Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
MyHeritage wants to know if you would be interested in them developing such a feature, that would allow you to create such videos using AI, based on your family stories?
https://blog.myheritage.com/2024/06/bringing-family-history-to-life-with-videos/
The Global Alerts Map highlights breaking news stories around the world. Filter stories by category and read the latest news updates. Zoom into any region or country of the world.
Measuring Main Streets explores what’s working, what’s not and what’s next for Canada’s main streets, empowering city builders from the neighbourhood to the national scale.
Imirce: The Kerby A. Miller Collection
Irish Emigrant Letters and Memoirs from North America
The British Library continues to suffer an outage of its website, online systems and services, including thesis access, resulting from a cyber-attack last October.
4,000 names from the Irish census of 1821 are available
Ancestry adds 26,903 records in Buckinghamshire, England, Napoleonic Register: Posse Comitatus, 1798, a record of all men in the county between the ages of 15 and 60 who could be recruited for military service. It excludes Quakers, clergymen, and those already in the military. Those ineligible to serve but who owned horses, wagons, and carts were also recorded.
Did you know
Fetherstonhaugh is pronounced Fenshaw
Ghoti is a creative respelling of the word Fish
Thanks to this week’s contributors: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Chuck Buckley, gail benjafield, Helen Gillespie, Ian Barker, Leslie Anderson, Teresa, Unknown
If the MH videos are as creepy as the animated photos, my answer is a resounding “No, thank you!”…
The poor British Library – it must be a huge task to rebuild that website. While frustrating for those of us used to accessing its many resources, as a librarian and the one in charge of content on my library’s website, I understand why it’s taking so long. Hopefully in time all services will be restored.