Brian Hansen, senior vice president of emerging businesses at Ancestry, says that if you look back at newspapers published in 1759, Ancestry's AI bots could only find four obituaries from more than 3,000 digitized pages. But these death notices didn't become prevalent until much later.
on papyrus newspapers called Acta Diurna (Daily Events). The first obituaries were published in ancient Rome around 59 B.C.E. Ancestry is now using AI algorithms to extract biographical data from centuries of obituaries - birth and death dates, geographical locations, parents' names and next of kin - to automatically populate subscribers' family trees. But the familiar format of the obituary remains, even as death notices move online to websites like or heartfelt posts on social media.Īncestry, the genealogy website, recently upgraded its online obituary archives to include more than 262 million published obituaries dating back to the 1750s. As print newspaper circulation has declined sharply over the past 25 years, so have print obituaries.
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