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Community Transcription – Fifty-Six Months

December was the fifty-sixth month since we opened the War Department archives to community transcription, and we continue to receive regular requests for transcriber accounts. Here is a snapshot of transcription activity for the month:

As of December 31, we had 2,453 transcribers; we created twenty-two new accounts in December. These new transcribers included students at various levels, members of the Creek nation, as well as a self-described “History lover” and a “history bug”.  Our transcribers’ interests continue to be as varied as their backgrounds. One new transcriber is researching a historic site near their home, another is interested in the lives of the lesser-known officers and soldiers in the frontiers and borderlands of the early United States, and a third works at one of the historic sites which features prominently in our documentary collection.

Our community of transcribers have added 358 transcribed pages to War Department documents, with the total number of saves being 16,381. Overall, we have had 295,859 page views.

As we continue to move forward with the project, individuals may still register for a transcription account.