Weekly Genealogy Picks: Oct 28-Nov 3

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• Maureen A. Taylor at Photo Detective discusses Photo Manipulation before Photo Shop

• Dear Myrtle shares the information that a new source-centric genealogy program, Evidentia, is issuing a call for beta testers.

• Michael Leclerc at the Mocavo Genealogy Blog discusses Copy Right and Copy Wrong

• Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 witnesses evidence that Paper Still Matters.

• Kate Theimer at ArchivesNext suggests a couple places to donate money to help archives impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

• Rebecca Goldman at Derangement and Description presents some archival humor on LucasFilm being purchased by Disney.

• A parody of Malvina Reynolds' Little Boxes (Hat/Tip: Upfront with NGS)

Other Weekly Lists

• Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist

• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog

• Dan Curtis's Monday's Link Roundup at Personal Professional Historian

• Diane Haddad's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider

• Michael J Leclerc's From the Blogs at Mocavo Genealogy Blog

• Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist

• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next two weeks

Two Week Calendar

• Nov 4 - Mischief Night (UK)
• Nov 5 - Guy Fawkes Night (UK)
• Nov 6 - US Election Day
• Nov 6 - Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
• Nov 8 - World Urbanism Day
• Nov 9 - Schicksalstag (Germany)
• Nov 9 - International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
• Nov 10 - US Marine Corps birthday
• Nov 11 - New Year (Jain)
• Nov 11 - Father's Day (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway)
• Nov 11 - Armistice/Remembrance/Veterans Day (US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Belgium)
• Nov 11 - Deepavali/Diwali (Hindu) - Nov 11-15
• Nov 11 - Birth of Baha'u'llah (Bahai) - Nov 11 (sunset) to Nov 12 (sunset)
• Nov 13 - World Kindness Day 
• Nov 14 - World Diabetes Day
• Nov 14 - Hijra (Islamic New Year) - Nov 14 (sunset) to Nov 15 (sunset) 
• Nov 15 - Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
• Nov 15 - Beginning of Winter Lent (Eastern Orthodox)
• Nov 16 - International Day of Tolerance

Schrödinger the Cat’s Election Theorem: You can’t know whether your candidate has won or lost until the votes are counted. Until that moment, your candidate is half a winner, and half a loser.