Gary, For the past two days I have been engrossed in the Baltimore Sun using GenealogyBank.com. There have been some fantastic finds -- vignettes, court cases, obits, real estate transactions, etc. that would have taken countless hours of researching otherwise. Thanks so much for the suggestion! I can hardly wait for for to be digitized! Cynthia -----Original Message----- >From: "g.ruppert@att.net" <g.ruppert@att.net> >Sent: Apr 6, 2007 12:55 PM >To: md-baltimorecity@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] Baltimore Sun Paper digitized > >I'm glad to see that there has been a healthy response to this post. Obviously not everyone agrees, but I personally think that GenealogyBank.com's on-line version of the Sun provides a gold-mine of information. I know I have found a remarkable bounty of data on my family despite having already undertaken 30 years of research. And ... I have just barely begun! > >There are a few issues. The scans have obviously been made from microfilm and are not of the highest quality but I have yet to find something that was not legible. Also the search function is a little odd. I think it works not on character recognition but rather on the shape or morphology of a word. For example, I had no problem with unique shaped words like Ruppert, Buchheimer and Holdefer. There were perfect matches. But, when I entered Heise, I got matches to Hesse, Reese, Horse and even Ladies! > >The other quirky thing is the Zoom feature. For some reason the default is set to a minimum size and sometimes Zooming actually freezes up the screen necessitating a restart. > >Despite these minor negatives, I believe the price of $20 per month (or less on a monthly basis if you take a longer subscription) is well worth it. > >In addition, GenealogyBank.com has a lot more than just images of the Sun. I have made a numer of hits off the Historical Documents database which contains a lot of scanned federal records (very high quality) that I would never have thought to search on my own. > >Happy Easter! > >Gary >6 April 2007 >Baltimore >http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message