SCGS Jamboree 2014

The past few days I've had the pleasure of livestreaming some of the free sessions at this years' Jamboree. This has been a great option for me, as time, transportation and financial constraints have prevented me from attending the genealogy conference. Today is the last day, but so far I've seen:

FR009 Dowered and Bound Out: Widows and Orphans Under the Law by Judy G. Russell
FR018 DNA and the Genealogical Proof Standard by Blaine T. Bettinger
FR027 Manuscript finding Aids: Locating Migrating Family Records by Family Records by Pamela Stuart-Warren
FR034 Proof Arguments How and Why by H. Warren Bittner
SA039 Researching Your Irish Ancestry Online & at Minimal Cost by Maurice Gleeson
SA053 The Internet: A Genealogist's Printing Press by Cyndi Ingle

The speakers have all been interesting, informative and humorous to varying degrees. I've taken lots of notes on their handouts, which I will find useful for researching family history--and for other computing purposes!

I'm just beginning to absorb the online handouts, but so far this morning,courtesy of SU023, which will unfortunately NOT be livestreamed this afternoon, I've found a nifty little timeline website called ourtimelines.com, which can generate timelines for anyone with a few dates and mouseclicks. I just generated the one below by using my name and birth year, although I had to change the year 2012 to 2014 for our current president, since the program hasn't added events since 2012. Nevertheless, the site does have many interesting features, including a peers list of historical figures and the ability to customize lists with added persons and events.

Custom Timeline
For Sue Olson

1953 to 2014

1946-1989 : The Cold War from before birth until age 36 1950-1954 : McCarthyism from before birth until age 1 1950-1953 : Korean War from before birth until age 0 1952-2050 : Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from before birth until after timeline 1953-1960 : Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 0 to 7 1954 : Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 1 1955 : Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 2 1955 : Warsaw pact formed at age 2 1955 : Invention of Velcro at age 2 1955 : Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 2 1956 : Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 3 1957 : Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 4 1958 : Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 5 1958 : FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 5 1958 : Integrated Circuit at age 5 1958 : US space agency (NASA) established at age 5 1959 : 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 6 1959 : Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 6 1959 : Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 6 1960 : 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 7 1960 : Laser at age 7 1960 : World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 7 1960 : Pantyhose at age 7 1961 : 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 8 1961 : First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 8 1961-1963 : John F Kennedy president of US from age 8 to 10 1961-1970 : 7th Cholera pandemic from age 8 to 17 1962-1965 : Vatican II from age 9 to 12 1962 : Cuban missile crisis at age 9 1963 : Compact Cassette Recordings at age 10 1963 : Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 10 1963 : 1st artificial heart at age 10 1963-1968 : Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 10 to 15 1964-1975 : Vietnam War from age 11 to 22 1964 : US civil rights bill at age 11 1965 : Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 12 1965 : 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 12 1966 : 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 13 1966 : 8-track tape players at age 13 1967-1970 : Nigerian civil war from age 14 to 17 1967 : Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 14 1967 : Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 14 1967 : Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 14 1967 : 1st human heart transplant at age 14 1968 : Martin Luther King assassinated at age 15 1968 : Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 15 1969 : Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 16 1969-1974 : Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 16 to 21 1969 : Woodstock Music Festival at age 16 1970 : Microprocessor at age 17 1970 : Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 17 1971 : Pakistani civil war at age 18 1971 : Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 18 1973 : The Internet at age 20 1973 : October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 20 1974 : Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 21 1974-1976 : Gerald Ford president of US from age 21 to 23 1975 : Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 22 1975 : Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 22 1975 : The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 22 1976 : American Bicentennial at age 23 1976 : Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 23 1976 : VHS Video Recordings at age 23 1976 : Television begins satellite delivery at age 23 1977-1980 : James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 24 to 27 1977 : Neutron bomb at age 24 1978 : Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 25 1978 : 1st test-tube baby at age 25 1978 : Laserdisc video recordings at age 25 1979 : Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 26 1979 : Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 26 1980 : Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 27 1981 : 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 28 1981 : 1st female supreme court justice at age 28 1981-1988 : Ronald Reagan president of US from age 28 to 35 1981 : IBM PC ships at age 28 1982 : 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 29 1983 : Compact Disks at age 30 1983 : Bluford 1st black in space at age 30 1983 : Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 30 1984 : Apple Macintosh Ships at age 31 1984 : HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 31 1985 : Amiga Computer Ships at age 32 1986 : Halley's Comet at age 33 1986 : Mir space station deployed at age 33 1986 : Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 33 1986 : Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 33 1987 : 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 34 1988 : Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 35 1989 : Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 36 1989 : Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 36 1989-1992 : George Bush president of US from age 36 to 39 1989 : Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 36 1989 : Fall of Berlin Wall at age 36 1989 : US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 36 1990 : World Wide Web at age 37 1990 : Hubble space telescope deployed at age 37 1991 : Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 38 1991-2003 : 8th Cholera pandemic from age 38 to 50 1992 : Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 39 1993 : Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 40 1993 : Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 40 1993-2000 : William Clinton president of US from age 40 to 47 1994 : South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 41 1995 : American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 42 1996 : DVD video recordings at age 43 1997 : Mars pathfinder lands at age 44 1997 : Cloning living beings at age 44 1998 : Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 45 1998 : US attacks Iraq, again at age 45 1998 : 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 45 1999 : US attacks Bosnia at age 46 2000 : '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 47 2000 : Working draft of human genome completed at age 47 2000 : Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 47 2000 : North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 47 2001 : Wikipedia goes online at age 48 2001 : X-Box console released at age 48 2001 : Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 48 2001 : Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths at age 48 2001 : US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 48 2001 : Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 48 2001 : Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 48 2001-2009 : George W. Bush president of US from age 48 to 56 2002 : Euro currency introduced at age 49 2002 : 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 49 2002 : Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 49 2003 : 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 50 2003 : Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 50 2004 : Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - dec 26 at age 51 2004 : Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 51 2004 : Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 51 2004 : 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 51 2004 : Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 51 2005 : Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 52 2005 : NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 52 2005 : Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 52 2005 : Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 52 2005 : Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 52 2005 : Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 52 2006 : Israel attacks Lebanon at age 53 2006 : Americans lose habeas corpus at age 53 2006 : Wii ships from Nintendo at age 53 2006 : PS3 ships from Sony at age 53 2007 : Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 54 2008-2010 : Global Recession from age 55 to 57 2009-2014 : Barack Obama president of USA from age 56 to 61 2009 : Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 56 2010 : Haiti earthquake - 220k dead, 300k injured at age 57 2011 : Japan 9.1 earthquake and Tsuinami - 10K dead at age 58

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Timelines courtesy of ourtimelines.com

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www.ourtimelines.com

 In less than an hour, the first livestreamed session will start.  It looks like I will be watching the 3rd service at ccvsocal.com, since it will be during the lunch break at Jamboree. I thank God that our church livestreams its worship services!

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