{"id":573,"date":"2024-12-31T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=573"},"modified":"2024-12-31T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:30:52","slug":"familysearch-full-text-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2024\/12\/familysearch-full-text-search\/","title":{"rendered":"FamilySearch Full Text Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/edge.fscdn.org\/assets\/static\/media\/man-searching-record-art.be72fb1460f3c03c74d2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"291\" \/>At RootsTech 2024, FamilySearch announced a new full text search that uses AI to transcribe images of handwritten and typed text into machine-readable format. This allows searching before any indexing is done. It also allows the searching of relatively unstructured content, not just lists of birth, death, and marriage events.<\/p>\n<p>Searching is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/full-text\">https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/full-text<\/a>. You&#8217;ll need to create a FamilySearch account if you don&#8217;t already have one.<\/p>\n<p>A large amount of content has been transcribed. See the full list at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/full-text\/collection\/list\">https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/full-text\/collection\/list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had fun searching. The transcriptions aren&#8217;t perfect, but they are enough to access image groups that I wouldn&#8217;t have discovered any other way. I&#8217;m then happy to explore and make my own transcriptions based on the AI-provided one. Some of the dates allotted to images don&#8217;t seem to be very accurate. I&#8217;ll report on some of these discoveries in future posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At RootsTech 2024, FamilySearch announced a new full text search that uses AI to transcribe images of handwritten and typed text into machine-readable format. This allows searching before any indexing is done. It also allows the searching of relatively unstructured <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2024\/12\/familysearch-full-text-search\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}