Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Common hill myna (Gracula religiosa): Monthly Business Meeting Agenda & News for World University and School on 8/17/19 * * * Ancestry.com. Haven't yet updated - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm - and AncestryDNA for new approaches to family history narratives



As WIKI
@WorldUnivAndSch
 seeks to begin licensing with
@CaBPPE
 then accredit with
@wascsenior
 for free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor & PhD degrees first in English, WUaS seeks FUNDING & is finding #Taoist #WuWei (non-action) even meditation #Quaker approach good


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1156549965566504960

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1156550173788475392

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1156550294227972101

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1156550531130638338

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1156550721858203649

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156549832749850628




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Re: Agenda & News for WUaS open monthly business meeting Aug 17 2019
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Scott MacLeod
11:37 AM (2 minutes ago)
to Larry, Peter, me, Iulian, Markus, Ajit, Govind, Govind, org, Julian, Jayni, Kyle, Lydia, Meeting, Juan, Scott, tito, Jim, Juan, Yuping-CASPA, Denny, Yuping-CASPA, worldunivandsch, yuping.chung, Claudia, David, David, David, Mary, Nicolai, Susan, Henry, VJ, Andrzej, Mircea, Mohamed, Edward

Dear Larry, Peter, and World University & School Foundation (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation),

Item 2 for the Monthly Business Meeting Agenda & News for World University and School on 8/17/19.

Searched on "Google Meet video conference into Youtube video to replace Hangouts?" And re https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch ?

While Google Meet looks great - "New Video Conferencing Experience with Hangouts Meet | The G Suite Show" ...

https://youtu.be/lkvig0i_kI8 - and different for G Suite users (like WUaS - eg info@worlduniversityandschool.org),

I still haven't seen whether it will become the basis for real, real time music-making - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Musical_Jamming (in the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School).

WUaS continues to be both Google Platform-centric, as well as Wikidata-centric in its ~300 languages, as we develop further.

Cheers, Scott
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/07/minutes-for-wuass-open-monthly-business.html -
14 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html -


Item 1 -
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:43 AM Scott MacLeod wrote:
Dear Larry and Peter,

More about a lack of funding ... and seeking monies for WUaS, in planning for August's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting ...

As WIKI
@WorldUnivAndSch
 seeks to begin licensing with
@CaBPPE
 then accredit with
@wascsenior
 for free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor & PhD degrees first in English, WUaS seeks FUNDING & is finding #Taoist #WuWei (non-action) even meditation #Quaker approach good

... am finding both (Non-theist)Quaker and Taoist (Wu Wei ... 'non-action') thinking helpful ... Hoping good funding streams will emerge, since Reed College's Sept. 14 2019 FAR weekend (Forum for Advancing Reed) doesn't have any more airfare reimbursements this year, and it also could cost to stay in a hotel (and I didn't call up any friends about staying with them either). Ongoing elusive funding for WUaS and myself, as we continue to get World Univ & Sch for a song! :)

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1156549965566504960 and https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156549832749850628


https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1156550173788475392

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1156550294227972101

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1156550531130638338

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1156550721858203649

Sincerely, Scott

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Scott MacLeod
9:00 AM (3 hours ago)
to Mark, Gerrard, Minn, Anne, Gerry, james.kerian, Tobins, Jen, Jim, Sandy, Jennifer, Morgan, Scott, Andrew, Gerry, Sandra, Janie, Claire, Constance, Anne, Jennifer, Bruce

Back in the land of Canyon, California 94516, after leaving Cuttyhunk island, MA 02713, MacLeods.

Sent in my AncestryDNA yesterday and activated this in the Ancestry.com web site too ... am curious what family history narratives will emerge newly from this genetic information. Mark already has his AncestryDNA online.

If you want to play in the Ancestry.com playground, here are our two trees re sharing:
MacLeod DiDonato Family Tree - https://ancstry.me/2LadJEy
MacLeod (& Brown) Family Tree - https://ancstry.me/2XRoHVv

I find it interesting that James Edward McLeod, many of our great, great grandfather, who in the 1850s could have come from Inverness-shire to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, - and that Inverness-shire extends all the way to the Isle of Skye and the outer Hebrides. Good map here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness-shire

On my mother's side - Janet Kirkbride Brown MacLeod (who is in this email thread too) - my great, great grandfather too, James A Brown, also came from Scotland. Seeking to learn more re these Scottish forebears.

See some of you August 1, 2020 at Bonny Eagle?

Hold fast MacLeods :), Scott

Aurorae: Boreraig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, this cairn to the MacCrimmon pipers, hereditary bagpipers to the Clan MacLeod, but I don't recall (from the 1970s) this particular event of John MacFadyen piping, Musings about the latent, very latent, Scottish IDENTITY I think I learned, and with regards to this web pages' pictures - http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/clan-history * * * A kind of a latent MacLEOD identification seemed to happen in our family from when I was 10 or 11 or so at least, I think Dad, with his very Scottish name, Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD (my name too - Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III, where my nickname is Scott ... and that Dad ... until he became a medical doctor), MacLeod family history emails with my cousin Mark MacLeod, Genealogy and DNA - "I hope that with enough MacLeod DNA we might be able to reduce the uncertainty on where James Edward McLeod was born" - before he arrived on Prince Edward Island in the 1850s, (Ancestry.com related pages/links here - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm) * * * Having recorded all of the bagpiping tunes in the College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol. 1 on the Scottish Small Pipes on an A chanter, and appreciating how this goal of recording so that others learning the SSP in A could learn with a Tutor (by playing with eventually), I think I'm now going to try to record as many tunes from the CoP Green Tutor Vol. 1 as possible that work on the Scottish Small Pipes on a D chanter - and soon on B flat chanter, which is coming in the mail, Just began a Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod family tree in WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 ~

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html -

Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus): Family history - MacLeod / Brown / Gilbert / Briscoe / Chadbourne / Lincoln / Kirkbride * * * Both the last names of my father, after James Edward McLeod, and my mother's maiden name Janet Kirkbride Brown, a James A. Brown - 'MacLeod' and 'Brown' - were from Scotland apparently, and I haven't yet found any evidence of who preceded them in Scotland * * * the Chadbourne line is supposed to go back to Edward I * * * Doing Genealogical history via information technologies a flow experience for me - absorbed mind (re Cziksznetmihalyi's book "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" of the same name * * * One genealogy tree for 7.5B people - in WikiTree - with a DNA focus?

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/galapagos-penguin-spheniscus-mendiculus.html -

I add too to the "Gordon K MacLeod MD" blog label from time to time - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD - as well.

Warmly, Scotty
http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm



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Scott MacLeod
9:26 AM (2 hours ago)
to Edith, Sandy, Alden, Pete, Susan, Karen, Janie, Scott, Ann, catherinemuller57, MacLeod

Hello Edith and Sandy, and All,



To MacLeods, and other family (Brown, Briscoe, Chadbourne, Gilbert ... ),

Back in the land of Canyon, California 94516, after leaving the waters of Cuttyhunk island, Massachusetts 02713, MacLeods.

Sent in my AncestryDNA yesterday and activated this in the Ancestry.com web site too ... am curious what family history narratives will emerge newly from this genetic information. Mark already has his AncestryDNA online.

If you want to play in the Ancestry.com playground, here are our two trees re sharing:
MacLeod DiDonato Family Tree - https://ancstry.me/2LadJEy
MacLeod (& Brown) Family Tree - https://ancstry.me/2XRoHVv

I find it interesting that James Edward McLeod, many of our great, great grandfather, who in the 1850s could have come from Inverness-shire to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, - and that Inverness-shire extends all the way to the Isle of Skye and the outer Hebrides. Good map here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness-shire

On my mother's side - Janet Kirkbride Brown MacLeod (who is in this email thread too) - my great, great grandfather too, James A Brown, also came from Scotland. Seeking to learn more re these Scottish forebears.

See some of you August 1, 2020 at Bonny Eagle?

Hold fast MacLeods :), Scott

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/galapagos-penguin-spheniscus-mendiculus.html

I add too to the "Gordon K MacLeod MD" blog label from time to time - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD - as well.

Warmly, Scotty
http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm



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Scott MacLeod
10:01 AM (1 hour ago)
to Mark



Hi Mark,

Think I'm getting back into Ancestry.com after a Cuttyhunk hiatus.

Looks like I'm paying $19.99/month to A.com, I saw recently, so it's probably worth my getting the AncestryDNA information into Ancestry.com itself, learning a bit about this new approach to family history, downloading a GEDCOM file, and then taking a vacation for awhile, possibly while developing new approaches in WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524. (See this World Univ & Sch recent post - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156549832749850628 - re WUaS's poverty too; WUaS hasn't yet become financially operational to speak of after some 9 years when we became a 501 c 3, and WUaS became a parallel for-profit general stock company legal entity in 2017). Have you checked out you in WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2527 (and here's your Dad - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2532 - too, Professor Bruce Vincent MacLeod, both of which I added) by any chance? I think both sites will offer different methodologies re genealogical approaches, and both have a DNA focus as well.

Will check out some of the birth date questions you touch on here -


Monday, July 22, 2019
Scott,

 It would be great if there was an automatic way to sort out conflicts like birth dates. Surprisingly, I've come across hundreds of instances of mismatched dates. I try to rely on something official like a birth certificate, and hopefully find the same date in more than one document. But at the end of the day I've simply decided not to worry about a birthdate or other event being a day or two off (was one date a birth and the other a baptism?). I've even come across grave stones where the inscribed birth year is wrong (e.g. George S. MacLeod, buried in Portland). 

 One unresolved mystery is the birth year of Ernest James MacLeod. His birth certificate is clear - he was born Aug 10, 1876. But Ernest often listed his birth date as Aug 8, 1877 including on his draft card and naturalization documents. Odd.  

 I think I accessed your father's record to add the 'II' to his name and to check whether I found reference to his burial in Find-a-Grave (I did).

 Mark 


... as I get back into Ancestry.com. Haven't yet updated - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm - but hope to soon, now that I'm back in Canyon 94516.

Have you already seen Sandy, Gerry and Mary Lou at the lake in Buxton? How were / are they? It could be interesting to explore EASILY and SIMPLY adding an online video aspect to the MacLeod family reunion at Bonny Eagle on 8/1/20 you've mentioned. This would allow family, particularly yours, from around the world/country, who might be interested to join, hypothetically. Would be particularly great if someone from Bruce MacLeod's offspring expressed interest in this. (Just brainstorming about this further:)

Thanks for the Ancestry.com seed / meme (replicating cultural unit:) a word newly coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 (see too - https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins), who takes a very different approach to genetics and history, re his far-reaching evolutionary biological focus.

Have you seen Twitter feeds, or blogs (e.g. http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD) added to Ancestry.com - re family history documentation evidence?

Nice to be in touch about all of this :)

MacLeod cheers, Scott



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Mark MacLeod
5:43 AM (11 hours ago)
to me

Scott,

Regarding the wiki genealogy sites, I think I'll stick with Ancestry. I've invested a lot of time building the tree in Ancestry and switching to a new format, which I don't really care for, doesn't work for me now. But thanks for the suggestion!

I've looked at some of the twitter blogs and other links. I must be getting old - all the various links confuse the hell out of me! I find it too distracting.

When I was in Maine last week we did meet up with Gerry and Mary Lou for dinner at our place in Buxton. We had a great time! They are doing well. Sandy was tied up and couldn't make it.

I'm getting ready to send out a 'formal' invitation to the reunion. Stay tuned. The Facebook site is almost ready. We will have to find a good way to easily share photos, videos, family trees, etc.

Mark


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Scott MacLeod
Attachments
8:37 AM (8 hours ago)
to MacLeod

Mark,

Thanks for your email once again. May let you know what I discover in brief with time differentially with WikiTree re Ancestry. Appreciating WikiTree's mission and developing interface, especially since it may eventually connect with Wikidata (Wikipedia's "back end" structured knowledge database in 300 languages, which WUaS is in too), like wiki World University and School will. Both have MediaWiki "front ends." Both Ancestry and WikiTree have a DNA focus too. And wiki makes possible a different kind of sharing of info and documents than Ancestry. And I'll learn family history in new ways differentially with a kind of comparative and conversation-between-the-two approach. Appreciating your focus on Ancestry.

I can see individual blog and Twitter posts as documents, and Ancestry I think stores document URLs as well as docements (eg PDFs, photos). It's when multiple blog posts share a common 'label' or when Twitter posts share a common #hashtag that the adding to an Ancestry gets confusing for me. I see both of these social media as awesome new document generators, creativity-wise too. And I see them too as pretty organized, just requiring following a theme when there are many of them, or many ideas in them/one. I'd like to add the GKM MD blog 'label' -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD?m=0 -
for ex. but since these bkog posts aren't solely about my father, and thus could be confusing, it might be good to be able add specific post's URLs that are at first, and I haven't yet seen how to add just a URL as reference to a document in Ancestry yet.

Glad you had dinner with Gerry and Mary Lou. Please give them my warm greetings when you talk wuth/see them again next. Was very glad to see Sandy on Cuttyhunk if only briefly, - alas that he was tied up for dinner with all of you. (Am still seeking a partner and re beginning a family in these regards too ... attractiveness as partners grow together changes I imagine).

Have noted your upcoming MacLeod reunion in Buxton and looking forward to it very much, and related social media, if this works out schedule-wise et al. Appreciating too your expertise in Ancestry.

Warm regards,
Scott



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Scott MacLeod
11:38 AM (5 hours ago)
to Mark

Mark,

Thanks particularly for the 'conversation,' in email, aspect of genealogy research. I find conversation - World Univ & Sch-wise too - especially generative re learning. Will try to bring this conversation further into Ancestry.com platform itself.

Scott



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Scott MacLeod
11:42 AM (5 hours ago)
to Mark

Mark,

Any indication or signs in documents, or re possible logical inferences, that James Edward McLeod could have spoken A) Scottish Gaelic, or B) Scots, in addition to C) English (per the PEI documents)?

The language angle is interesting to me - in Ancestry! What have you found with regards to French re your Mom's ancestry and Canada in Ancestry in these regards, if anything?

Scott



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