veteran-finderMade to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the World War 1 armistice, Vet Finder uses handwriting recognition software to find your ancestors who served in World War 1.

Vet Finder uses machine learning and neural networks to read the census entry for each person in the 1930 U.S. Census and automatically recognize whether or not they are a veteran of World War I. All of the data powering Vet Finder was indexed automatically.

This program was created by the BYU Family History Technology Lab.

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