I've mentioned previously that I'd installed Chrome on my old Dell Ubuntu laptop, and since then I've been threatening to go up to the library and try accessing Ancestry via Chrome.
(The town library has a subscription to Ancestry that's free to use, but access is restricted to the library networks - something that reminds me of the situation all these years ago at York where we had a CDROM image server that provided access via a Citrix thin client, and invariably we would end up having mildly surreal discussions about virtualisation and location with library information providers, who didn't quite get that while both the CD ROM server and the Citrix client server were in the library, access could be from any subnet on campus.)
Anyway, today I had an hour or two free so up I went (it's only a block) to the library with my old Dell Ubuntu laptop to download the relevant census records for Ethel Boole and Katherine Scragg.
I fully expected it to work, but I had never tried using the Library's edition of Ancestry from a Linux machine.
I'm pleased to report that it just worked - I logged in to the Library's website via the Library's 5GHz network, pfaffed about for a minute trying to remember which menu section allowed me to access Ancestry - for the record it's 'Digital Library' - and I was in and away.
Everything just worked, I could download files, save items as pdf, and because hardly anyone was using the 5GHz network everything just flew - advantages of doing it early in the afternoon before the schoolkids descend.
I saved everything to a scratch directory, which I uploaded to a scratch area on OneDrive, much as I did when documenting the contents of the kitchen at Lake View, before leaving to walk home.
Nice when everything just works as it should...
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