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<DIV><SPAN class=437490117-20072006><FONT color=#0000ff>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=437490117-20072006><FONT color=#0000ff>Pat</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> Wednesday, July 19, 2006
22:44<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>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
<EM>"...last August a bull was stolen from the xyz stockyard".
</EM>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
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<DIV>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"!</DIV>
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<DIV>Carla</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>