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- Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:21 pm
- Forum: Requests
- Topic: Archives numerisees de Paris
- Replies: 3
- Views: 100930
Re: Archives numerisees de Paris
If you discover typewritten documents in this online collection, please let me know, and we can see whether OCR would be helpful. Unfortunately, for handwritten documents, OCR is likely to be useless, except possibly for a large quantity of documents written by a single person (a single notary with ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:10 pm
- Forum: Notes
- Topic: 1871 Lwow Address Directory
- Replies: 0
- Views: 38569
1871 Lwow Address Directory
A large part of this directory (http://www.sbc.katowice.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=8636) does not include personal names, but is nonetheless very useful for genealogists, since it contains a correspondence between older house numbers and newer street addresses. House numbers appear frequently in 19th ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:50 pm
- Forum: Notes
- Topic: 1913 Galicia Business Directory
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47321
1913 Galicia Business Directory
The website hosting the 1913 Galicia Business Directory is sometimes very slow to display the images, when you try to change the image number. If this happens to you, be patient. Type the image number you want once and wait. After a few minutes (literally), it should be displayed. If you have a lot ...
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:55 pm
- Forum: What does ... mean?
- Topic: Business-activity translations
- Replies: 4
- Views: 49041
Re: Business-activity translations
Assuming you have already checked the occupation translation resources in the first post in this forum , you could also try machine translation at: http://translate.google.com http://poltran.com Machine translation probably will not work for abbreviations. To decipher abbreviations, check the occupa...
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:47 pm
- Forum: How do I...?
- Topic: 1929 Poland & Danzig Bus Dir?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 36291
Re: 1929 Poland & Danzig Bus Dir?
Many users encounter this problem with the website that displays the 1929 directory. There were instructions in the Genealogy Indexer Help section explaining how to get around this, but, since it seems that most people do not read the Help, I have changed the links to the 1929 directory to go direct...
- Tue May 26, 2009 11:05 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Webmasters: get a search box for your site
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32252
Webmasters: get a search box for your site
Webmasters can now incorporate custom Genealogy Indexer search boxes into their own websites. To get the HTML to paste into your site, just perform a search as usual, with {html} appended (or, if you are already including options surrounded by {}, add html to the list of options, as in {d82,d83,html...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:00 pm
- Forum: Notes
- Topic: 1930 Lithuania Telephone Directory
- Replies: 0
- Views: 47486
1930 Lithuania Telephone Directory
Since the 1930 Lithuania Telephone Directory is organized by locality, if you are only interested in a few small places, you might prefer to manually search those places' entries, rather than rely on the full-text search across the entire directory, which is not 100% accurate (due to OCR inaccuracie...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:12 am
- Forum: Notes
- Topic: 1935 Lithuania Telephone Directory
- Replies: 0
- Views: 42820
1935 Lithuania Telephone Directory
Since the 1935 Lithuania Telephone Directory is organized by locality, if you are only interested in a few small places, you might prefer to manually search those places' entries, rather than rely on the full-text search across the entire directory, which is not 100% accurate (due to OCR inaccuracie...
- Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:08 pm
- Forum: Notes
- Topic: 1938 Lithuania Telephone Directory
- Replies: 0
- Views: 44232
1938 Lithuania Telephone Directory
Since the 1938 Lithuania Telephone Directory is organized by locality, if you are only interested in a few small places, you might prefer to manually search those places' entries, rather than rely on the full-text search across the entire directory, which is not 100% accurate (due to OCR inaccuracie...
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:11 am
- Forum: Related sites
- Topic: English and Welsh directories
- Replies: 0
- Views: 30348
English and Welsh directories
http://www.historicaldirectories.org has an enormous collection of searchable directories from England and Wales.
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