[or-roots] Look-up Augusta Bullard - Ancestry.com

[CKlooster at aol.com]

Pat...what I meant by "buggy" was that if you do a search for a specific  
name such as "Augusta Bullard" in the periodical section of Ancestry, you may  
get a hit and bring up the edition in question and find a story that reads  
"...last August a bull was stolen from the xyz stockyard".   There are search 
engines with OCR programs that are more discriminating  than Ancestry's is.  Those 
of us who use the full Ancestry service are  aware of this little twist, but 
it's still often a disappointment when you find  several promising hits in the 
right time frame only to find that the search  engine spotted portions of 
words in proximity and reached an erroneous  conclusion!  This is true whether 
you are doing a ranked search or a search  for a specific name...by the way, I 
did do specific name searches with various  of the given Bullard names before I 
resorted to a broader search.
 
But you are right...sometimes the stories are interesting even if it isn't  
the person being sought.  I got a kick out of the story about the good  
reverend...brings a whole new meaning to the term "Bible thumping".  And to  think 
that a fraternal order of Druids were cavorting on the banks of the  Willamette 
in the 1880's...  Apparently there is nothing new about the "New  Age"!
 
Carla
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