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A New(?) Genealogy Program –Treebard - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Mar 2024

One of the reasons why I closed GenSoftReviews last year was because the development of new programs for genealogy had been drying up. There are so many full featured genealogy programs available to choose from that there is hardly any task that at least some of them could do. And with the onset about 10 ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024

Hi Dave, Yes, you have outlined several of the challenges that AI will have interpreting handwriting. These are all likely one-day solvable, for example with regards to your point on penmanship, an algorithm may have to be trained on the writings of individual people first before it can be generalized. ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 3 Mar 2024

Typo from my last comment. Sentence should read: "Reliance on only one or two university professors ... "
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 1 Mar 2024

Greetings Louis. In a pre-AI world of web-based, transcribed, census records, successful transcriptions were governed by what I believe were four main factors. 1. Census Enumeration Accuracy; 2. Census Enumerator's Penmanship; 3. Digitization Scan Quality; and 4. Transcriber's ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by paulbaltzer - 27 Feb 2024

Louis, Thanks for the update and review of the latest Artificial Intelligence with handwriting. We are all hoping and amazed how fast this technology is improving. Paul Baltzer
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Behold, My Genealogy, and Syncing - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Feb 2024

Over the past several months, I’ve been back to work on the next version of Behold. I’m hoping to release the next major version in the next …  - okay, a programmer knows better than to promise a release date, but let’s say as soon as it’s ready. Keep an eye on Behold’s Future page to follow my ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Feb 2024

There’s been a lot of talk the last year or so about the use of Artificial Intelligence for Genealogy. I’ve basically taken a laissez faire wait-and-see attitude towards it. Most of the applications of AI for genealogy are designed to save you time, maybe by drafting out a biography for you or doing image ...
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Continuing Education 2023 - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Dec 2023

Last January, the Association of Professional Genealogists  @APGgenealogy started requiring that members report at least 12 hours of Continuing Education each year. I found the task of listing my CE time for 2022 quite interesting and last January I posted what I had done. Below is my Continuing Education ...
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Testing Out MyHeritage’s New AI Biographer - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2023

My previous post ran through MyHeritage’s new AI Record Finder tool. Now I’m going to try out the other tool MyHeritage released today. You can find their blog post describing the AI Biographer here: Introducing AI Biographer™: Create a Wikipedia-like biography for any ancestor using AI, enriched with ...
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A Quick Attempt of MyHeritage’s New AI Record Finder - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2023

You may not have heard of this yet, but MyHeritage has just launched their new AI Record Finder. I got the email from them about it earlier today. Rather than me describe it, you can read about it on MyHeritage’s blog post:  Introducing AI Record Finder™, the World’s First AI Chat-Based Search Engine ...