MyHeritage has just released a collection of 731 million records extracted from historical French newspapers, thanks to their in-house AI technology.
Called France, Names & Stories in Newspapers collection, this is MyHeritage’s first “Names & Stories” collection in a language other than English. The source of these newspapers appears to be is France’s national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The records delve beyond names and dates. They capture relationships, occupations, addresses, and more, all linked to original newspaper pages.
The full announcement can be found on the MyHeritage Blog.
Additional languages will be added soon.
In 2024, MyHeritage developed specialized AI technology to extract structured records from newspaper pages published on OldNews.com. MyHeritage started publishing these collections, initially for English newspapers only, in December 2024, and they included newspapers from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
If you have a family tree on MyHeritage, you will soon begin receiving automatic Record Matches to articles in this collection that mention people in your tree. This will help you discover articles about your relatives without needing to search manually.
