Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
Ukraine war now longer than the First World War – the similarities are unsettling
An opinion piece that holds that casualties on both sides are about the same, not much larger for Russia as often stated. How can you know the truth when the contest is also in the media? Sources such as the Guardian suggest that Russian losses are probably substantially higher than Ukrainian losses.
County Wicklow Heritage
Wicklow roots? You may be amused by wandering through these pages.
GEDminer
A free, privacy-first GEDCOM analysis tool that helps family historians and genealogists understand, validate, and improve their family tree data – entirely in the browser. This is a notice; I’ve not tried it.
Latest Updates from Ancestry
| Title | Records | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Web: Manitoba, Marriage Index, 1881-1945 | 507,141 | ||
| UK, Recommendations for Honours and Awards, 1935-1944 | 178,284 | ||
| Web: Saskatchewan, Canada, Birth Index, 1875-1924 | 1,178,570 |
Full-Text Search + Research = A Win!
Another instructive post from Ken McKinlay on his Family Tree Knots blog shows how Full-Text Search started him on a journey to identifying early 19th-century ancestry in Ireland.
Funny British Sayings
You’ll be Gobsmacked, and I’m not taking the Mickey.
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Barbara May Di Mambro, Brenda Turner, Gail, Sunday Thompson, Teresa, and Unknown.
I have tried gedminer and it’s pretty cool. When I found a glitch and reported it, the developer asked me to help him diagnose the issue (he suspected what it was, just needed me to confirm it) by asking me to open my gedcom. As long as you don’t sign into the site, everything is done in your browser and no information is retained by the site. Even if you do sign in and create an account, privacy is maintained.