The Unofficial Footnote Blog

Part 4 of 4
Annotation and Finding
When searching for data that has been OCR’d, you can often locate, once the page is in the viewer, with FIND. If the information has not been OCR’d or indexed, you may wish to make an annotation, so that you can find it more easily later.

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Part 3 of 4
Here’s what worked
When I worked at Footnote, I used to routinely pester Peter Drinkwater about the shortcomings of the browse experience. Peter was kind enough to listen to me, and he used to tell me that they weren’t likely to do anything with browse because Search enhancements were going to replace it.
I [...]

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Part 2 of 4
I had problems
I had searched the LA city directories for Francis Sharbrough, but I was pretty sure that half of the entries were not OCR’d properly, and would require a browse to find the page for the Sharbroughs. It was a good idea, even if it wasn’t very practical.

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Part 1 of 4
It’s not a secret. I’m a big fan of City Directories. Footnote has a lot of them. But it’s not always as easy to find what you’re looking for as one might wish. I’ve spent some time fooling with this, and I have some suggestions for you.
I have a very distant cousin [...]

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Sometimes the guys here at Footnote teach me tricks that save me time. Today, they showed me a good one, and suggested that I write about it here.
It’s no secret that BROWSE on Footnote can be problematic. One of the problems is “fan” – how many options you have to go through to find what [...]

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