{"id":7485,"date":"2018-09-01T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2018-09-01T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:02:18","slug":"searching-for-popular-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Popular Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ancestry.com<\/em> recently released an update to their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1265\">U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990<\/a>&#8221; database.<\/p>\n<p>There are popular students in high school and\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> has them in their index of these yearbooks. An unexact search for &#8220;popular student&#8221; resulted in 252 hits. Of course not all of them were named &#8220;popular student.&#8221; I&#8217;m not certain how many of the students were actually popular. Names included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Ole Student<\/li>\n<li>Deb Golden Student<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. United Way Student<\/li>\n<li>President Bearer Stretcher Student<\/li>\n<li>President Body Student<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/popular-student.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/popular-student.jpg 929w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/popular-student-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/popular-student-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good time to remember that indexes at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> usually get created in one of three ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>volunteers&#8211;these are normally indexes that\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> uses via an agreement from\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em><\/li>\n<li>paid indexers&#8211;contracted by\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em><\/li>\n<li>OCR technology&#8211;the computer scans the text (used for typed records)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The OCR technology often picks up as names phrases that are not names at all (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10470501?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fcollections%2Fyearbooksindex%2F%3Fname%3Dpotatoe_head\">search for Potatoe Head and see what you find<\/a>).\u00a0 That&#8217;s actually a small research price to pay for indexes that include tens of thousands of pages and certainly beats manual searching.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing how an index is created helps researchers to use those indexes more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not it makes them popular is another question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com recently released an update to their &#8220;U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990&#8221; database. There are popular students in high school and\u00a0Ancestry.com has them in their index of these yearbooks. An unexact search for &#8220;popular student&#8221; resulted in 252 hits. Of course not all of them were named &#8220;popular student.&#8221; I&#8217;m not certain how many of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}