3 articles in Case Studies
About 30% of the Epic of Gilgamesh is still missing, scattered across clay fragments in museums worldwide. How Munich's Fragmentarium matched over 1,500 fragments in six years, including 20 new pieces of Gilgamesh, and why searchable text was the real breakthrough.
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Most record images online were never indexed, so finding an ancestor meant paging through films for hours. FamilySearch Full-Text Search uses AI to make every word searchable. How it works, how accurate it is, and a research workflow that respects its limits.
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When the 1950 US Census opened in April 2022, its name index had been built by AI reading the handwriting of 140,000 census takers. The National Archives warned it wouldn't be perfect and asked the public to help fix it. What worked, what didn't, and what it teaches about handwriting AI.
