The new index features over 900 million names
The Newspaper Name Index, USA and Canada constitutes an index of 982 million names mentioned in MyHeritage’s existing U.S. and Canadian newspaper collections. Smart machine learning algorithm has been used to extract essential details from the free text of the newspapers – not only the first and last names of individuals mentioned, but also related details that may appear in the text, such as the name of a spouse or a place of residence. This index covers half of MyHeritage’s newspaper collection, with the other half of the name index due to be published soon, adding almost one billion extra records.