MyHeritage adds Book Matching and Australian newspapers database

Some updates from MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com):

We're excited to announce the release of a revolutionary new technology — Book Matching — perhaps our best technology yet. Book Matching automatically researches individuals found in family trees on MyHeritage in our vast collection of digitized historical books. Unique to MyHeritage, the innovative new technology uses semantic analysis to understand every sentence in every page in the digitized books, in order to find matches with very high accuracy. Book Matching has already produced over 80 million new matches for our users! Every match is a paragraph from a book specifically about the person in the family tree, providing direct access to that paragraph and the ability to browse through the rest of the book.

With Book Matching, you'll discover fascinating family information that you would not find otherwise. You may even discover new relatives and ancestors. Use this information to expand your family tree and add color to it.

Further details are available at http://blog.myheritage.com/2016/04/myheritage-launches-book-matching/

MyHeritage now also has a third party searchable index available for 11 million Australian based newspapers, as originally presented on TROVE - it can be accessed at https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10450/australian-newspapers.

Chris

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