Hi from southern Ontario: what's happening here? Weather is about normal for August, temps about 25-30C, with pop-up thunderstorms.
We are going away from Monday to Saturday, staying at a very small cottage in the middle of nowhere, lots of walking and cycling planned, the area was settled about 1840 most of the settlers were unaware that the land is almost all thin soils over solid rock, farming was mostly unsuccessful.
We will go to at least 1 local museum, some of the Robbie's ancestors were original settlers in the area. There are ruins of an abandoned settlement. An official ghost town!
Chez moi/at home: The veg garden is determined to take over the surrounding trees and shrubs, once again I think I will have cucumbers hanging from a tree next to the garden.
So far, we have picked 4 litres of blackberries and the season is not even halfway through. Considering that local organic blackberries are about $4.50 for a 1/2 pint package, about 2 pints per litre, you can do the math.
Tomatoes are starting to ripen, 3 butternut squash are becoming a squash tower growing on a very tall tomato cage.
Alton Cemetery, One Place Study, family history: I went through my profile completeness suggestions for Error-458, birth location not set and reduced the total from 115 to 12, all that really means is checking off the certain or uncertain box on the profile, the remaining ones are for a family born in the 1600s in Scotland, they all require a lot more research.
How many of us always check off the certain/uncertain boxes?
The other errors are death date not set, death location not set and short biographies. I'm going to ignore the death related errors as most of the profiles that need a death date and location are minor players in the family and I'm not that interested in when and where they died. The 733 short biographies will be a winter task, that is shorter than 500 letters. Some of them are the minor players, but 500 letters is not a lot, this paragraph is 364 letters.
I haven't done anything with the Alton Cemetery because we had the first non-family guests since March 2020, they came for dinner on Tuesday and then I fell down another rabbit hole. The Allen family of Napanee, Ontario, the 3 x Grt-grandparents of one of the guests. I did not know that they have been involved in family history research. We had a long conversation about the research they have done and about various family history, genealogy websites.
The question of sourcing has come up again on G2G, lots of conversation about why people don't provide sources, don't understand accuracy requirements, don't know what a source is, don't know how to find 'proper' sources.
We talked with our guests about WT, they seemed interested, we found an ancestor with a profile on WT. I am going to ask our guests to join and report back on the help pages for sourcing, it might help to shed a little light on why people don't source profiles.
Covid: Ontario continues to have decreasing cases, kids are going back to in person school in September, and we have all our collective fingers crossed.