How do you see these many details expanding our understanding of the people who were subjugated by the system of slavery? The

potential for it, I think, is remarkable because what we're able to do is to essentially use the database and the records as they're kept presently on Ancestry to find connections in ways that would have been much more labor intensive using the paper records.

So now you're able to go on and identify where persons are and try and find lines of family connections that way.

For us at the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL, we're also really interested in the potential of understanding community stories.

What happened to these areas where certain social networks were forged in these particular places where slavery existed? And how can we look very, very detailed or rather do detailed comparisons of across one place or even across multiple colonies.

That's really, I think, one of the great potential game changers of this kind of material, now that we have it digitized in the way that it's now digitized.

Historians have been using this material for a very long time.

What impact could these four million records have on those efforts, do you think?

How do you see these many details expanding our understanding of the people who were subjugated by the system of slavery? The potential

for it, I think, is remarkable because what we're able to do is to essentially use the database and the records as they're kept presently on Ancestry to find connections in ways that would have been much more labor intensive using the paper records.

So now you're able to go on and identify where persons are and try and find lines of family connections that way.

For us at the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL, we're also really interested in the potential of understanding community stories.

What happened to these areas where certain social networks were forged in these particular places where slavery existed? And how can we look very, very detailed or rather do detailed comparisons of across one place or even across multiple colonies.

That's really, I think, one of the great potential game changers of this kind of material, now that we have it digitized in the way that it's now digitized.

Historians have been using this material for a very long time.

What impact could these four million records have on those efforts, do you think?

So tell me a little bit about what are the archival sources in the Caribbean and what would you be looking for particularly in them?

Well, the Caribbean is really surprising to lots of people outside the Caribbean.

It has a very strong archival tradition.

Some of that sort of has been a consequence or legacy, if you will, of colonialism.

But even in the national period, it's not as if when colonialism ended, people just didn't invest in the archives.

I think what you had was actually a strengthening of archives and libraries in the Caribbean, the colonial era when we got to the period of independence.

And a lot of that's because people understood that in the archives you could find the details of the story of a nation, the story of a people, the many different ways people have gone through These very difficult histories that we face in the Caribbean from slavery, colonialism, climate change, environmental disaster, regime change, dictatorships, and so on, depending on where you are.

But what you're saying is it's much more complex than that in terms of ethnicity or

Yeah.

The, the last time I looked, I'm doing about 25 cases a year.

So I feel like that's enough volume to have some confidence with it, but, you know, I, I wouldn't profess to be an expert.

Um, so I, I think for people who've got baro challenge symptoms, so they typically have a type A tymp, I think the ETD Q7 isn't helpful for looking at this group, 'cause the vast majority of the time they're fine if they haven't been exposed to the baro challenge.

Um, and the best ones are people with an occupational use, so pilots, divers, cabin crew, and about 80% of them will have a clinically meaningful improvement following a, a balloon dilation tube plasty.

For the patulous patients, obviously you don't balloon them.

We try not to balloon them.

I don't know what your experience is.