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by sseagull 1537 days ago
I think Ancestry does. I believe there is a lot of innovation happening there, but that is just a feeling.

However, it can be a tough problem. Census takers' handwriting can be pretty bad.

(I often say doing genealogy will cure people's love of cursive. Terrible, quickly-written printing is usually still fairly legible, while cursive can be a series of hopeless squiggles)