Yvette Hoitink

Ja, ik hou daarvan. Mijn portemonnee minder!

Mogelijk omdat ik domme spellingsfouten maak, zoals "so wie so" in plaats van "sowieso" 🤦‍♀️

So wie so al een eer als je boek met de voorkant naar voren staat. Ik heb het nooit verder geschopt dan het ruggetje 😂

Goed gezelschap!

Absolutely. It makes me more efficient.

I use it in different ways, e.g.
* As a smarter Google, where I ask it an LLM look for websites for me (e.g. find this law, find articles about this topic).
* to make records full-text searchable so I can find them and read them myself.

If records were destroyed, you also look at neighboring counties, higher jurisdictions, other record types that may have survived, including non-governmental records. NUCMC is good for that. www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/

You look at research guides e.g. FamilySearch Wiki for the county (www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Main...), the book for the relevant state in the Research in the States series published by the National Genealogical Society, websites of archives, NUCMC. And read journals to see what others used.

Thanks, that is fun. Makes me realize how many small countries I don't know, or don't think about. And I'm from a small country so you'd think I'd care!

That's one way to only encourage informed people to ask questions 😀

Barrel organs playing the Ukranian anthem outside the Russian embassy in The Hague. These things are loud!

I love it! My reason to put them online is to ensure they survive for the future. The more people use the photos while identifying the people in them, the better the chance that future generations will have access to them.

AI-generated image of a robot in the archives.

Agree.

I only ever used one AI-generated slide, but that was for a presentation about using AI for handwritten text recognition, so I thought that was appropriate.

I don't want to call them out but saw two book announcements on my feed today that both had obviously AI-generated faux-history images on the cover, so that inspired my post.

Dear authors,

If the cover of your book is clearly AI-generated, I will assume the contents are too.

Alleen als we hoog scoren, toch?

rand van het aardbevingsgebied drukt de prijs.

I'm sure I'm not the only historian who thought of this analogy.

Wat mij betreft een van de beste premiers die Nederland nooit gehad heeft.

Weaponizing DNA Against Women Last Friday, fetal remains were found in a wastewater treatment plant in Sumter County, South Carolina.  The fetus was male, 13–15 weeks old, with no signs of trauma.  At that stage, a miscarriage is considered a medical event rather than a legal death, meaning that neither a death certificate nor any formal reporting is required. Even so, the county coroner described the fetus as "stillborn"—a term under South Carolina law reserved for fetal death…

Weaponizing DNA Against Women

Last Friday, fetal remains were found in a wastewater treatment plant in Sumter County, South Carolina.  The fetus was male, 13–15 weeks old, with no signs of trauma.  At that stage, a miscarriage is considered a medical event rather than a legal death, meaning that…

Lourviso Barbosse was an enslaved boy in New Netherland. In 1639, he was killed by his enslaver, who crafted an explanation that the court accepted.

Read Lourviso's biographical sketch:
www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/new_netherla...

#BlackHistory #genealogy #NewNetherland

Meanwhile, in the UK, they arrested Prince Andrew. Accountability!

Quite common. The first enslaved people were brought there in 1627, after the Dutch captured a Portuguese ship that carried them. In the New Netherland Settlers project, we are writing biographies for everyone in the colony who was named in records between 1614 and 1664.

Urka, an enslaved woman, escaped when her enslavers would sell her away from the colony of New Netherland. The seller had her captured, and wanted to force the sale, but the court did not agree.
Read Urka's story:
www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/new_netherla...
#BlackHistory #NewNetherland #genealogy

Fantastic tip, thank you so much!

Aan het begin wel ja. Later deed ik vooral projecten voor het NA zelf (website, IT voor nieuw bezoekerscentrum, etc).

Nee, inderdaad. Ik zat toen aan de NA-kant. Aan het begin zijn er nog wel wat digitaliseringsprojecten geweest (kaarten ZH) maar daarna werd de bemoeienis met archieven rap minder.

Dat Erfgoedhuis ZH is volgens mij ooit begonnen als "wisselgeld" voor het feit dat ZH geen prov. rijksarchief had. Zij zouden de taken op zich nemen die in andere provincies de RHCs doen. Helaas op genealogisch gebied weinig van gemerkt. In alle overige provincies is het beter geregeld dan in ZH.

Exactly!

Now this would be a good usecase for AI. Let AI determine whether something is a photo or a flag/clipart, and only show hints to actual photos.

Ja inderdaad, waarschijnlijk van iemand die dacht dat dat 199* was.