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ClydellMorgan75  (View posts) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 2:46AM GMT
Classification: Query
I read a comment posted today and I have to comment once more. Since I got suckered into the year's membership, I thought perhaps I could at least search it to see if there could be something I could use. Once more, I was wrong!!!! Sure, the search will show a "hit" because the common Christian names and general surnames call for a "hit". They never tell you that the name Charles is independent and totally different from the surname - and so the search games goes. Oh yes - that is if you can actually find a newspaper searchable within the years and geography that you desire.

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LHSwisher  (View posts) Posted: 19 Apr 2009 3:35AM GMT
Classification: Query
It's not just newspaperarchives; this happens on Ancestry, GenealogyBank and others as well. I doubt they are deliberately misleading researchers; rather, the hits come up because that's the way the OCR software works.

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