[or-roots] Look-up Augusta Bullard - Ancestry.com
Kith-n-Kin
Kith-n-Kin at cox.net
Thu Jul 20 10:04:15 PDT 2006
I think we agree here -- but I haven't had experience with an OCR that does any better on old newspapers
and other periodicals, including some books.
Pat
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Look-up Augusta Bullard - Ancestry.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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