Posts in November 2, 2020

Keyword searches of digital images of newspapers are a great way for the genealogist to discover things that before would have been virtually impossible to find. Proximity searches (when allowed) for other specific words close to the actual word of interest can be a great way to narrow search results. But it’s always best when the human reads the material for themselves and determines what is said. Don’t just take the automatically created entry items from the newspaper reference. Read them for yourself. Otherwise you get Ugustus T. Haase born in Hanover, Qt-many in 1835 and dying in Dakota County, 62 years. Automated created “family entries” can help the researcher make discoveries. Just make certain to look at the discovery for yourself to discover what it actually says. […]