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Sunday, February 23, 2020
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Speaker: Janeen Bjork Janeen Bjork will share her search methodology via several case studies that illustrate how anyone can find and preserve family items from online newspapers. The presentation begins with a lesson on OCR (optical character recognition, the technology that allows newspapers to be searched online), and how to get around its significant failure rate. It continues with best practices for conducting research in about a dozen popular newspaper resources. There will be examples and a walk through the websites that you’ll want to explore. If you leave out online newspapers from your genealogy research toolbox, you are missing out on ...

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