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Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by genealogy with dana leeds - 16 Nov 2024
Do you read Russian and could you verify this? As we all know, AIs hallucinate, so we need to be careful. 🙂
I tried the same document with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and the results were similar, though! I also found these notes it gave me interesting:
A few notes about the translation:
✔️The Russian has ...
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Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog entry by lkessler - 15 Nov 2024
Back in February, I wrote Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting?. I tried the tool Transkribus which looked promising, but did not do well at all. I forgot all about this until I started working with my sister’s niece Kim on my sister’s husband’s genealogy. Kim successfully used the ...
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FamilySearch CETs - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Nov 2024
Here’s something new for those who would like to try it. FamilySearch has for a long time allowed uploads of private trees to its space called Genealogies.Those trees were searchable by others but were not editable. To update them, you had to upload a new tree. Quietly, FamilySearch has started a new ...
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RootsTech Day 1 - Blog comment by easygenogram - 24 Oct 2024
It sounds like you had a fantastic experience at the conference, connecting with key figures in the genealogy community and learning about the latest tools and updates! If you're interested in taking your family history research to the next level, I highly recommend checking out Qwoach’s EasyGenogram Tool. ...
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What’s Your CC7? - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Sep 2024
If you’re not a recent user of WikiTree, you might not be familiar with the term CC7. It stands for Connection Count at 7 Degrees. One “Degree” at WikiTree is defined to be a connection to a parent, sibling, child or spouse. Your connections up to 7 degrees are your shortest path to any other person. ...
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The Place Record in GEDCOM - Blog comment by jandrea - 18 Aug 2024
Another complication is that I want Winnipeg to have map coordinates and also City Hall to have its own map coordinates, and also any other place in the city such as the graveyards to have their own map coordinates.
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Creating a New Tree on MyHeritage - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 Jul 2024
MyHeritage is the site where I maintain my family tree information. I have one main tree for my family and my wife’s family along with a place-to-place study of the people who left the town of Mezhirichi in the Russian Empire in the early 1900’s to come to Winnipeg and their families. This tree now has ...
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Behold Version 1.99 Beta - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Jun 2024
Today, I released a new version of Behold. This has been a long time coming as I’ve been working on it off and on for the past number of years. I gave my last status report in February that had some thoughts as to where I’m taking Behold. I wasn’t planning on releasing Version 2.0 of Behold until it was ...
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My Biggest Brick Wall - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 May 2024
Will I break it now? Today on Facebook, Alex Krakovsky posted: Alex Krakovsky 34m · Yes, it's true. FamilySearch started publishing Jewish metrical records from the Odesa archive. Something that all of us were waiting for many many many years. So far they have published 81 books. 69 of ...
Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by lkessler - 16 Nov 2024