Sue Hamer

This week’s events:

7th October: Swansea branch AGM (Civic Centre, 1.45pm), followed by a talk at 2pm: Jeff Phillips - history of transport in Swansea

7th October: Cardiff branch AGM (online, 7pm), followed by a talk at 7.30pm:
Dr Diane Brook - J Barry Davies, Glamorgan Genealogist

We’ll be at Kempton Park this Saturday (4th October) for The Family History Show. Visit our stand to find out more about the society, ask our volunteers for help with your research, or just stop by to say hello! thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

It was great to welcome back members of the Cardiff and Vale Branch of Glamorgan Family History Society to the Archives today. This month we looked at records relating to shops and shopping.

Hitler, Stalin, and Mr Jones - the story of a true Welsh hero Christopher Evans There are many unsung heroes throughout Welsh history. People who have fought for human rights, struggled against oppression and repression, challenged those in power, and championed...

#OnThisDay in 1935 the heroic Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was murdered just a day before his 30th birthday. He exposed the atrocities of the Holodomor famine in the #Ukraine. How we could do with journalists like him today! A piece I wrote a while back: nation.cymru/culture/hitl...

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#SummerSolstice
British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

So amazing to be holding my book at last ❤️🥲❤️

this is true at times

Found a fake record on Ancestry (AI strikes again?). It's based on an 1855 Scottish death register entry, but the "deceased" is actually one of the listed living children, and there seems to be a 'death record' for everyone mentioned on the original 😡 #genealogy #ScottishGenealogy #GenHour

UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years

Absolutely brilliant news. It was so important that the govt organised British re-entry to Horizon: UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Has it really been only ten years?

"This feature has become very popular among people who have no imagination" is perhaps one of the best and most damning things you can say about people who use gen-AI to regurgitate artbarf as if it's anything other than digital particleboard.

People pushing unwanted tech like AI on the public today really conveniently forget about and gloss over the times in history when forced tech pushes failed miserably

In withering fairness to many of our modern ill-fitting technology pushers, they have an absolutely garbage knowledge of history, as it wasn't a subject they ever put any effort into, so there was nothing to forget, and no lessons learned to avoid. It's why crypto sped run scams from the 1800s.

Poster advertising event, text reads as follows: GLAMORGAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluol Morgannwg 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1974 - 2024 5th April 2025 An event to celebrate to 50th Anniversary of the Society At Aberkenfig Resource Centre, Bridgend 11am - 1pm - ARC is open for Research 1pm - 3pm Afternoon Tea Event Celebration To Include: Posters, Short talks, Refreshments, & A chance to catch up with members, old & new For information & Directions: www.glamfhs.org.uk

Join us at the ARC in Bridgend on Saturday 5th April to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Short talks: History and Future of the Society, Glamorgan Archives Coal Mining Exhibition, Life in the Garw Valley. There will also be 50th anniversary cake! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan #Bridgend

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Thank you, dioch, to those members that attended this afternoon's AGM. Apologies that we had to postpone the talk due to the last minute unavailability of our speaker. #GlamorganFHS

We have been advising our volunteers about thus increase in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Plans with no.optipn to opt out of AI Copilot add in together with additional monthly charges if you use Copilot more than a certain amount!

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.

(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).

1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.

Posed staff safety photo, showing a railwayman riding on a brake stick, resting on a brake lever, at risk of falling off. 1 of 2 paired images.

Continuing our recent time in #Wales: we're off to #Cardiff on Saturday 15 Feb, to talk to the Welsh Railways Research Circle:

'Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project & railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939.

All welcome:

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And so the last site for this series of #diggingforbritain - our Rat Island. It’s a constant effort site as the remains of these poor people keep eroding. This man had an altogether darker tale we are still investigating #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

#DrawingDiggingforBritain #LlanilttudFawr

Fascinating meeting at #GlamorganArchives yesterday, examples of Barry and Cardiff records #GlamorganFHS including 1622 Evans Mouse survey of Barry Manor which included cottage eventually tenanted by my 7x gt grandmother the notorious witch Anne Richmond Jenkins.

Common sense has prevailed for once. Phew!

The new series of #diggingforbritain starts tomorrow! So sharpen your pencils, get your needles threaded, charge your batteries and join us for #drawingdiggingforbritain let’s see what inspires you from the year’s #archaeology. @raretelevision.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

My offering for episode 1. The moment of discovery. The first light on a face for over a thousand years. Gives me goosebumps #drawingdiggingforbritain @richardosgood.bsky.social

This title if the comic is ‘Googling Stuff…’ The comic shows two columns: on the left is “Then” showing search results with one thing listed as “the thing you want” On the right column is ‘Now’ - also showing search results but in this case it’s a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need: AI TAKING A WILD STAB AT IT WITH SOME BLATANT MISINFORMATION SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT PEOPLE ALSO ASK VIEW PRODUCTS And then right at the bottom just off screen is ‘the thing you want’

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

The 1921 England & Wales Census will be available on Ancestry during the first half of 2025.

page from a black and white photo album with nine photos of trains arriving in Albert, marked Août 1914

The Somme Archives have digitized some wonderful civilian photo albums. This one belonged to Yvonne Lelong and Raymond Rameil of Amiens.

It has many images of the Somme during the FWW, like this page of French and British soldiers arriving in Albert in August 1914

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