Yvette Hoitink

Nou nee. Als ZZP-er krijg ik weliswaar wat extra aftrekposten maar verder zijn % loonbelasting en sociale verzekeringen hetzelfde. Dankzij hoger uurtarief is mijn totale belastbare inkomen hoger dan in loondienst. Ik betaal dus per saldo meer belasting, maar heb geen recht op bijv. WAO, WW, etc.

Wat bedoel je in deze context met academisch historici? Historici met een academische opleiding of met een aanstelling aan een academische instelling? Ik ben bijv. een ZZP-er met een master in familie- en lokale geschiedenis. Doe vooral onderzoek in opdracht maar schrijf ook wel voor journals.

Yes, I have noticed that the Netherlands is further ahead in that respect. I can do 99% of my research online, either already digitized or via free scanning-on-demand. And we have trained models for various types of handwriting, plus open-source HTR software.

In the Netherlands, many early town records have been digitized so there I have had great success solving similar problems by using AI to transcribe them all and then searching.
But I take it this is London, so not that feasible.

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After a quick search I can only find a quote of that passage, but nothing further on Grimston/Grinston. www.academia.edu/6016673/Occa...

This is the type of question that handwritten text recognition could help with, to make larger bodies of records full-text searchable.

I read that as Grinston, not Grimston, but still have no idea.

De duivel die vist is een beeld wat je wel vaker tegenkomt, maar naar kaas is nieuw voor mij.
Zie bijv. ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/p...
ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/p...

Is hier misschien een kunsthistoricus of iemand anders met kennis van blasfemische religieuze afbeeldingen die kan uitleggen wat hier precies wordt afgebeeld?

Maar dat is niet waar de meeste mensen aan denken bij "territories" (ook al zijn het territoriale wateren). Ik denk dat er voor beide keuzes wat te zeggen is.

Ik vind dat wel getuigen van aandacht voor detail van de kaartenmaker.

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Just like you might ask a human expert for tips on further reading, you can ask AI. It does not mean that you let AI do all your thinking for you.

I did my undergrad in AI and postgrad in history. I think AI can be immensely helpful for discovery. It might point me to literature I did not think about. It might point out discrepancies or conflicts I did not notice. I then do my own reading and analysis.

Was Eleanor of Aquitaine my Ancestor? Generation 25 – Guy of Dampierre This is the twenty-sixth post in a series about my possible line of descent from Eleanor of Aquitaine. In the first post, I explained how I discovered the possible line, and how I am going to verify i...

Grandpa!
www.dutchgenealogy.nl/was-eleanor-...

Probably a free version rather than the latest models.
I do not advocate this practice, BTW, I think people should read their own sources and cite those. But it's becoming very hard to distinguish actual research from LLM research.

LLMs would hallucinate while generating citations in 2023 and 2024, but in 2026 I have found them to be much improved. Have you tried to do use them for this purpose lately? It's getting scarily good.

The possible French context suggests another interpretation: Schrifterij is the literal Dutch rendition of écritoire (writing desk or writing room), so the author may have been familiar with that term and translated it to Dutch. There should be more resources for écritoire.

Using LLMs for social sciences articles is like building a robot to lift your weights in the gym.

I do not think that is a standard term. My interpretation would make the most sense for the 1550s-1580s, when the Dutch Reformed Church was still transitioning from Latin/Catholic and the Dutch words for different functions had not become standardized yet.

What period is this? Looks to me like Dutchified version of the scriba, the secretary of the church council. "Rustende onder" [roughly: residing under] also indicates a person or organization rather than a physical space.

Ja, ik hou daarvan. Mijn portemonnee minder!

Mogelijk omdat ik domme spellingsfouten maak, zoals "so wie so" in plaats van "sowieso" 🤦‍♀️

So wie so al een eer als je boek met de voorkant naar voren staat. Ik heb het nooit verder geschopt dan het ruggetje 😂

Goed gezelschap!

Absolutely. It makes me more efficient.

I use it in different ways, e.g.
* As a smarter Google, where I ask it an LLM look for websites for me (e.g. find this law, find articles about this topic).
* to make records full-text searchable so I can find them and read them myself.

If records were destroyed, you also look at neighboring counties, higher jurisdictions, other record types that may have survived, including non-governmental records. NUCMC is good for that. www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/

You look at research guides e.g. FamilySearch Wiki for the county (www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Main...), the book for the relevant state in the Research in the States series published by the National Genealogical Society, websites of archives, NUCMC. And read journals to see what others used.

Thanks, that is fun. Makes me realize how many small countries I don't know, or don't think about. And I'm from a small country so you'd think I'd care!

That's one way to only encourage informed people to ask questions 😀

Barrel organs playing the Ukranian anthem outside the Russian embassy in The Hague. These things are loud!