Thursday Tidbits

CONTENTS
Tonight: OGS Ottawa Branch Monthly Meeting
Legislative Acts and Ontario Genealogy
LAC Co-Lab Update for December
United States, Deceased Veteran Benefit Claims
AI Astrology

Tonight: OGS Ottawa Branch Monthly Meeting

7 pm: British Home Children to Canada – Three Sisters from Kensington and Chelsea Union (Ottawa), by Gloria Tubman
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/ottawa-branch-presentation-details-tbd-2025-01-23/

Legislative Acts and Ontario Genealogy

The latest blog post from Ken McKinlay.

Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England

The latest blog post from TNA.

LAC Co-Lab Update for December

There are currently 4,095 items in LAC’s Collection Search identified as Co-Lab-only contributions, down from 4,096 in December.

Here is the progress on the challenges since December. Three shows progress.

Games of the XXI Olympiad, Montréal 1976 remains at 80.8% complete.

Treaty 9, with 27 images, remains 3.7% complete.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary is 69.4% complete, up from  66.1%.

Expo67 is 5.1% complete, down from 6.8%.

Summiting Mount Logan in 1925: Fred Lambart’s personal account of the treacherous climb and descent of the highest peak in Canada remains 13.4% complete.

Women in the War remains 1.4% complete.

Arthur Lismer’s Children’s Art Classes remains <1% complete.

John Freemont Smith, RG10, Volume number: 4079 remains 88.5% complete.

Molly Lamb Bobakis 95.1% complete, up from 94.7%.

Diary of François-Hyacinthe Séguin remains 99% complete.

George Mully: moments in Indigenous communities remains 0% complete.

Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War remains 98.5% complete.

Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 remains 94.7% complete.

Legendary Train Robber and Prison Escapee Bill Mineris 99.5% complete, up from 99%.

Japanese-Canadians: Second World War remains 2.8% complete.

Projects that remain 100% complete are no longer reported here.

United States, Deceased Veteran Benefit Claims

From MyHeritage, records from the year 1800 onwards for all US military branches, typically including the veteran’s name, date of birth, date of death, and enlistment and discharge dates. Known as the Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) availability is through the efforts of  Reclaim the Records. Beware of transcription errors, as there are no original record images. I doubt Ray A. Jones, born 1840, served between 1917 and 1945.

AI Astrology

Did you know you can ask Open Ai’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini to cast astrological birth charts. Just give it date of birth, time of birth and place of birth. They provide different levels of detail. For amusement only!