Weekly Genealogy Picks and Calendar

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• Diane L. Richard at Upfront with NGS discusses Digital Estate Planning Laws and the genealogist.
• In an interview at ExtremeGenes Thomas MacEntee discusses PokemonGo, Augmented Reality, and the future of genealogy
• Maureen Taylor at the FamilyTreeMagazine Photo Detective provides 3 Tips to Locate Photos of Ancestral School Days
• Rachel Swarns at The New York Times discusses Georgetown University's Plans to Atone for Slave Past 
• Efraim Zuroff at the Jerusalem Post says there is Hope for Change in Lithuania, as he describes a Holocaust memorial event in Moletai, Lithuania.  In I'm Not Jewish, Lithuanian playwright, Marius Ivaškevičius, explains why he participates. (Lithuanian original)

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next two weeks

• September 4
• Immigrant's Day (Argentina)
• September 5
• Labor Day (US)
• International Day of Charity (United Nations)
• September 6
• Start of Paryushana Parava - Sept 6-15 (Jain)
• September 8
• Nativity of Virgin Mary (Christian)
• International Literacy Day (United Nations)
• September 9
• Day of the Victims of Holocaust and Racial Violence (Slovakia)
• Children's Day (Costa Rica)
• September 10
• Waqf al Arafa - Hajj Day (Islam)
• World Suicide Prevention Day (World Health Organization)
• September 11
• Start of Eid al Adha - Sept 11-14 (Islam)
• Auditor's Day (Church of Scientology)
• Grandparents Day (US & Canada)
• National Day of Service (US)
• September 12
• Saragarhi Day (Sikhism)
• September 14
• Elevation of the Life Giving Cross (Orthodox)
• September 15
• International Day of Democracy (United Nations)
• September 16
• National POW/MIA Recognition Day (US)
• International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (United Nations)
• Constitution Day (US)
• September 18
• National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (US)