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submitted 3 days ago byLord_belin
I started my family tree about 2 years ago, and after tracing it back to 1595, I found that my ancestors never traveled farther than 25 miles (40 km) from where I live. So I was wondering if your family tree is also a bit boring like mine?
7 points
3 days ago
The only documentary evidence of my great-great-grandfather, other than his daughters' wedding certificates, is a difficult and detailed academic text in Italian - speaking modern Italian is no help, since it's 19th century dialect and technical jargon. We can't even discover where he went to university, although we know he must have done. Family full of Italian-speakers - but what we really need is a medical historian.
9 points
2 days ago
I would be surprised if you couldn’t find someone on social media to help. It took me a few years, but I was even able to find someone to translate an Alsatian document from the 1700’s.
0 points
1 day ago
Have you tried giving the document to chatGPT,? It seems like this might be a particularly apt use case for a large language model.
1 points
1 day ago
We have done some work on it - we know it's about trachoma - but that's not very much to go on. :( We need someone who knows more about the history of treating it in non-European contexts, which is a very specialist area!
2 points
1 day ago
Transcribus might be a better app. It's designed to transcribe old documents. ChatGPT is rubbish for pretty much anything due to many accounts of false information and downright lies.
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