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GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its updates for last month. There are 25 New Titles and 6 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: Here are some of the details about our most recent U.S. newspaper additions: To see our newspaper archives’ entire title list of more than […]
Not all newspaper distortions occur within the body of an article. Some appear in headlines, memorial notices, advertisements, and decorative boxes where editors used ornamental typefaces and extended dashes to attract attention. While these designs looked elegant in print, they often confuse modern OCR software. Names surrounded by decorative symbols, stretched across a page, or […]
The most important clue in the record may never have been transcribed. Genealogy websites make it easy to search millions of historical records using transcriptions and indexes. These summaries are invaluable because they help researchers locate records in seconds. But a transcription is only a summary of the original document. It may omit important information, […]
In digitized newspapers, text doesn’t always stay in its proper place. When columns are close together—or when there are borders, rules, or advertisements—OCR software can mistakenly pull words from a neighboring column or ad and attach them to the wrong article. This creates “phantom” names: people who appear in a story but who were never […]
One missing record rarely means the answer is lost forever. Every genealogist eventually searches for a record that cannot be found. Perhaps a birth record is missing. A marriage record was never located. A census page appears to have disappeared. After enough unsuccessful searches, it is easy to believe that the missing record has brought […]
Not every newspaper distortion originates with the reporter, typesetter, or editor. Some occur decades later when historic newspapers are digitized and scanned. If a page is slightly tilted, folded, warped, or poorly aligned during scanning, OCR software may struggle to determine where one column ends and another begins. The result can be a jumbled reconstruction […]
When the timeline doesn’t make sense, your conclusion probably doesn’t either One of the most effective genealogy tools is also one of the most overlooked—a simple timeline. Researchers often collect records one at a time without arranging them in chronological order. As a result, impossible dates, conflicting events, and mistaken identities can go unnoticed. A […]
Sometimes a name is spelled correctly—almost. A single pair of letters may be reversed during typesetting, transcription, or OCR processing, creating a variation that looks obvious to the human eye but completely invisible to a search engine. These transposition errors occur when letters switch places within a word, producing names that appear legitimate at a […]