I am working on transcribing and naming a file from our family archive that I had labeled "Calling Cards Etc." I hadn't expected this file to very very interesting. Useful, yes, as I knew the cards would clearly tell me how some family names were spelled, but I didn't expect much of real interest. But mixed in with the...
This morning I was reading a Quora post (Quora is a guilty pleasure) about how to reapond to unwanted advice ro new parents. One conversation veered into stories about insisting on breastfeeding in the hospital. I contributed this response... but after rereading it I realized this is the first time I remembered this interaction in a long, long...
I wrote about Dennison Woodcock and his poetry book last month. I have since discovered that there was no easy technical way to transcribe the text. The format and the old typeface is more than basic OCR (optical character recognistion) could handle.
Dennison Woodcock was an important figure in some of my grandmother's stories. I remember the chair she explained was from the "butter bowl factory." I also remember it being a a very comfortable, small work or desk chair. My mom told me to look for the little, yellow book of his. When I found it there were a couple small...
I have just finished transcribing and editing my Great-Grandmother's autobiography. It is written in pencil, with lovely script penmanship in two little (3X5 1/2") notebooklets. I have tried to edit lightly, adding punctuation and updated spellings. There were also places where I have had to figure out a particular word, using a magnifying glass...