The Familysearch website has introduced a new experimental AI search facilty that renders old, largely unintelligible, hand written documents 'searchable', available online here:
It is still under development and can only be used on a [fairly large] selection of Familysearch records but already it is yielding impressive results - some screen shots below show a text search for Douglas with * wildcards for possible variants:
AI enhanced search facility for text in old hand written historical records - Familysearch website
by Ronald Drysdale
Nov 3, 2024
Hi all,
The Familysearch website has introduced a new experimental AI search facilty that renders old, largely unintelligible, hand written documents 'searchable', available online here:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/
It is still under development and can only be used on a [fairly large] selection of Familysearch records but already it is yielding impressive results - some screen shots below show a text search for Douglas with * wildcards for possible variants:
Best regards