Assignments

Transcriptions

Due: Tuesday, February 19

For this assignment, we’re working in partnership with the Albany County Hall of Records and the new Albany Firefighter’s Museum. Our work for this assignment does an important service for the AFM and for ACHOR by doing the first necessary step of preparing their records for genealogists and future researchers to search and use. This assignment also gives us an up close and personal look at the painful process of data creation and the many questions of historical interpretation it opens up.

Select your assigned page from the list at right here (under “Transcribe This Item”). Transcribe each word as it appears, even if it seems to be misspelled or an abbreviation. To represent the column breaks, insert a # sign at the column break. If a column is blank, insert a “-“

For example:

Names # When Appointed # When Resigned # When Transferred # When Expelled # In Whose Place Appointed # Remarks

Archibald Young # Oct 1, 1855 # Sept 1, 1867 # – # – # – # R Corpus Company # –

If you run into trouble interpreting the handwriting, post a screenshot and ask for help in the Slack!

See the example transcription here.