Sunday Sundries

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

The Coffer Illusion

Amazon Charts
The top 20 most-sold & most-read non-fiction books of the week. Some have been on the list for time immemorial! With less than 100 weeks on the chart, two of which I read (or started) are Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, Outlive by Peter Attia & Bill Gifford (my recommendation), How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes, and Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (not my recommendation.)

AI for Family History
Legacy Family Tree Webinars will let non-subscribers view Steve Little’s webinar Top Ten AI Genealogy Breakthroughs of 2024 for a few more days.
Some of the same material is also covered in episode 18 of Mark Thompson and Steve’s Family History AI Show podcast. If time is limited, start at 19:20 —  Free AI Tools: How To Get Premium AI Results For Free.

Finding Your Ancestors in Historical Newspapers
Kenneth R Marks, whose website The Ancestor Hunt is THE go-to place to find what historical newspapers exist online in the US, Canada and further afield,  has just published a new book titled “Finding Your Ancestors in Historical Newspapers: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Online Newspaper Research Results.” It’s available from Amazon.ca in paperback ( 131 pages) for $27.97 Cdn or Kindle for $9.99 Cdn.

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Thanks to this week’s contributors: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Kenneth R Marks, Nick Mcdonald, Teresa, Unknown.