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• The Southern California Genealogical Society has
  launched Oasis,
  its online library catalog featuring the society’s 26,000 books. The society’s
  library holds items from all 50 states, as well as German, Canada (French Canada),
  England and Ireland.

Over the next several months, CDs, maps, microfilms and periodicals will
be added to the catalog.

• Thanks to the Flip-Pal Cares response team, Hurricane
  Sandy survivors in Union Beach, NJ, may soon be reunited with family photos that have
  washed up on the Jersey shoreline.

Last weekend, the rescue team, volunteers and Monmouth County, NJ, Boy
Scout troops used donated Flip-Pal
mobile scanners to digitally scan thousands of photos, wedding albums and scrapbooks
collected from the shoreline, wetlands and piles of hurricane debris. All
scanned photos have been posted on Facebook for their owners to claim.

• Heredis software shares a preview
  video of the Heredis Blue Suite. In addition, Heredis is offering a 20 percent
  discount on all PC and Mac Heredis genealogy software through Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013.