After I'd looked at the material I downloaded last week when researching Katherine Scragg, I found I still had a couple of questions around the date of her death and a possible marriage late in life which I needed to resolve before writing up her life after her 1887 assault in a railway carriage outside of Shrewsbury.
Now, during yesterday's internet debacle I'd tried using the Library's internet with my Chromebook, only to find the Library's internet was also down. In fact the whole town was offline.
So, today, just for fun, rather than take the Ubuntu machine I use for family history research up to the Library, I took my Chromebook - lighter than the Ubuntu laptop, but with a decent screen and keyboard.
After all, I reasoned, if the Library's version of Ancestry works well via Chrome on Ubuntu, it should work on a Chromebook, and I'm pleased to report it did. Perfectly.
Logging in was a bit of a fiddle, but that was down to the truly appalling Sirsi-Dynix library management system web client that buggers about endlessly redrawing the screen when logging in, but once connected everything just worked.
So, while hardly a surprise, it's useful to know and saves me having to cart a full sized laptop up to the library when all I want to do is run a couple of queries on Ancestry...
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