also, these groupings are fuzzy
Germanic is centered around central and southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland
England and Northwestern Europe is centered around Benelux, England, Northern Germany, northern France.
5 Likes
Since there does seem to be some interest, Iāll mention that this year the RootsTech 3-day conference will be virtual and FREE, so itās probably worth registering to see if thereās anything out of about 40 learning sessions that might be worth the time.
Itās through Ancestry but also the FamilySearch website, which was started by the Mormons: they do have the best genealogy research.
This February, for the first time ever, the largest family history technology conference in the world is entirely online and completely free.
At RootsTech Connect 2021, AncestryĀ® has a huge lineup prepared, with nearly 40 learning sessions hosted by our experts.
Topics covered:
ā¢ How to jumpstart your family tree
ā¢ The latest family history news and innovations
ā¢ Our new short-format learning series: Genealogy in a Minute
ā¢ And much more!
4 Likes
Hey, now they donāt have to worry about paying it off; whatāre they bitching about (tee hee)?
I almost posted this in Schadenfreunde Pie thread because I still owe them money. But using 1990s-era software in the 21st Century? REALLY? Were they trying to save money in not upgrading their software, one of THE biggest finance corps. in the world?
3 Likes
And they tell us poor people that weāre stupid.
3 Likes
Well that is truly awful, counter-intuitive design. But thatās not something thatās limited to the 90s. They could make something just as bad or worse today, and almost certainly do. That could very well be the latest up-to-date version.
An Oracle āinternational enterpriseā product is a mess all its own which you would not believe.
Thankfully I havenāt had to work with much of that āenterpriseā stuff. The sheer complexity of trying to be all things to all people, and handle all possible combinations of business rules, regulations, and use-cases means that mistakes like that are pretty much certain to happen.
However it has that same sort of enterprise level cachet as āNobody ever got fired for buying IBM.ā Of course theyāre going to go with the big name, the industry standard, not some little-known competitor without a track record or worse, some proprietary internal system. Absurdly, they pick software like that - that complex and opaque and those awful UIs - to minimize risk.
Itās pretty significant though that they had 3 levels of review and they all thought it looked right. Canāt imagine being one of the ones who made a $500 million mistake, but they were following best practices, using industry standard software.
5 Likes
I canāt help but think of the Swedish Chef.
3 Likes
The original show or the new ones?
I bet they mean Zoot. Or maybe Animal. Drummers do tend to get a bad rap.
2 Likes
3 Likes
3 Likes
I answered a fairly interesting questionnaire to find out Iām in better company that I thought I was, ideologically:
Iād post my certificate but Iām too lazy to convert it from a .pdf. But it does show that liāl red dot being surrounded by Prince Pyotr Kropotkin and Emma Goldman. 
4 Likes
4 Likes
2 Likes
Interesting, but I am leery of essays that attempt to blame everything on one concept that is deemed pernicious. Perhaps it is an artifact of the form.
1 Like
2 Likes
3 Likes
I encountered some errors trying tow play that. Here are some more direct links
and
2 Likes
Thank you!
3 Likes
Hereās a video showing a locked letter from about the same period.
The paper is open access.
4 Likes
Yes, very interesting as to how they opened itā¦but how far do I have to scroll down through all the techie stuff to read the letter itself?
3 Likes