Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
AI turns old photos into ‘motion pictures’
From the BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq5wx27gne1o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4y98vykro
There are a variety of apps and websites to be found where you can do the same thing with your photos. Here’s advice from ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/share/6814e5d5-8338-8012-848f-4bae43fbf8ed
Eating in the UK in the Fifties.
Findmypast Weekly Update
Additions this week are Commonwealth War Grave Commission records: 2,474 images and transcriptions for Germany, 2,178 for Cyprus, and 1,561 for Greece.
The 55,867 newspaper pages added this week, none for Est Anglia, including six new titles and 32 existing publications that have been updated.
New titles
Hunts Guardian from 1871-1872 and 1874-1884
Leeds Daily News from 1889 and 1898
Lytham Times from 1870, 1880-1888, 1900-1909, 1920-1929 and 1932-1949
Norwood Press and Dulwich Advertiser from 1918-1929
Oldham Chronicle from 1873 and 1897
South Durham Herald from 1883-1891
Updated titles
Banffshire Journal, 1948-1949
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser, 1895, 1900-1901, 1904 and 1908
Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1995
Bridgnorth Journal, 1998
Brighton Gazette, 1914-1917
Buxton Herald, 1891 and 1948
Canterbury Journal, 1913-1919
Crystal Palace District Times & Advertiser, 1896
Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle, 1882, 1884-1886 and 1897
Dudley & District Chronicle, 1994
Dundee Weekly News, 2002
Isle of Man Daily Times, 1964-1965
Kilkenny Moderator, 1904 and 1907
Leicester Chronicle, 1923
Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser, 1889-1896, 1899-1903, 1915-1919, 1926-1938, 1951 and 1953-1957
Lurgan Mail, 1985
Midland Counties Express, 1870, 1875, 1877, 1889 and 1899
Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser, 1920-1921
Perthshire Courier, 1927-1928
Prestatyn Weekly, 1938-1939
Sandwell Chronicle, 1994, 1998
Scarborough Mercury, 1856, 1874, 1878 and 1889
Scunthorpe Star, 1987
Shoreditch Observer, 1870-1875
Shoreham Herald, 1992
Tenbury Wells Advertiser, 1818, 1913 and 1915-1917
Trinidad Royal Gazette, 1900-1903
Waterford Standard, 1912-1917, 1919 and 1927
Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer 1891, 1910-1911 and 1913-1914
Whitehaven News, 1882, 1886-1888, 1902-1910, 1912 and 1915-1918
Wolverton Express, 1965
Workington Star, 1916, 1918
Bees, fish and plants show how climate change’s accelerating pace is disrupting nature in 2 key ways
Discounts
FamilyTreeDNA has a Mother’s Day sale.
So does AncestryDNA until 11 May
Until 7 May Legacy Family Tree Webinars is available for 50% off a full year of genealogy education .. just $25 US! https://familytreewebinars.com/
Thanks this week to Anonymous, Sue Lambeth, Teresa, Unknown.
