Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
BIFHSGO Weather and Family History Poll
At Saturday’s BIFHSGO meeting, 40 attendees responded in a poll “Which of the following were significant for your family history?” Three choices were given. All that apply could be selected.
Responses were
1. The Irish Potato Famine, resulting from wet weather. 24/40 (60%)
2. The Dirty Thirties on the Prairies, caused by drought. 14/40 (35%)
3. An accident during adverse weather. 10/40 (25%)
Since its founding, Ireland has been the most popular theme for the BIFHSGO annual conference.
About 100 attendees were eligible to vote, so about 60 did not participate. Perhaps they didn’t know about weather as a factor in their family history, or weren’t inspired to participate.
Steve Jobs: the lost interview
How to stay positive when it never stops raining
Parents around the world are ditching traditional baby names
This week we’ve all been shocked by the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge. I’d selected the link above before that tragedy, but reading the names of those whose lives were taken brought it home to me:
Abel, Ezekiel, Kylie, Zoey, Emmett, Jennifer, Ticana, Shannda
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Barbara Tose, Carolyn, Dianne Brydon, Gail, Ken McKinlay, Lesley Anderson, Lynne Willoughby, Mary Pomfret, Sue, and Unknown.
June & I thoroughly enjoyed you weather talk due toʻ a technical problem. The cold summer of 1816 was the year my g.g.grandfaþher received 100 acres of land in Burgess township, Lanark Country as he was a vet of the war of 1812/14. Given the land was mostly bush, rock and ground water it must have taken work to clear it. Both of us were born in the midst of the dirty thirties. June in Sask. Ontario forme.