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Further experiments with AI and genealogical documents

A recent 2nd cousin DNA match (click here for that story) inspired me to explore German records from Bavaria. So I decided to try AI to read the handwriting and translate it. First however, I did some more work on my Norwegians.


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Working with the Norwegian Farmbooks and AI

My past process to get a translation of what a Norwegian farm book says about my ancestors and their farm was somewhat laborious. First I made a good scan of the page, then I used a Norwegian OCR program to get the text extracted, and finally I asked google to translate that resulting text. Often the result sounded stilted and certain words did not translate correctly, like f...


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An unknown father case has led to an arrest
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My Fastest Father Find Ever

Randi contacted me for help finding her unknown biological father. I advised her to test at Ancestry and get back in touch when her results were ready.

When they came in, it took...


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My Newly Found Half Second Cousin Once Removed

A few months ago, my family had a good DNA match (about 151 cm for my aunt) at 23andme to our Bavarian side. This was Mary, who had been adopted as a baby back in 1950 from a Munich orphanage. She knew her birth mother’s name but not her father’s. She had no other sig...


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