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Electric Scotland's Weekly Newsletter for April 3Rd, 2015 Electric Scotland's Weekly Newsletter for April 3rd, 2015 To see what we've added to the Electric Scotland site view our What's New page at: http://www.electricscotland.com/whatsnew.htm To see what we've added to the Electric Canadian site view our What's New page at: http://www.electriccanadian.com/whatsnew.htm For the latest news from Scotland see our ScotNews feed at: http://www.electricscotland.com/ Electric Scotland News Our thanks to Joan Morris for sending us in a copy of this article... Google Books Reduces its Digitizing and Preservation of old Books while Internet Archive Increases its Efforts at the Same Thing An article in The Message states that Google is reducing its efforts at digitizing old books. That certainly is a loss for genealogists, historians, and many others. In what appears to be an unrelated move, the Internet Archive is INCREASING its efforts at digitizing old books, adding 1,000 books to the online collection EACH DAY. Perhaps there is hope for genealogists after all. In 2004, Google Books signaled the company’s intention to scan every known book, partnering with libraries and developing its own book scanner capable of digitizing 1,000 pages per hour. Since then, the company has digitized millions of old books, creating a valuable archive. Google Books is still online, but has curtailed its scanning efforts in recent years, likely discouraged by a decade of legal wrangling still in appeal. The Google Books Blog stopped updating in 2012 and the Twitter account has been dormant since February 2013. In contrast, the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization, has created one of the world’s largest open collections of digitized books, over 6 million public domain books, and an open library catalog. The digitized books available from the Internet Archive also are available in many more formats than those from any other online service, including PDF, Kindle, EPUB, and more. Of course, you can also read any book simply by displaying it on your screen in a web browser. The Internet Archive has also digitized 1.9 million videos, home movies, and 4,000 public-domain feature films. It has also added 2.3 million audio recordings, including over 74,000 radio broadcasts, 13,000 78rpm records, and 1.7 million Creative Commons-licensed audio recordings, more than 137,000 concert recordings, nearly 10,000 from the Grateful Dead alone. Other items added to the FREE online archives include more than 10,000 audiobooks from LibriVox, 668,000 news broadcasts with full-text search, and the largest collection of historical software in the world. The Internet Archive also offers scanning services. The non-profit offers FREE and open access to scan complete print collections in 33 scanning centers, with 1,500 books scanned daily. Best of all, the scanning of books is performed in a non-destructive manner. That means there is no need to cut the bindings off the books before scanning. The Internet Archive either operates or partners with 33 scanning centers on 5 continents. You can read more about the demise of Google Books and the rise of the Internet Archive at http://goo.gl/DFYq7W. The Internet Archive may be found at http://archive.org. Information about the Internet Archive book digitization efforts may be found at http://archive.org/scanning. Given the amount of audio recordings they do I wondered if any of you knew who produced the Brickie story? The story can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/humour/h29.htm but there was an old 78rpm record of it and I'd love to find an audio recording of it. It's just that while the story is funny enough the audio recording was even better. Tartan Week Tons of events on over the next couple of weeks headed up by the special events in New York City but plenty of events on all over the world. To celebrate Tartan Day you are encouraged to wear some item of tartan. So while you could wear a kilt or tartan skirt you could also wear a tartan tie or tartan scarf. Research on Names I am embarking on a longer term project to go through our list of Septs. If you take a look at our clan and family pages you'll note some claim a list of Septs and others claim a list of names associated with their name. The list of Sept names can only be added by the clan chief. Often these are historical associations and the current clan chief is often not aware why his or her ancestor listed the name as a Sept. My idea is to gradually work through all our clan and family pages and where they claim Septs I will endeavor to find out why they are listed as a Sept and add a link to where further information can be found. Once I have completed this task I will then embark on the much larger number of names that are "associated" with the clan. The problem is that with some clans claiming loads of names it's important that people know that just because you share that name it doesn't mean you are associated with the clan. Also most clans do not give any reason why they claim that name as associated with the clan. In my opinion there is a huge lack of transparency on this and we need to examine their claims. I would be happy to receive any information on names that are associated with the clan but will be doing what research I can to provide more information. And so in the coming weeks you will see me focusing on names. Electric Canadian Historic Halifax Pocket Guide Book which you can read at: http://www.electriccanadian.com/history/novascotia/historichalifix.pdf Hudson's Bay Exploring Expedition 1912 By J. B. Tyrrell Considering this exploration was just over 100 years ago it shows how we were still surveying parts of Canada. You can read this book at http://www.electriccanadian.com/history/ontario/hudsonbay1912.pdf Electric Scotland George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll K.G., K.T. (1823 - 1900) Autobiography and Memoirs edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll with Portraits and Illustrations in two volumes. We've now added the final chapters to this book which you can read at: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/argyll/argyllndx.htm Northern Lights Pen and Pencil Sketches of Modern Scottish Worthies by Rev. Jabez Marrat (1877). The biographies added this week complete this book. Chapter XIII. Norman Macleod, D.D. Chapter XIV. Duncan Matheson Chapter XV. Hugh Miller Chapter XVI. Dr. Moffat Chapter XVII. David Sandeman Chapter XVIII. Sir James Young Simpson Chapter XIX. Professor George Wilson You can view these at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/northernlights/index.htm "Select Writings of Robert Chamber's Popular Rhymes of Scotland" (1847). I'm starting to add this book to his page and have now added the first ten sections. The chapters added this week are Rhymes appropriate to Children's Amusements and Miscellaneous Purile Rhymes. You can read this towards the foot of the page at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/chambers_robert.htm Renfrewshire By Frederick Mort (1912). Added another two chapters... Chapter 8. The Coast Line Chapter 9. Weather and Climate You can find this book on our current Renfrew page at: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/renfrew/ Robert Burns Lives! Edited by Frank Shaw Today we’ll talk about sermons and church life and a refreshing contribution to our website by Gerry Carruthers. I’ve read countless sermons in my life and listened to more than I care to remember. Same goes for Robert Burns who has had so many books written about him that various scholars think the majority of the books on Burns didn’t deserve to be written, much less printed. One story told long ago reminds us of ministers who would put the cart before the mule. One such pastor had gone to visit one of his parishioners and, as he stood by her hospital bed, he said in a high-pitched voice but with deep authority, “I hope you don’t let this keep you away from our prayer meeting tonight”, as the mother lovingly holds in her arms the wee baby delivered just a few hours before. Burns could have written a great story about him! I read somewhere that the secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and to have the two as close together as possible. Thus, Gerry has met the criteria for an excellent sermon! If you cannot or do not enjoy Professor Carruthers’ sermon below, there is the possibility there is something wrong with you. Here is one guy’s sermon I would chase up to the church house to listen to. Maybe it should be named “Tap Roots for Tall Souls”. (FRS: 4.2.15) You can read the article, "A Sermon... By Professor Gerard Carruthers" at: http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/frank/burns_lives216.htm A Tour in Sutherlandshire With extracts from the field-books of a Sportsman and Naturalist by Charles St. John, Esq. in two volumes 2nd Edition (1884). A new book we're starting. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR. By Captain H. C. St. John I have been asked to jot down some few reminiscences of my father. I was only eighteen when he died, and as I had been to sea for four years, my recollections of him are almost those of a child. I remember him — a slight, active man, of middle height, wiry and strong, with a handsome, animated face, blue eyes, and a singularly sweet smile.
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