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 interesting! First time I've seen the use of ChatGBT where I know I'll try it out. Great information in general, too!
Excellent excellent presentation! Am dealing with transcribing and translating handwritten journals and this gave me some great ideas. Love the newspaper websites and now have more tools to use them effectvely.
Interesting way to transcribe German newspapers, as the font is always so hard to read.
great demonstrations using online newspaper portals and ChatGPT to translate.
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!
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.
Oh, can't wait to try this out!
This topic was difficult to follow, especially for beginners. I thought the Mary Roddy was a good presenter but this topic was difficult for me to follow not knowing the terminology nor German script.