Digital images are great, but one shouldn’t get too hasty when using them. It can be easy to make mistakes.
Recently I was using digital images of German church records. I had zoomed in to read the records better and kept on scanning down the set of images that popped up on my screen after I hit the “next” button. I just kept doing that. It was several minutes later that I realized because of the magnification I had chosen, I was only scrolling down the right hand page. I was not looking at the left hand image at all. I had to go back and start over.
Always orient yourself to the records carefully before viewing them, particularly when it’s a new set of records. Always zoom all the way out to make certain you are viewing the entire image.
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