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James Tanner's Blog – March 2010 Archive (23)

Google completes 500,000 volume digitization project with University of Texas

In a recent post on Inside Google Books, Google announced completion of their digitization

project with the University of Texas Libraries and the inclusion of over

500,000 unique Latin American volumes…

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Added by James Tanner on March 7, 2010 at 2:01pm — No Comments

Experiment confirms New FamilySearch hypothesis

The following observations are not intended to be critical of the New FamilySearch

program or its programmers. It appears, that despite their best efforts,

the relatively unsophisticated users of the program do not understand

or cannot follow the instructions and can thereby ignorantly produce

extensive duplication.



Having observed thousands of Ordinance Cards printed from New… Continue

Added by James Tanner on March 6, 2010 at 8:05pm — No Comments

Record Search adds records from Illinois and the Netherlands

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Record Search has added over 500,000 records from the Cook County,

Illinois Birth Certificate records. The collection includes the City of

Chicago and covers the time period from 1878 to 1922 containing over 1.5

million names. New records were also added to the Netherlands, Gelderland

Province Civil Registration. The collection… Continue

Added by James Tanner on March 2, 2010 at 6:18pm — No Comments

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