Comments on: A New Road Home? Canadian City and Area Directories, 1819–1906

By: Paul Rawlins

Paul Rawlins — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:20:06 +0000

#4 & 5 BEE and Pat,

I’m not a search fundi, so I don’t know all the ins and outs of it, but on databases like this that are based on OCR (optical character recognition), the searches won’t be as exact. So no, it’s not just you. It’s a bit of a tradeoff—the OCR opens access to lots of information (it’s used sometimes for books and newspapers, for example), but the records can take a little more work to sort through.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:26:50 +0000

Good stuff! I greatly prefer it when you focus on acquiring more of the records researchers want, rather than fiddling with the mechanics of the site. It’s true that the search on this database isn’t very effective, but, what the heck, I can still find what I want.

By: Pat Secord

Pat Secord — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:13:35 +0000

#4 Bee – No, it’s not just you. I guess the system doesn’t realize that the two names should go together and picks up anything that matches. Very frustrating!

By: BEE

BEE — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:02:26 +0000

Is it just me? When I search these and other records, a page comes up with the first name high-lighted throughout the page, along with the surname, but not necessarily together. In other words, what looks like a record for someone I’m researching, really isn’t!
Also, what’s become of “Recent Genealogy Database” – not a single entry since 6/23.

By: Dubai Blog

Dubai Blog — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:16:24 +0000

These records are really interesting. I believe if these records are correct then their would be a lot of people who would be associated to these records in Canada. They might be unaware of their association with these records.

By: BEE

BEE — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:42:01 +0000

Any possibility the “Commenting is open until…..” could appear next to the name of the person writing the article, along with the number of new comments added each day?
Although I guess it does keep my “senior” brain working as I scroll down to the bottom of each blog trying to remember how many posts there were previously, if something new has been added, or if that particular one is now closed?
Don’t plan to get into “tweeting”, so I don’t know what those comments are all about…..

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:34:07 +0000

WOW I just logged on to the home page and all the letter S’s were dollar signs crazy