Our Family Genealogy Pages

I have done research at bibrum2.bang.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie which has the Tanguay Dictionary. I can translate and print the superstructure of the site in English, but I cannot translate the supplemental pages, such as, page xix, Survey of the etymology and history of names. Do you know of a site or source where I can access this information in English?

Thanks, Bill Robinson

I'm not aware of any English translation that is available. I purchased the Tanguay collection on CD Rom and have been relying on my college French classes (which I took many, many years ago) to muddle my way through. There are plenty of free sources on the web that will translate from French to English, but you must somehow get the French text. I realize that the site you referred to (http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/) simply provides images of the pages, which cannot be translated.

I suppose you could download each PDF page from the site, use OCR software to create text versions of the image, and then use one of the many translators available to translate the French to English. I attempted this method on the first page of the pages you referenced. The quality of the image was such that my OCR program could only recognize about 70-80% of the words. I didn't have the patience to go through the text file and manually correct what the program got wrong.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Maybe someone else on the forum could chime in with an idea.

Roger

Have you tried translate.google.com/ ? I was going to try it myself and then let you know if it worked, however it says that is not a valid site and wants me to go to www.banq.qc.ca/accueil/ instead.

Never mind - I couldn't get the page to load using Google Chrome, but it did when I used Internet Explorer. I see now Google.Translate would be no use there. Sorry I couldn't help.

Google translate will not work out for this. The Tanguay pages are photos (scanned documents) and Google Translate will only work on actual text.

You may also want to try the link I gave in my first post in this topic: http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/