Translating German Newspapers – As Easy as Eins, Zwei, Drei
Mary Kircher Roddy, CG, CGG
Content
Welcome
25s
Speaker's Introduction
32s
Introduction
13m 43s
Process
11m 4s
Using AI
12m 45s
Where to find the OCR
15m 8s
Announcements / prizes
1m 46s
Questions / answers
3m 58s
About this webinar
Many 19th- and early 20th-century German language newspapers were printed in a Fraktur font. And not only that, they were written in a foreign language! This combination of an archaic font and a foreign language creates two significant hurdles for the 21st century genealogist, perhaps with limited foreign language skills, to overcome. But don’t despair. Modern technology has provided solutions. Learn how to "crack the code" and discover where your favorite newspaper sites have hidden the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text. Translation tools will quickly make those foreign words readable for even the most die-hard English-only speaker.
About the speaker
Mary Kircher Roddy, CG became interested in family history in 2000 in anticipation of her husband’s sabbatical at the University of Limerick in Ireland. While she didn’t learn everything about her anc...
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Comments (59)
Very, very informative. Lots of good information to help in lots of different search sites..a gold mine!!
Very helpful
I know German and can read Fraktur yet I learned a lot from this presentation - how to find the important words to get the meaning of a phrase or sentence.
Really enjoyed Mary Kircher Roddy's webinar. Very clear, jam-packed, orgnaized presentation with lots of resources and so muchnew information using AI to translate! Loved it! Thanks you!
Very timely with use of Chatgpt to translate. And great to be shown where to find the metadata on Genealogy bank.com
I learned a lot. I have issues with translating German - have my own list of this means that. I have been leary of AI and she just shredded that notion - I will give it an opportunity to help me. Thank you.
Excellent handout. I have made copies of newspaper articles in German. Now I have a method to transcribe them. Thanks.
Mary's information was very clear and concise. I appreciated her showing where to find the OCR button in each newspaper site.