Well, I haven’t taken any pictures of the town of Agaete (googling them would be cheating), a charming town in the island of Gran Canaria, but I have taken pictures of several charming towns in its sister island of Tenerife, so enjoy.
Javiero, I am always delighted by your relentless obsession with (1) the Canary islands and (2) rigorous analysis of data.
As someone who is similarly obsessed with (1) the Dutch Caribbean islands and (2) also data, I'm especially excited by your analysis of overrepresented surnames. Here on my island of Saba, there are two massively dominant surnames, Hassell and Johnson. Even though Johnson is a common English surname, and Hassell is a somewhat common Dutch surname (our island was colonized by both these countries) at some point), these names are much more common here than in the English or Dutch areas they are the most common today.
Now, I want to find out if I can get my hands on marriage and birth names records from here. Thanks for inspiring me!
I just try to ignore the massive recent advances of AI, and that frees most of my obsession-inclined brain's capacity to do research on this.
Regarding Saba's Hassells, that sounds intriguing. The obvious explanation if that there was some kind of random "drift" in surname frequencies, simply because Saba has so few people, but there might be something else to it.
Maybe a good starting point could be the Family Search website? It shows many results for Hassell (The first URL looks at The Bottom in particular), but I can't make much sense of them due to my unfamiliarity with Saba and complete lack of knowledge of Dutch:
Javiero, I am always delighted by your relentless obsession with (1) the Canary islands and (2) rigorous analysis of data.
As someone who is similarly obsessed with (1) the Dutch Caribbean islands and (2) also data, I'm especially excited by your analysis of overrepresented surnames. Here on my island of Saba, there are two massively dominant surnames, Hassell and Johnson. Even though Johnson is a common English surname, and Hassell is a somewhat common Dutch surname (our island was colonized by both these countries) at some point), these names are much more common here than in the English or Dutch areas they are the most common today.
Now, I want to find out if I can get my hands on marriage and birth names records from here. Thanks for inspiring me!
I just try to ignore the massive recent advances of AI, and that frees most of my obsession-inclined brain's capacity to do research on this.
Regarding Saba's Hassells, that sounds intriguing. The obvious explanation if that there was some kind of random "drift" in surname frequencies, simply because Saba has so few people, but there might be something else to it.
Maybe a good starting point could be the Family Search website? It shows many results for Hassell (The first URL looks at The Bottom in particular), but I can't make much sense of them due to my unfamiliarity with Saba and complete lack of knowledge of Dutch:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?f.collectionId=5000229&q.birthLikePlace=The%20Bottom%2C%20Saba%2C%20Netherlands&q.surname=hassell
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6PGY-3Z22?lang=en
(God bless the Mormons and their obsession with genealogy)