Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Cloudy with a chance of worries
https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281612426463385
Ancestry updated England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2024, now with 7,674,312 entries, and Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2024
with 953,672 entries
MyHeritage updated the United Kingdom, Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com on 25 July to contain 787,038,681 items.
The Family History AI Show: Episode 29
Co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little explore Perplexity’s groundbreaking Comet browser. It brings AI directly to web pages and can autonomously navigate sites to collect genealogical data. Mark sees it as a significant (landmark) advance. However, Comet is currently available to Perplexity Max subscribers ($200 per month), select Perplexity Pro subscribers ($20 per month), and by invitation as the extensive waiting list is processed. There’s much more in this episode.
Folk Tales Books from the History Press
The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New tellings of half-forgotten stories from England’s 39 Historic Counties
The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales
Folklore of Wales
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
The Old Farmer’s Almanac for July
This July, the mean temperature in Ottawa was 22.2 °C; the OFA prediction was 20°C, which is average.
FAIL
The OFA predicted 155 mm of total precipitation at Ottawa. The actual was 48.0 mm.
FAIL
I’ve thrown the whole thing in the garbage, despite there being some interesting reading in it.
Curious Cures
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts are now accessible from Cambridge University Libraries.
Thanks to the following for comments and tips: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Barbara Tose, Brenda Turner, Bryan Cook, Christine Jackson, Chuck Buckley, Donna, Gail, Lois Logan, Teresa, Unknown.
