Perhaps I am being cynical but is this a way for Ancestry to train its members to procure documents for it ... Documents that Ancestry may not otherwise have available on its platform ?
They introduced this transcription service for personal letters and loose papers in May 2025. The new effort here is handwritten records like probate records and deeds. It will be interesting to see if Ancesrty will do a better job than FamilySearch does.
Having compared the Ancestry tool to other AI tools for handwritten document transcription I would say my results with Ancestry's tool has been very disappointing. The accuracy of the documents I have tried is far less than what I have seen from other tools.
Perhaps I am being cynical but is this a way for Ancestry to train its members to procure documents for it ... Documents that Ancestry may not otherwise have available on its platform ?
They introduced this transcription service for personal letters and loose papers in May 2025. The new effort here is handwritten records like probate records and deeds. It will be interesting to see if Ancesrty will do a better job than FamilySearch does.
Having compared the Ancestry tool to other AI tools for handwritten document transcription I would say my results with Ancestry's tool has been very disappointing. The accuracy of the documents I have tried is far less than what I have seen from other tools.