Thanks to IGSI Co-President Donna Jones for sharing this tip:

Kenneth Marks’ blog, The Ancestor Hunt, has a new post titled “The Best Way to Find Hidden Ancestor Articles in Historic Newspapers Online."

The article has a link to a free downloadable Quicksheet pdf. (Read the article here.) The pdf includes letter pairs often confused when the newspaper in scanned using OCR (optical character recognition).

The post indicates, “Overcome inaccurate OCR results! I guarantee that if you implement these tips, you will achieve more and better online newspaper search results (possibly up to 20% more) in your research!

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