How to Find Ancestors In Newspapers When It's Hard - OCR Problem
Are you having trouble finding your ancestors in digitized newspapers? OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program inserts errors into the database. But, you can get around this! In this tutorial, Devon Noel Lee explains four methods to do genealogy research in historical papers despite these challenges. These strategies work on Newspapers.com but also help researchers using Chronicling America, NewspaperArchives, GenealogyBank, Google News Archives, and more.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Challenges of Scanned Newspapers
03:51 Filter by time and place
04:30 OCR substitutes
05:22 Searching for a Name With OCR Substitutes
06:25 Cluster research
08:00 Stumble-Upon Method
09:25 Read Everything
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