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<DIV><SPAN class=828031314-19072006><FONT
color=#0000ff>Carla</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=828031314-19072006><FONT color=#0000ff>I know you aren't
bashing Ancestry, but in this case, it l</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=828031314-19072006><FONT color=#0000ff>ooks to me as though you got just
what you asked for! Outside of the billiards and so on, you asked for
Bullard and Oregonian, and that's what you got.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=828031314-19072006><FONT color=#0000ff>The recognition
software, in this case, is problematic not because it is necessarily buggy, but
because of what it has to work with. All you have to do is take an old
newspaper, scan it into your computer and OCR it, or make a PDF and OCR that,
look at the result, and you will see what I mean. Between the soft paper, smeary
ink, folds, and so on, it's a wonder anything gets read
properly.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=828031314-19072006><FONT color=#0000ff>I only mention this
because I don't want people to *not* try the newspaper files in looking for
information. You do get a lot of ads and other odd information that has nothing
to do with your subject, but every once in awhile you come up a winner. I found
one paper in St. Joseph, Michigan that gave me the history of one entire line
over a period of thirty years. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=828031314-19072006><FONT color=#0000ff>Another advantage, by
the way, is to read the "other headlines" and articles to get a feel of "why
something happened". I had a fellow who was declared bankrupt, but
couldn't figure out why. Then, I found that a railroad he had been involved in
was declared bankrupt also. His name wasn't in the article on the railroad, but
in an article a few years earlier he is found petitioning the township to bring
in the railroad. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=828031314-19072006><FONT color=#0000ff>Pat (in
Tucson)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>CKlooster@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 18, 2006
22:56<BR><B>To:</B> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[or-roots] Look-up Augusta Bullard - Ancestry.com<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
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<DIV>Having a fascination with a speedy new Internet connection, I did a
"quick" lookup on Ancestry.com for Bullard in Oregon with keyword
Oregonian. I found thirty-eight articles referenced and (yawn) looked at
all of them. Now I'm not going to begin a bash of Ancestry.com because
I've found a lot of clues to many different lines on that site...BUT...I've
never found anything of value in the old newspaper searches. This was no
exception.</DIV>
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<DIV>The recognition software is considerably buggy and recognizes all sorts
of odd combinations. In this instance it found billiards, ballards
(Oregon's Governor Ballard made the paper frequently), bustards and a couple
of Bullards out of state...including one who robbed a bank in Boston and one
who attested to the efficacy of a patent medicine in a repeating
advertisment. The only Bullards referenced in Oregon were A.J. Bullard
who was an officer of an odd lodge that met in Druid Hall and his name
appeared in the published meeting notices...frequently. There was an
article about a Rev. H. Bullard who was charged with assaulting one S.S. Call
in a religious argument... S.S. Call was an "Adventist" and Rev. Bullard
wanted him to stop preaching...so he apparently whapped his head a few
times on the floor of the blacksmith shop where Call worked. Several
editions of the Oregonian carried the continuation of that story. One
article referenced the founding of a lodge in Washington state; one of the
founders was a Mrs. Job Bullard and the lodge was the Willapa branch so I'm
assuming it was in Pacific County. There was a brief mention in another
article of Bullard Ranch as a proposed county seat...but I couldn't read which
county...or even which state. There was a later reference to Bullard's
beach. Obituaries for the surname Bullard are recent and mostly
associated with the Kiser family.</DIV>
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<DIV>So there you go!</DIV>
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<DIV>Carla</DIV>
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