Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
Canada risks losing its history
An opinion column by Bill Waiser in the Globe and Mail.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e3ebd6cfab0cdb3f9fd0a58305f577f561cde2e1ed1276813073e57e7d2f9e5b/SE3ECBISKVFZHGBZ6B3RXZTKKE/
Scribe AI available on the MyHeritage mobile app
TheGenealogist update
The MapExplorer™ tool now includes parish record pins for over 6,000 churches, historic church images and new surname heatmap visualizations.
Ancestral Pride.
Published in the New(market) Era, Friday 18 February 1857.
Of all the notable things on earth,
The queerest thing is pride of birth,
Among our “fierce democracy!”
A bridge across a hundred years,
Without a prop to save’t from sneers—
Not even a couple of rotten piers—
A thing for laughter, flings and jeers,
Is American aristocracy!
Depend upon it, snobish friend,
Your family thread you can’t ascend,
Without good reason to apprehend
You may find it waxed on t’other end
By some plebeian vocation!
Or worse than that, your boasted line,
May end in loop of stronger twine,
That plagued some near relation.
Because ye flourish in worldly affairs,
Do not be haughty and put on airs,
With insolvent pride of station.
Don’t be proud and turn up your nose
At poorer people in plainer clothes,
But learn, for the sake of the mind’s repose
That all proud flesh, wherever it grows,
Is subject to irritation.
Robot Table Tennis
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Barbara May Di Mambro, Denis Brassard, Julia, Gail, Sylvia Smith, Teresa, Unknown.
