AGP - Transcription Project

Transcription Project

AGP is in the beginning of a massive project. You may or may not have heard of the Transcription Project. The Transcription Project is a two pronged endeavor by as many Volunteers that will help.

First: Transcribing from CD's that are donated by Volunteer Photographers to AGP. Pris Weathers of ArkansasTies.com has donated her whole collection of CD's of the Little Rock National Cemetery. Every gravestones has been photographed and put on to CD's in an orderly fashion. There are 22 disks in all. We have 15 people working on these disks at present. We would be happy to have several more. There are 26,000+ photos on the disks. They are all the same size, so easy to upload from the disk and all, but a few, same size and same format. Pris has other cemeteries on CD's that she is ready to donate as well. This is a call for Volunteers to transcribe from CD's to AGP. Robert Stroupe has taken the LRNC Disk and backed them up on disk and is mailing them out. We can use more help for LRNC. I will begin a list of Volunteers who are willing to transcribe and be a member of the Transcription Project/ Disk. There are other disks available to transcribe from other Volunteer Photographers. ( Volunteer - Subject: Transcribe CD)

Second: Transcribing from a website to AGP. We have contacted or had people contact us to transcribe their photos from a website, like Find a Grave and others. These photos cover about every county of the 75 counties of Arkansas. Annette Shaw is keeping a careful log of these Volunteer Photographers who have given permission to transcribe their photos from Find grave and other websites. Some of the Volunteer Photographers did not save their original photos and some just do not have the time to upload what they did save. There are several Volunteers who are already working on this project with great success. We need more CC’s to get more involved by transcribing for their Counties. This is a call for Volunteers to transcribe from an internet site to AGP. Annette will keep a list of Volunteers who are willing to be a member of the Transcription Project/Internet. She will also have list by counties of those you can transcribe. ( Volunteer - Subject: Transcribe Internet)

Thank you Robert Stroupe and Don Childers for the great work you are doing on reviewing and handling the many submissions to the Veteran database for LRNC. What a big job and you are handling it with great care for conformity and correctness. We all thank you. We will work to make your jobs as easy as possible by conformity and error free uploads.

Thank you all so much for your great interest and your willingness to help save a part of our beloved Arkansas's History. We will move forward together as long as we disagree in kindness and work together to reach common ground on disagreements. We move forward together as long as we treat each other with respect and dignity. We will move forward together as long as we remain open, inclusive and welcoming to all. NOW!! we are off to 200,000.