The 25th Scottish Indexes Conference will be held on 7 September 2024. As always, this is a free online event. Here are the first five speakers to be announced: ‘Searching for ancestors in The Royal Mail Archive’ by Susannah Coster, archivist at The Postal Museum in London ‘Parochial Matters: parishes, districts and counties’ by Robert …
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What Happens To Your Backup Files When a Cloud Service Unexpectedly Shuts Down?
I love cloud computing and use it several times daily. I use a cloud-based email service. I make backups of all my files to a cloud-based service, and I’m even writing this article with a cloud-based word processor. I have written a number of times about cloud-based services. There is one big question, however: what …
Microsoft Launches Free AI Assistant For All Educators in US in Deal With Khan Academy
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, I suspect this article will be of interest to anyone who is an educator. Microsoft is partnering with tutoring organization Khan Academy to provide a generative AI assistant to all teachers …