[Genealib] Hispanic genealogy

[Kathy]

Ernie Thode wrote:
> I would also love to see historic German-American newspapers
> digitized.  One problem - I'm not sure it is insurmountable but it is
> a major problem - is getting any OCR software to recognize the German
> characters in the Fraktur (old German) typeface that the old German
> newspapers used.

NewspaperArchive.com has digitized quite a number of German-American 
newspapers from Wisconsin. The OCR indexing is pretty abysmal, though.

Kathy