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This St Patrick’s Day Weekend, Discover Brand New Irish Records and Over 174,000 Historical Newspaper Pages

The  following announcement was written by the folks at Findmypast: We’re honouring Irish history this St Patrick’s Day weekend. If you’ve got roots in the Emerald Isle, you may find a familiar name or two amongst this week’s 992,000 new records. Explore three new 18th-century sets – Protestant Householders, Dissenters’ Petitions and the 1766 Religious …

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A Google Docs Alternative You Can Use Without Any Login

Here is an article that is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, it describes a new, useful, and free tool that should appeal to many computer users. Stashpad, a developer-focused “DM to yourself”-styled notebook app, is now pivoting to a docs app …

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20 Years of Digitisation of the Collection of the University Library in Poznan, Poland

The University Library in Poznan has over 3 million volumes in its collection. Not all of them are available only on-site, in the building at Ratajczaka 38/40 in Poznań. Some of them can be found on the… Internet, or more precisely in the Greater Poland Digital Library: https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/. It is a joint initiative of Poznan’s academic …

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