June – Resources
Resources for Census Records
www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/U._S._Census_Records_Class_Handout
www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Census
www.ancestry.com/search/categories/usfedcen/
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Free-Research-Guides (scroll down to Census for four downloads)
A census record may be the only record available for documenting the events of a person’s life, when other records do not exist. A census can extend your pedigree further back and add missing family members. There is a high probability of finding the person for whom you are searching in a census since about 90% of U.S. citizens are listed in the censuses.
Additional census resources can be found in the CVGS June Genealogist (Page 3)
Protect Your Passwords: FREE – Check if your email, password, or phone number is in a data breach. I found these two:
EG: Ancestry: RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The Nov 2015 breach was found in late 2017. Almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords were taken.
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/rootsweb-security-update/
EG: MyHeritage: Files of its now-for-sale database were taken in October 2017, it told the world in 2018. Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords
Actions to take:
- Change your passwords at all sites you use.
- Create strong, unique passwords, save in your web browser or password manager.
- Use passwords of 14+ letters & numbers & special characters.
- Use a second/multi step verification (phone / email code) whenever possible.
It takes a hacker 2 seconds to crack a 7-letter password. It takes 730 years to crack a 14-letter password!
https://random-ize.com/how-long-to-hack-pass/
Why you need 14+ letter Passwords