"And it was at this time when Bartholemew and Echje met Lachlann Lagavulin, a young man from the town of Islay Scotland, and he shared unto them a peaty brand of whiskey that he was developing....."
I'm impressed by his intuition and literacy with history and primary documents. Surely, some of it is coaching, and some other discussions off camera, but it all feels very natural.
My father's line used to be coppersmiths, they made all sots of things out of copper, but they made their fortune making stills for distilleries. Ancestral tavern, serving drinks made in ancestral stills to ancestral drunks. That's the life...
In doing my family tree, I was really surprised to discover the New Netherland/New York branch of my grandmother’s tree-we only knew that her side was British and Canadian, but the majority of names on her tree are actually Dutch! The 17th and 18th century records in the colony/state are more complete than I expected, not just in the Dutch Reformed Church, but also in the court records. One of my 10th great grandmothers, Belitje Quick, was literate, unlike her husband Teunis, and occasionally represented him in court, as well as made a return visit to the Netherlands to wrap up family business and accounts while he stayed in New Amsterdam. I also had another 11th great grandmother Magdalena Volkertszen who ticked off some local bigwig in New Amsterdam on the evening of her second marriage. Her new husband and she ran a tavern thought to have been called The Flying Angel, which became her nickname, before the bigwig brought her up on trumped up charges and had her deported back to Amsterdam. She and her husband were only there for about a year before getting permission to return, but they moved away from Manhattan upstate. She continued getting into legal trouble for various confrontations, as well as suspicions of selling liquor to native tribesmen.
@@tobiashappe9164what is it that you've done to make it great exactly? How does that relate to one of this persons 2048 10th great grandparents being from the Netherlands?
@@thomashernandez8700 That was a quantum mechanics joke. Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment where a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. A hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.
I am very shocked also at this. I think there are quite a few of us who would wear gloves anyway just to preserve the sanctity of the document/historical item in hand.
There are 2 schools of thought. Some believe it's better to wear gloves to prevent skin oil transfer. But more and more places are practicing hand washing and bare hands because wearing gloves prohibits dexterity, leading to a greater likelihood of crumpling the pages.
Nyx773 - I should have also added to my statement “for of us with oily hands, to wear gloves” - but I am also at a point in my life where I would need help - shaky hands plagues some of us also.
One thing I will have to always disclose there are quite a lot of us with Extremely Oily skin. I know if I ever am able to see such artifacts, if I can’t wear the gloves, I would want the presenter to show these items to me without me touching them. I am intelligent enough to know through dealing with this for many years now, my touch would end up destroying the paper the artifacts are on.
Interestingly, women in medieval England could own property and such; My son told me Sir William Blackstone eliminated all that. That doesn't seem to be the case for at least the western states. It's of no great importance, but one of my ancestors owned a tavern in New York City. I do know of Dutch ( and one Huguenot family, to which one member gave a very ignorant etymology. Especially considering the French selling of the Name, and its resemblance to an ancient Gaulish tribe, still mentioned in Frankish History. ) Now all I need to do is find those mysterious Scandinavians who contributed to my DNA ( and a few other people ).
Believe it or not, the new school of thought is that rubber gloves cause more damage to the paper. This is because you lose a certain amount of sensitivity and can't gauge how much pressure you apply to the paper. This is more damaging than acidity produced from oils in the skin. A cartography shop in Mayfair taught me this lol .
@@ashjones2627 Yes, wearing gloves makes it much more prone to tearing happening. The best solution is to clean your hands extensively and use your bare hands. The Royal Society in England does the exact same thing, and I would surmise that it is the norm now when dealing with books and paper and documents. Gloves are still used when dealing with artifacts made out of things such as metal though.
@@MikeRoberts1964 I think it started in 1688.the dutch stadholder invaded england and the year after was king of england ( why do you think there are orange men in ireland??
These days we don't use gloves because clean hands are better for the paper than gloves in the long end, lots less tearing happening with the added sensitivity of skin!
@@michaeldukes4108 No need to throw shade - I am an accredited historian. In Australia we mostly still wear gloves. The oils from the hands are a problem, although I agree with the argument that a document is more likely to be torn if the user is wearing gloves. If the gloves are completely clean and fit well, however, I still prefer this method.
I'm for clean hands and no gloves. I'm also for touching the pages as little as possible (i.e. not holding the book down and not running a finger across the page)
it’s not intuitive, but bare hands is better for old books and records than fabrics, believe it or not. if you ever get to visit a special collections in a library, you’re likely to see them handling them just like this!
Nick’s excitement over the tavern discovery was like a kid in a candy shop.
"And it was at this time when Bartholemew and Echje met Lachlann Lagavulin, a young man from the town of Islay Scotland, and he shared unto them a peaty brand of whiskey that he was developing....."
@@lostinalbion4223 😂😂😂
@@lostinalbion4223 I think his head would explode, lol
Well it IS like a scavenger hunt and we KNOW how much he loves those! 😜
So nice to see his excitement! When I researched my birth family (finding out in my 50s) I had tears in my eyes reading their Wills.
I'm impressed by his intuition and literacy with history and primary documents. Surely, some of it is coaching, and some other discussions off camera, but it all feels very natural.
Nick's joy is contagious
Offerman is from a family with an ancestral tavern. My family, I'm from a long long line of ancestral drunks.
They probably met then.
My father's line used to be coppersmiths, they made all sots of things out of copper, but they made their fortune making stills for distilleries.
Ancestral tavern, serving drinks made in ancestral stills to ancestral drunks. That's the life...
Thats funny... Your funny🤣🤣
personally I come from a long line of dead people
In doing my family tree, I was really surprised to discover the New Netherland/New York branch of my grandmother’s tree-we only knew that her side was British and Canadian, but the majority of names on her tree are actually Dutch! The 17th and 18th century records in the colony/state are more complete than I expected, not just in the Dutch Reformed Church, but also in the court records.
One of my 10th great grandmothers, Belitje Quick, was literate, unlike her husband Teunis, and occasionally represented him in court, as well as made a return visit to the Netherlands to wrap up family business and accounts while he stayed in New Amsterdam.
I also had another 11th great grandmother Magdalena Volkertszen who ticked off some local bigwig in New Amsterdam on the evening of her second marriage. Her new husband and she ran a tavern thought to have been called The Flying Angel, which became her nickname, before the bigwig brought her up on trumped up charges and had her deported back to Amsterdam. She and her husband were only there for about a year before getting permission to return, but they moved away from Manhattan upstate. She continued getting into legal trouble for various confrontations, as well as suspicions of selling liquor to native tribesmen.
Be proud..we made america great
@@tobiashappe9164what is it that you've done to make it great exactly? How does that relate to one of this persons 2048 10th great grandparents being from the Netherlands?
Wow, my Dutch ancestor, Katrina VanTassel owned a tavern in Sleepy Hollow.
Swanson loves a good puzzle solving game
cool as all this is and I love Nick's excitement and awe... I was screaming the entire time to use GLOVES and point with a stylus
This was entirely too wholesome.
Very interesting! I love this man! I have an autographed copy of his book. He is extremely funny! He was my favorite in Parks And Rec.
I can’t wait to see more! Albany 😍
That cliffhanger there in the middle was like an actually good version of the ones you might see on Pawn Stars or whatever.
My 8th Great Grandparents Eliab Studley and Mary Briggs ran a Tavern in Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts and Eliab also owned a Sawmill
Nick Offerman getting excited over having a Tavern in his ancestry seems very fitting.
Wait, offerman is related to Leicestershire! I'm honoured.
Ron Swanson has entered the chat. 😄
I give him great credit for not saying lysestershire when pronouncing leicestshire
Hope you pronounce it better than you spell it
@@stoneagepig3768 ohhh bugger hoist by my own petard indeed.
Yep caught with my trousers down correctly spelt it's Leicestershire
@@matthewstanton9633 one of my favourite expressions. Lovely to see it in the wild.
His ancestors probably knew mine.: DuBois
The United States Marine corps was founded in 1775 at a place called the Tunn Tavern, Pennsylvania
I looked at Nick and thought “is he sick?” The. I realized he didn’t have his beard anymore 😅
I was so hoping, Schrodinger's Cat was in that box.
Who?
@@thomashernandez8700
It's just a Box Joke, nothing more.
@@thomashernandez8700 That was a quantum mechanics joke. Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment where a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. A hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.
@@bennyboogenheimer4553 It was, and it wasn't.
The first American I have EVER heard pronounce Leicestershire correctly. He's just perfect.
I live in Leicestershire! 😂
I was surprised he said Schenectady right lol
I don't get BBC- where can I stream this show?!?!
did you guys forget to pull the microphone out of your pockets in this part?
There could be a fan on in the room 🤷🏼♀️
@@AmandaJ__Probably, or a dehumidifier. It is an archive room, they need to keep the documents in good condition.
But where was the tavern?
Should be wearing cotton gloves when handling old records. Makes my heart drop every time I see it
I am very shocked also at this. I think there are quite a few of us who would wear gloves anyway just to preserve the sanctity of the document/historical item in hand.
There are 2 schools of thought. Some believe it's better to wear gloves to prevent skin oil transfer. But more and more places are practicing hand washing and bare hands because wearing gloves prohibits dexterity, leading to a greater likelihood of crumpling the pages.
Nyx773 - I should have also added to my statement “for of us with oily hands, to wear gloves” - but I am also at a point in my life where I would need help - shaky hands plagues some of us also.
Thats actually a misunderstanding, gloves are more likely the damage the parchment compared to the oils from the skin.
One thing I will have to always disclose there are quite a lot of us with Extremely Oily skin. I know if I ever am able to see such artifacts, if I can’t wear the gloves, I would want the presenter to show these items to me without me touching them. I am intelligent enough to know through dealing with this for many years now, my touch would end up destroying the paper the artifacts are on.
I am surprised that he handled the book without gloves considering how often we see him put his hands in his mouth
I thought that too. It was bound super well, overkill but it's a work of art. Those pages are stitched in and it must have been taken care of day one.
Where is Nick Offerman? I only see Ron Swanson.
Interestingly, women in medieval England could own property and such; My son told me Sir William Blackstone eliminated all that. That doesn't seem to be the case for at least the western states.
It's of no great importance, but one of my ancestors owned a tavern in New York City.
I do know of Dutch ( and one Huguenot family, to which one member gave a very ignorant etymology. Especially considering the French selling of the Name, and its resemblance to an ancient Gaulish tribe, still mentioned in Frankish History. )
Now all I need to do is find those mysterious Scandinavians who contributed to my DNA ( and a few other people ).
Claussen pickles?
"Lester"
Eechje is pronounced aa-gjù
Impressed Nick, as an American, can pronounce Leicestershire, but they can't fly the UK Union flag the right way up in P&R....
Considering Nick is a Mason, having a tavern in his family would have had special significance to him.
Lliterally is ron swanson
Audio guy getting fired after this
It’s really not that bad, I think there’s just a fan on in the room
Why aren't they wearing gloves to handle those old documents?!?!?
Believe it or not, the new school of thought is that rubber gloves cause more damage to the paper. This is because you lose a certain amount of sensitivity and can't gauge how much pressure you apply to the paper. This is more damaging than acidity produced from oils in the skin.
A cartography shop in Mayfair taught me this lol .
@@ashjones2627 Yes, wearing gloves makes it much more prone to tearing happening. The best solution is to clean your hands extensively and use your bare hands. The Royal Society in England does the exact same thing, and I would surmise that it is the norm now when dealing with books and paper and documents.
Gloves are still used when dealing with artifacts made out of things such as metal though.
Proud to be dutch
We conquered england be the best at sea making the origins of the usa..etc not bad for our little country
When did the Dutch conquer England?
@@MikeRoberts1964
I think it started in 1688.the dutch stadholder invaded england and the year after was king of england ( why do you think there are orange men in ireland??
@@MikeRoberts1964
Willem the 3rd or also knowhow as king Billy
He defeated the remains at the battle of the boyne i believe
@@MikeRoberts1964
He arrived at Brixham, Torbay, on 5 november 1688
@@MikeRoberts1964
Glorious revolution they call it
As an historian I am screaming at my computer - please wear gloves when handling old texts!
These days we don't use gloves because clean hands are better for the paper than gloves in the long end, lots less tearing happening with the added sensitivity of skin!
Funny how many “historians” are behind the times on the new document-handling standards 😂
@@michaeldukes4108 No need to throw shade - I am an accredited historian. In Australia we mostly still wear gloves. The oils from the hands are a problem, although I agree with the argument that a document is more likely to be torn if the user is wearing gloves. If the gloves are completely clean and fit well, however, I still prefer this method.
@@vylvylvyl8532 Yes, I agree with that. Still don't like it!
I'm for clean hands and no gloves.
I'm also for touching the pages as little as possible (i.e. not holding the book down and not running a finger across the page)
How are neither of them wearing gloves?
it’s not intuitive, but bare hands is better for old books and records than fabrics, believe it or not. if you ever get to visit a special collections in a library, you’re likely to see them handling them just like this!
@@mil3ston3s Yup! You wash your hands. If anything, the thing to criticise here is any face-touching, as it transfers oil to hands.
I don't see why anybody cares or thinks this guy Nick offerman is so great, at best he's a 3rd Rate actor
That's your opinion. I don't see the purpose of you coming here and stating that.
Offerman has made me laugh and entertained me, approximately hundreds of times, you Gary, have entertained me, exactly zero times.
@@groadoswaggins get wrecked Gary
@@Alexs.2599
Yes it is my opinon. It he wasany good he be working regulaly
@@AmandaJ__
I feel sorry for him being washed up