Ancestry Taps AI to Sift Through Millions of Obituaries

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Ancestry used artificial intelligence to extract obituary details hidden in a half-billion digitized newspaper pages dating back to 1690, data invaluable for customers building their family trees

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The family history and consumer-genomics company, based in Lehi, Utah, began the project in late 2017 and introduced the new functionality last month. Through its subsidiary Newspapers.com, the company had a trove of newspaper pages, including obituaries—but it said that manually finding and importing those death notices to Ancestry.com...Sign in or subscribe for access to peerless insight & analysis, curated data & interactives, and networking events.

 

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