Re: Time Magazine website help needed re pro wrestler LEVY (1936) #germany
Dick Plotz <Dick@...>
I'm responding to the list because this illustrates a technique that
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is often useful. Elizabeth Levy's problems have nothing to do with her location in Israel. Time restricts access to its online archives to subscribers. A subscriber could look this up and send it. But then the request would have to be interpreted as a request for a lookup in a subscription-only archive, which would be a violation of JewishGen policy. Elizabeth wisely expressed her request as being addressed to people with access to actual back issues, which is not a problem; library research is a dying but still important art. Fortunately, neither misuse of someone else's subscription nor a trip to the library is necessary to find this article. The trick is to search for a distinctive string of words in the portion of the article that's available. The original article apparently contained the words "Leviathan Levy", which got mangled by OCR to "Levia than Levy". Googling "Levia than Levy" leads to the abbreviated Time article but also to a pro wrestling forum where what appears to be the entire article was copied: <http://forums.prowrestling.com/showthread.php?t=3D25978>. In general, don't give up too easily when you can't find a whole article. Identifying a distinctive string of words and searching for it may lead you to alternative sources. The trick is to find a string of words that wouldn't be likely to occur, or at least not very often, in other contexts. Dick Plotz, Manager of Mailing Lists JewishGen, Inc. Elizabeth Levy <levyliz@...> wrote:
Google helped me find a snip >from an article about my great uncle,
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