{"id":978,"date":"2015-09-01T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:29:09","slug":"ocr-confusion-damages-the-demosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"OCR Confusion Damages the DeMosses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize that OCR searches are problematic, but this seems a little bit more problematic than usual.<\/p>\n

I searched for “Demoss” in the “Maryland Archives, 1658-1783<\/a>” with the hopes of finding something on my family from that state.<\/p>\n

The search brought up 1484 hits as shown in the image below. Many of these were for non-Demoss names or words. Particularly “dammages” and “damages.” There were lots of damages in my results.<\/p>\n

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\"no-dammages-but-demosses\"<\/a>
\nSo I decided to flip it around and search for damages. I wasn’t certain how many hits I would get, but I expected a number reasonably similar to 1484–different but reasonably close.<\/p>\n

There were no results for dammages as last name. I also obtained no results when I searched for that word as a keyword as well. No damages and no results.<\/p>\n

\"no-dammages\"<\/a>
\nIt’s been a while since I’ve had any advanced coursework in number theory or algebra, but I’m pretty certain that 0 is not the same as 1484. In algebra, 0 is particularly interesting and has a variety of special properties.<\/p>\n

Here 0 is just frustrating.<\/p>\n

And confusing.<\/p>\n

There are 0 results for “dammages” as a last name and 0 results for “dammages” as a keyword.<\/p>\n

There are 0 results for “damage” as a last name and 367 results for “damage” as a keyword.<\/p>\n

All search results were obtained between 11:00 am and 11:25 am central time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize that OCR searches are problematic, but this seems a little bit more problematic than usual. I searched for “Demoss” in the “Maryland Archives, 1658-1783” with the hopes of finding something on my family from that state. The search brought up 1484 hits as shown in the image below. Many of these were for […]<\/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":[17],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}