Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
Unlocking Family History with ChatGPT: AI Tools for Genealogy Research
Read to discover the prompt and the resources ChatGPT suggested for researching life in the early 1890s near the docks in London.
Charlotte Gray on Canada’s National Archives and Popular History
Yuletide R&R Wrapup
Over the holiday period, the blog carried a mix of Yuletide R&R and abbreviated family history posts. R&R posts averaged approximately 503 views per post, compared to only 115 views for the remainder. One R&R post reached over 1,000 views, the lowest of the more genealogy-oriented ones — just three.
LAC – What happened?
In case you missed it, here’s a response about the LAC collaborative project with Internet Archive Canada to digitize 80,000 public domain publications, dating from 1322 to 1920.
“There is a team diligently working away on digitizing books from the LAC collection, part of a three-year project. The decision was made to reach a critical mass before public access. We are just in the process of cleaning up some metadata before announcing and making available the digitized books – within the next month.”
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Cheryl Bowman, Christine Jackson, Dianne Brydon, Gail, Loren Fantin, Helen Billing, Teresa, Unknown.
Dianne Brydon
Wonderful chat with Charlotte Gray. I had never even seen a pic of before. Thanks John, BT