Hi Barbara, The transcriptions of the newspaper notices have been done BY A COMPUTER.. which will soon spell the end of volunteers endlessly typing up notices..and indexes.. The Program that reads the notices and actually converts it to typed words, is called OCR which stands for Optical Character Recognition... The most clever part of this program is that the computer can LEARN.actual recognition of letters and words.. The notices in the newspapers often have blobs of ink and worn out type and the OCR machine has difficulty reading those and takes a guess.. The early versions of OCR, when I was working and perhaps maybe still in existence, was like a wand that you would swipe across what you wanted read..and it would convert it to the typed word, or numbers.. Supermarkets use it constantly in swiping your groceries at the checkout...to total up the price of your groceries. This action also deducts that piece of stock from the stock on hand, and adds that same item to an order for a replacement of whatever you bought to the stores pending restocking purchase.. Its all about technology taking over a lot of the manual labour... There is a facility on the newspaper website where anyone who reads an article with errors, can actually correct the errors. Eventually all the typos and incorrect spellings will be corrected by private volunteers, such as me, when I read an article that interests me. I hope that clarifies it for you, and anyone else who is puzzled. Cheers Gay - Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Robinson" <bro51909@bigpond.net.au> To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] CAHILL families > Thank you for putting that site address up, it is interesting, but can > anyone tell me who has typed these notices the spelling is bad, lots of > typos, is it the type of programme or is it being done in a cheap Asian > country with no knowledge of the English language andspelling > > Barbara > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara OConnor" <maurie777@ozemail.com.au> > To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:34 PM > Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] CAHILL families > > >> At http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?searchTerm=cahill+springsure >> you >> will find a number of references. >> >> Cheers >> Barbara >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.20/2249 - Release Date: 07/19/09 > 17:59:00 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >