Please join us for Tri-City Genealogical Society’s September General meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10. The presentation will be at the Richland FamilySearch Center located at 1314A Goethals Dr. Entrance is down the ramp from the parking lot that is to the north of Dairy Queen. The presentation will also be on Zoom so you can join in from the comfort of your own home. See below for the Zoom link.
The September TCGS General meeting will be on the topic of archival newspapers. There are several websites that are focused on using optical character recognition (OCR) to search their scanned newspaper collections. Newspapers.com, GenealogyBank.com, MyHeritage (OldNews.com) and to a small extent FamilySearch all have scanned newspaper articles. This presentation will focus on Oldnews.com and their efforts to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) to summarize articles and, if so desired, integrate the results into MyHeritage trees. Oldnews.com features a diverse range of publications from local, national, and international news from across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and European countries such as Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and more, with extensive coverage of the 1800s and 1900s. The title of the presentation is Uncovering the Past with AI: How MyHeritage Extracts Historical Records from Newspapers presented by Maya Geier.
Topic: TCGS General Meeting September 10 at 7 p.m.
Time: Sep 10, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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