Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Take a Media Vacation
Close your eyes and imagine you’ve travelled to a holiday destination. Do it without leaving home — skip the journey. Enhance the experience by listening to a local radio station via Radio Garden. There’s also TV Garden if you’d rather keep your eyes open.
Finding and Navigating the Old Maps of Ireland.
Ancestry updates Web: Quebec, Canada, Marriage Contract Index, 1761-1941 (in French). Now with 71,094 records.
GLAM Makeover at AO
See also https://ischool.utoronto.ca/news/a-glam-makeover-for-the-archives-of-ontario/.
This initiative appears to involve presenting existing finding aids in a new visual graph format rather than any full-text digitization of records.
Thanks to Ann Burns, Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Chuck B., Teresa, and Unknown for this week’s contributions.
