orchestrated through a sophisticated attack on one of our servers via an existing user account. We became aware of the situation a short time later  and immediately took the site down. As a result of this breach, all user permissions were reset, making all profiles visible to all users. This was the case for approximately 3 h...
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Wake County Genealogical Society Virtual Meetings and Membership Special Offer

The Wake County Genealogical Society has decided to have only virtual meetings for the remainder of 2020!   If you have been thinking about joining, now is the time so you don't miss a single meeting.  And as a bonus, if you join before the end of August your new membership will run until the end of our next membership year, August 31, 2021.  Of course you will also have access to all the other membership benefits !  Check out our WCGS events calendar for the rest of the year. Join now! Return to the WakeCoGen Website
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