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SLES 12 SP3 to SP4: In-place upgrades on Azure

by | May 10, 2019 | evilzenscientist

Again the SLES team made this really easy – using zypper and the online update repositories. Less than 15 minutes per server – and a single reboot.

Documentation is at https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_sle_deployment/data/sec_update_migr_zypper_onlinemigr.html

Accept the recommended upgrade – and read and accept the EULA – and you’re away. For me 240MB download, 156 packages, 10 minutes of install, one reboot.

zypper migration

Available migrations:

    1 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 x86_64


Genealogy and Family Tree notes–Transportation, marriage, name changes

by | Apr 28, 2019 | evilzenscientist

Another placeholder to keep notes and hints on Family Tree research.

There was a hint that a distant relative had been transported – good contemporary documentation for that fact; but nothing conclusive linking the father to children.

Eventually the route to solve this seems to have been through the wife/mother of children. Unfortunately the data isn’t very clean nor consistent.

  • Transcription errors (and inconsistencies between FindMyPast and Ancestry) on names and birth locations
  • Were they really married? No records of banns, church marriage or any civil records.
  • Name changes as the enumerator takes names; and as general literacy improves during the 19th Century
  • Inconsistent dates of birth – as folk want to seem older/younger/closer in age to their spouse