Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
England's shortest county boundary is 20 yards (18 m) between Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. See www.blanchflower.org/tripoints/quad.html
Birmingham: see how it grows
From a blog created by the staff of The Library of Birmingham, Archives & Collections to explain the workings of their service and their collections.
ThruLines™ Hint
If you're fed up with going to AncestryDNA ThruLines and seeing the same old same old, click on the Filter drop-down. If the number in parenthesis appended to "Ancestors with new DNA matches" is zero you'll know there's nothing new.
He Drowned With His Money Belt On.
On April 26, 1867, which was a Friday, James Smith Bangs and his companion, a man only identified as “Oram,” loaded their canoe to travel the Madawaska River from Bangs’ trading store at Combermere to his home in Arnprior. About 15 miles downstream they came to the rushing spring water at the Snake Rapids, and their canoe upset.
That's the start of an article by semi-retired Ottawa lawyer Donald Macdougall in the November issue of OGS Families. OGS members can read the rest online.
Who’s killing Canadian non-fiction?
A Globe and Mail opinion piece by Kenneth Whyte.
Good governance is the missing prescription for better digital health care
10 Things Fund Managers Say and What They Actually Mean
3 comments:
I don't see this on any of my pages. click on the Filter drop-down. If the number in parenthesis appended to "Ancestors with new DNA matches" is zero you'll know there's nothing new.
There are the blue dots for matches I haven't looked at. Is that what you mean?
You're perhaps seeing something I don't as I have nothing new (zero in the parenthesis).
Re; The Kenneth Whyte column. I have had numerous artist and NF authors read it and their comments about the Canada Council are scathing. I had no idea. One said the article doesn't go far enough, and most artists and writers no longer trust the Canada Council to assist them in any way.
Gail B
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