The Rest of the Story: Finding your Family in Online Newspapers
Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York CityJaneen Bjork will share her search methodology using several case studies to illustrate the techniques of finding and preserving family items from online newspapers. She will discuss OCR (optical character recognition, the technology that allows newspapers to be searched online), and how to work around its significant failure rate. Other topics will include best practices for searching in popular newspaper…
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