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Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers _ from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy to their own relatives.
Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers _ from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Kennedy to their own relatives.
Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers _ from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy to their own relatives.
"Given the complexity of their own language, reading and recognizing characters from other languages comes easier," he said.
Some of the work of transcribing handwritten census records into a computerized index was done by workers in an office outside the southern city of Dongguan with "very strong character recognition abilities," said Todd Jensen, who heads the document preservation service at Ancestry.com, a Provo, Utah-based family history company that's releasing the online New York census for 1940 using their new name index.
