#ThrowbackThursday for #Genealogy - a redditor put together a catalog of sorts for 83,000 #FamilyBibles linking to a variety of sources, from #FamilySearch to @internetarchive down to local genealogy societies.

Discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/1gp1acy/what_genealogist_doesnt_want_83000_family_bibles/

Family Bible Catalog:
https://sushibait.com

@genealogy@a.gup.pe
@genealogy

I really enjoyed Devon Noel Lee's #RootsTech talk "From Research to Draft: Rapidly Writing Your Ancestor's Story." I've already done a lot of this work with my own ancestors, but I really like her document-by-document approach and may give it a shot for some short chapters I need to revisit.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/from-research-to-draft-rapidly-writing-your-ancestors-story?lang=eng

The FamilySearch full-text search is pretty amazing, too. It's only a few limited datasets, but within a few minutes I was able to find loads of land deeds related to my fourth great grandfather. I'd say the handwriting was about 75-80% accurate, which is pretty amazing. And finding that record allowed me to add some previously unknown spouses for his children and even a set of grandchildren.

You can try it now by going to the FamilySearch Labs and turning it on. https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/

#Genchat is coming, and I am determined to make this one.

Saturday 9th March 2024. Topic is 'Research Plans'

@genchat @genealogy #Genealogy

hey, can you guys boost to help me find people with hypopituitarism and/or adrenal insufficiency, or people with careers related to these topics?

My 3 year old has a very rare condition called Pituitary Stalk Interruption Syndrome, which means most of his #pituitary gland is missing, and so he has central growth hormone, cortisol, and thyroid deficits. Last week he had an episode of severe #hypoglycemia that could have killed him, as a consequence of catching the flu. He's fine now, but I'm more than a bit shaken up. I'd love to be able to talk to, commiserate, and learn from people with similar conditions and/or expertise.

#adrenalinsufficiency #chronicillness

Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension