The Unofficial Footnote Blog

What’s in a name? Well, if you use a term to mean more than one thing, there is ambiguity in a name. So when is two titles actually eight titles? Well, sometimes a title is a title, and sometimes it’s five titles.

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Two quick lists for today.
The 10 titles which are 100% complete, containing less than 1000 images

Photos – WW II Japanese FREE
Civil War Soldiers – Union – UT
Ardelia Hall Collection: Wiesbaden Photographs FREE
Custer’s Court Martial FREE
Constitutional Convention Records FREE
Foreign Letters of the Continental Congress FREE
Photos – Coolidge FREE
Photos – Eisenhower FREE
Amistad – Federal court records FREE
Town [...]

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This is the unofficial Footnote Blog. There is also an official Footnote Blog. On 30-March, when Footnote rolled the 1930 Census, they also announced enhancements to the search function on the site. The announcement said, in part:
Search Updates
We’ve received some great feedback about searching Footnote and we’ve made some significant improvements based on your suggestions.  [...]

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A “Long Runway” is something that is needed if takeoff isn’t fast. It also is a phrase used at Footnote to refer to the practice of giving the customer as much information before making a purchasing decision. We wouldn’t want to rush a heavy plane into the air, or encourage the user to buy without knowing if the thing on offer is something that she wants.

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