back at ya

Straight from border ranges

Thanks Claire. I meant no criticism of you. A broader view than the responses your post elicited. It is not a choice between payers and freeloaders. We are part a sharing community where most exchanges of information and expertise are freely volunteered. If people want to pay OK.

I'm OK with research as a business. However, 100s of 1000s willingly and happily volunteer their time to help others doing genealogy around the world. There would be little progress if we were bound to a commercial model. Shout out to the #WikiTree community.

Whiskey bottle Glendalough Pot Still from County Wicklow Ireland

Inspiration for my #familyhistory #localhistory #genealogy quest to link #DNA cousins through Co Wicklow. Today found a marriage record which links three families Byrne/Cullen/Healy atop 11 matches. I'm pretty happy and it isn't even uncorked....

#Crook !

oops #MRCA

Chipping away at a #brickwall w/ #DNA Cuz half a world away looking for #MCRA on 3rd Continent 200+ years ago on the farmlets of Glendalough Co Wicklow. #genealogy #familyhistory is amazing stuff. We are close to cracking it. Its a small world. Please don't blow it up!

Also recovers transcriptions of trained material similar but not the document submitted and falsely asserts it as a reliable response. even when challenged 3xtimes before showing that while it can do a very good transcription it does not provide one without challenge or strong initial guidance.2/2

Testing #ChatGPT with #Genealogy research tasks. Transcribe/translate handwriting from archival images. Correspondence from Downside Monastery Bath. For efficiency does not provide a direct transcription as asked but firstly #makesitup from trained content, so a generative paraphrase. 1/2

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

I'm the #DNA guy for my siblings 7 of us in #MyHeritage. Prev took mgt of 4. MyH now only allows result sharing which achieves much of the same for the other 2. I get a good view of the variability across siblings seeing cousins who are not shared by all or who are major on some minor on others.

Seeing how #ChatGPT goes on my Dom Bede Sumner brick wall. Did some nice things, used a lot of the #WikiTree profile which took me a couple of weeks to research. We? both ended up down the same barren rabbit hole with no definite answer to my question. Asked it to reformat into #Wikipedia. Messy..

Sun setting over water with boats on the water. Sun reflected off the surface. Light clouds overhead.

From the bar in Fannie Bay #Darwin NT. Not quite the stairway to heaven. More like a rough pathway with a leap of faith.

#genealogy and #familyhistory is my comfort zone. Giving me a different frame of reference for the cruel irrational nonsense that pssses for politics these days.

Builders back Mon. Weekend on Q&D #onename #oneplace study Kennedys at Glendalough Co Wicklow from RC Parish records. A manageable number. incl my 2xGGM and her parents and siblings. To understand the #brickwall and to collaborate with a DNA cousin.

No #familyhistory today builders to repair Cyclone Alfred damage not so bad.

Open letter to Ancestry: Show me the information already!

No, I don't want to do a quick compare
No I don't want *help* from an AI

I want to see your lousy indexing on the record page without you getting into my face.

I don't see how two more levels of abstraction is any *help*.

#genealogy

Joseph Sumner OSB | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Finished 1st draft profile of Fr. Bede Sumner on #WikiTree

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sumner-...

He needs parents so he is not an orphan as well as spouseless and childless.

Baptised my 2nd GGF at the Parramatta Female Factory Sydney Australia

Joseph Sumner OSB | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Did they have children baptised by Fr. Joseph 'Bede' Sumner like my GGGM? I have done a profile on him in #WikiTree

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sumner-...

Great points. I chose #wikitree after some research after Google returned a connection in there for my GM which was wrong. Joined to fix it up. Now have #CC7 of 11K. Helped a 3C's wife to digitise her paper research to preserve it. That helped.

Working on #FAN for my GGF baptised Parramatta 1838 by Rev. Joseph Sumner. #FamilyHistory. Sumner 1st catholic priest ordained in Australia. reading private corresp. of Bishop and officials on Trove Nat Lib Australia. handwritten untranscribed. Candid comnents, revealing.

Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."

If you have to cover your face to do your government kidnapping job, then you are DEFINITELY a homegrown TERRORIST.

If ICE agents in the US are ever held to account for their actions (seizing people without due process, etc.), “I was just following orders” didn’t work at the Nuremberg trials either.

So many videos are circulating of ICE agents acting with cruelty and aggression. Behavior that eerily mirrors the “domestic terrorism” they claim to oppose. No one is forcing them to act this way; it’s a choice.

When you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!”

ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.

Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou. On stage performing at the Stones Corner Festival Brisbane Queensland Australia

Just back from the #StonesCorner #Festival and the fabulous #BusbyMarou

Is Elon Musk's "tech-bro Maoism" really something new? Not at all — and it's always disastrous The 20th century was full of techno-utopian visions of the ideal future society. None of them ended well

“‘Elon Musk Thought’ shares disturbing similarities with previous totalitarian ideologies. It is, in effect, a plan for the rationalization of the American social and political order based on an unwavering faith in modern technology and AI.”

Read the story by @vodkapolitics.bsky.social:

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