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Elaine: I think in my case, the text was so small that the Hebrew OCR had trouble recognizing the characters. That's why scanning at 600 dpi helped. I suspect if the text would have been larger, the translations would have been much better. It also was difficult for Google, Bing and Yandex to differentiate ...

Steve: Thanks, but I don't have an affiliate link for Shotbox. If you want to purchase a Shotbox, you might still be able to take advantage of their RootsTech special: https://rootstech.shotbox.me/

Yinwang: I compared both by RSID and by position. In one comparison between two files, for example, I noted to myself that 299 RSIDs had changed at the same position, and that 3 RSIDs had different positions. But mentioning that in the article would have been off-topic and would only have complicated what I ...

tsturg: Yes. See my blog post from 10 Apr 2020: Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests: https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3305 - I've now added this into my "followups" at the end of the article.

cconser: I am strongly of the opinion that formatting and punctuation have no place in GEDCOM. GEDCOM is for transferring data. Formatting and punctuation should be left up to your software. It should decide how it wants to display something. You should not force anything on it. See my article: ...

cconser: I wrote a bit about it in my 2015 article: Is GEDCOM Good For Sources? https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=1480

Uwe: There's never a guarantee that data in a shared tree is accurate, just like there isn't a guarantee that the data in anyone's family research is accurate. But there's nothing wrong with any of us contributing to a tree to help make it more accurate. They key for me is that I at least want my family ...

Hi Uwe, I'm putting my information, which I trust, up on FamilySearch, for others to access and possibly connect to. I always evaluate any information I get from FamilySearch (or from anyone else's genealogy for that matter) before adding it to my family tree. Louis

Yes, Colin. Today they removed everything. Don't know why yet.

I agree with you, Uwe. My next post (which I'm working on now) is going to be titled "Fiction versus Fact".