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This morning I had 15 minutes.\u00a0 I was researching an ancient possible ancestor \u2013 Tietze Von Rashke, born about 1450 in Germany (yes, I know \u2013 not relevant).\u00a0 Google Search only turned up one find:<\/p>\n
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I went there, and sure enough, there was a page of a book printed in 1845 that Google had scanned \u2013 in old German:<\/p>\n
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That sure looks like my name, but the search engine would only show that one page \u2013 and it looks like it goes on.\u00a0 And, of course, I can’t read it.<\/p>\n
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Enter the wonderful technology.\u00a0 Of course, it already helped me find this, but WOW.<\/p>\n
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On the left side, it said this was an eBook and it was free.\u00a0 I clicked on the red button and Google Play came up and I logged in and “bought” my free book.<\/p>\n
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Of course I clicked read.\u00a0 And I knew I needed page 72, so scrolled right to it.<\/p>\n
But it was in German \u2013 old German \u2013 and I don’t read it.\u00a0 The book information had said that this was a scanned book and was stored as a set of pictures, so you couldn’t scroll like a regular book.<\/p>\n
But \u2013 they had highlighted the name and found it, so I wondered.<\/p>\n
I attempted to “select the paragraph I wanted \u2013 and WOW \u2013 technology magic exists!\u00a0 Here’s what happened:<\/p>\n
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When I clicked on Translate, here’s what I got:<\/p>\n
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After working through the next couple of pages, I found confirmation \u2013 and new relatives \u2013 of four generations of descendants from Tietze Von Raschke as the book proceeded to describe how the land had been passed to the current \u2013 in 1845 \u2013 owners.<\/p>\n
Boy, I sure couldn’t have ever done anything like this in a morning 5 years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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