Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
BBC WDYTYA on YouTube
The YouTube algorithm surfaced some classics from the long-running BBC series, mostly older episodes (when they were featuring people I’d heard of).
Judy Dench
Nigella Lawson
David Tennant
Jeremy Irons
Stephen Fry
Kate Winslet
The new AI inflection point
Rather than writing computer code, the programmer’s task has become reviewing code written by AI. Will the same thing happen with family history research? Would you go back to the days, not so long ago, when your computer didn’t serve up hints about related resources? That’s AI.
The Cyberattack That Exposed the Fragility of Digital Heritage
About the British Library ransomware attack.
MyHeritage adds United Kingdom, British Army Lists, 1839-1946
Ancestry Find A Grave Updates
On 20 February Ancestry reported:
UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current had been updated to 24,458,579 records, up from 23,818,332 at the end of 2025.
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Christine Jackson, Dawn Kelly, Dianne Brydon, Gail, Grant, Mary Grace Kosta, Sue Lambeth, Terry Mulcahy and Unknown.
