Entire book transcribed into Freespace page

Question

I hope this was OCRd. That's a lot of typing!

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sackville%2C_New_Brunswick

(G2G won't let me paste this link as a related WikiTree ID/URL, I guess because of the comma.)

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That book was an early Gutenberg item, part of the now defunct Chignecto Project.

.  It's available on the internet already but it was lost for a while when the Westmorland County Genweb went down.  Somebody decided they didn't want to lose it again.  It was transcribed before the days of OCR.  It was hand transcribed. 

Answer 1

According to the link it was a text based source as seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180926014311/http://www.geneofun.on.ca/cgw/archives/nb/sackvill.txt

As a side note, I find a page like this highly unnecessary on WikiTree when you can simply link out to the book itself (as shown above). There are also possible copyright issues, as the original work is still under protection and only the electronic edition is released to public domain (but they cannot waive the copyright of the actual book itself).

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Oooh, I've saved and linked pages with the WayBack Machine, but I haven't searched for one before. I thought the old file was lost, but now I agree that this is a waste of time since the original file is still accessible (and is easily copied and pasted, being a text file).

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searching on google for the name of the doc 'HISTORY OF SACKVILLE NEW BRUNSWICK' does not easily find a page where the PDF is available for free. I found one site that was charging for it, as well as multiple that were charging for the book.

Using the URL on the page shows that URL as invalid.  Steve, how did you find that link?

The space page was also created in Jun 2012.  It is not a recent addition.

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I'm interested too. If you copy the link and head to the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/

paste the link into the search box near the top, and click "browse history", it shows a timeline of when the page was saved. In this case, it was saved 34 times. If you go into the calendar, you can see highlighted days when it was saved and try to click through to see the snapshot of the page on the day it was saved. But I tried this on a bunch of the snapshots, and it keeps telling me it cannot retrieve the snapshot because of server error. The most recent snapshot it shows me is for 25 September 2018.

I see in the link Steve posted that it was for a snapshot made 26 September 2018, but I'm not seeing that in the Wayback Machine right now.

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Canadian Copyright law is a bit different from USA. The copyright expires 50 years after the author's death (1938) so would no longer be under copyright. This is for works published before 1998.