Search improvements
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In Trove the Australian newspaper website, identified people are allowed to edit the text, and correct the inevitable errors of OCR.
Allowing editing has improved the text massively to the benefit of all
6 votesClosed - Completed · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedYou can do this from within the viewer: just choose the “edit” button from the viewer page
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I'd like to be able to avoid picking up sports results.
I'm searching for family history, so I search for name and place. I get the cricket and football results. Yes they may be relatives but as they only list surnames there not very useful.
2 votesClosed - Completed · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedWe would recommend using the advanced search and adding Football and cricket to the excluded search terms – this should help.
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