Sunday Sundries

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

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Ancestry® Announces the Appointment of Mark Thompson as Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mark Thompson previously served an eight-year term as Director General (CEO and Editor-in-Chief) of the BBC. The appointment of a CEO for Ancestry is pending.

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

Incitement to violence is rarely explicit – here are some techniques people use to breed hate

Ottawa Historical Association Lecture: The Battle at Bramshott: The Canadian Army Medical Corps and Influenza, by Hubert Larose-Dutil. 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-battle-at-bramshott-the-canadian-army-medical-corps-and-influenza-registration-137420156387

Do we really need to walk 10,000 steps a day?
Research from Harvard Medical School has shown that, on average, approximately 4,400 steps a day is enough to significantly lower the risk of death in women. 

Ancestry Updates Find a Grave

In the regular monthly update to Find a Grave, Ancestry now shows 9,424,067 records for The UK and Ireland and  7,724,613 for Canada.

MyHeritage adds Timeline Widget
Follow the migration pattern of a Genetic Group over time — and a more detailed, better organized Top Places section— see where members of a Genetic Group have lived during a given time period.

Thanks to this week's contributors: Anonymous, BT, Chuck Buckley, Daniel Horowitz, Elizabeth Vincent, K, Sophronia, Susan, Unknown