Ancestry Blog: How we restored more than 16,500 water-damaged records from the 1851 C

[Family Tree Forum]

Authored by Jack Reese from AncestryIn 2005 we finished scanning the UK Census collection from the microfilm reels that were available at the time and discovered that the writing on many of the images was very faint and unreadable in many cases.* Certified genealogist and then-head of Ancestry’s Indexing department, noted that as many as… Read more

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