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Tag Archives: errors found
Error in digitizing WWII draft cards
How do I find these errors???? Errors, errors, everywhere! Here’s the WWII draft card of the father of one of my clients. She had shown me a picture of her dad; I knew he wasn’t a tall man. Yet, the … Continue reading
Digital catalogs sometimes misread handwriting
I regularly find errors in digital catalogs that resulted from someone misreading a handwritten entry and incorrectly transliterating it into text. Looking for Taube Josefowicz? Better check Tanbe Jozefowicz. It’s no accident that I stumbled upon the ship manifest for … Continue reading
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