My Heritage Book Matching

Legacy Family Tree offers free webinars. Friday's was presented by Mike Mansfield from My Heritage and was title New Book Matching Technology at MyHeritage.  It was very informative and I just had to try it out.

I chose the name Alexander Maitland, figuring it would find stuff on my great-great grandfather, born in 1839 in Toronto and died in 1924 in Missouri. Sure enough, it did, it brought up the 1914 History of Northwest Missouri, but only two pages. Alex's bio extended over 4 pages. The nice thing about their book matching, it gives you the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in a nice copy and paste available box, which you can than copy and paste into your genealogy program. You can print the page, you can download it, and it works just fine.

If you would like to watch this webinar, the link is here at Family Tree Webinars.

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If They Can't Read It?

 I found this page (The Basia Project) as a link on the Poznan Project. The Basia Project is wonderful for looking up indexed records, mainly because there is a link to the scan of the actual record. And they aren't limited to just marriage records like the Poznan Project. It includes birth, baptism, marriage and death records, both church and civil records.

I found a marriage record for Anna Klijewska, daughter of Leon Klijewski and Appolonia Pilarska. It sort of blew me away since I never found a birth record for her. Anna married Valentin Jednoral, or maybe General or Genczal or Jednoralski. I'm not really too sure because who can read the darn record, and obviously the indexer can't! And I thought Ancestry's indexing was the worst.

The sampling is rather limited at this time, but who knows when the information will show up that you need.

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