Best wishes for your recovery, Larry!

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

I don't know enough of the history of newspapers in general for England to have a good feeling for style, but my experience is that the US has more in the way of "this happened 50 years ago" features than English papers do. My most far-out find is from an 150 years ago column!

I found someone in the 1939 Register via a "lucky dip" because their hometown paper printed a notice of the couple's wedding anniversary which mentioned the town they had moved to since they married. Given his status, might Richard's anniversary be noted in a paper? (My subject was an outfitter.)

Newspapers in the UK for the time period don't have quite the same mix of news that our USA newspapers do, unfortunately. E.g. in the US you can find all sorts of things in features like "50 years ago" but in my experience papers in England don't do that as much.

It's *so* frustrating when people repeat information from unsourced trees. (I made a custom event on one of my Ancestry trees so I could make a note about someone's unsourced marriage date—seen on FamilySearch Family Tree—without filling in an actual marriage event.)

Even if you don't know anything about who might have taken the photo or how it came into your family's possession, *some* note about how you came by the photo, and that you don't have any other clues, is better than nothing. (Note: you is generic you = person uploading photos to FS or wherever)

Today is National Coming out Day. I congratulate everyone who is out. I thank you for sharing your truth with us, and I celebrate you for living as your true selves. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ In these bleak days of misinformation and disinformation, we need truth more than ever. Thanks for showing us the way. 💙

Lis Sladen and Sadie Miller were lovely to me thirty two years ago. I was already annoyed with this slop but this is heartbreaking to see. AI with real people is creepy & upsetting, *don't do it*. Aninate real art with real soundtracks. Use impressionists. You can play. But this crosses the line.

This is only discoverable by reading the court records, or now, perhaps, via Full Text Search at FamilySearch. So now I wonder, is there an equivalent case for the UK, pre-civil registration, where a marriage might be recorded outside a parish register? Too early for newspapers?