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200,000 Church Books Online
For more than ten years, Archion has been growing continuously: digitized church books are imported and made available online for research. Now, a new milestone has been reached: 200,000 church books are now available online at Archion.
200,000 church books with over 30 million images is an impressive number. But there is more behind it: every available church book can reveal new traces of your…
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Text Recognition On ARCHION
As of now, ARCHION offers a new possibility to read and use church records for research even more conveniently: By means of AI-based text recognition, handwritten entries are transformed into easily readable text and made available in the viewer along with the original image. Thus, researchers interested in genealogy and history profit from faster and even easier access to valuable sources.
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Complete with Bremen: Church Records from all Federal States Available
Archion has extended its range: As of now, the church records from the State Archive Bremen are available online. Therefore, church book inventories from all 16 federal states are now present on Archion – one more step towards a central platform for source-based family research.
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