Genealogy Soup » the dead sea scrolls http://genealogysoup.com/blog Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:35:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Advances in High-Tech Scanning to Help the Genealogical World http://genealogysoup.com/blog/advances-in-high-tech-scanning-to-help-the-genealogical-world/ http://genealogysoup.com/blog/advances-in-high-tech-scanning-to-help-the-genealogical-world/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:05:47 +0000 C. Hogan http://genealogysoup.com/blog/?p=65 As genealogists it is important to always be thinking “outside the box” as it relates to our love, hobby and obsession.

The Jerusalem AP announced this past week that with the help of new very advanced scanning they will be able to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls to the public in a way never though of before.

What makes this incredibly exciting is how the advancement of this technology will bring so many old records to life that many of us use in our research.  While the scrolls themselves may or may not hold any genealogical information,  the advancement of the digitization techniques that many services offer on the internet for old documents will benefit greatly and so will we in our research in the future.

To read the full article go to: CNN Dead Sea Scrolls

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