{"id":489,"date":"2016-11-30T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2016-11-30T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:55:00","slug":"transcribers-needed-how-you-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Transcribers Needed! How You Can Help."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an email from the National Archives regarding a need for volunteers to help transcribe and tag items in the archives catalog. \u00a0What an awesome opportunity to help digitize historical records! \u00a0With the holiday season approaching, this opportunity is a wonderful way to give back to the genealogy community by helping to make available some of the U.S.&#8217; national treasures! Not sure where to start? \u00a0I say, just follow your heart &#8211; check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/citizen-archivist\/transcribe\/missions.html\">Transcription Missions <\/a>and select whichever area interests you. \u00a0The directions are simple &#8211; just click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/citizen-archivist\/transcribe\">here<\/a> and the easy to follow instructions will get you on your way to doing a very good deed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an email from the National Archives regarding a need for volunteers to help transcribe and tag items in the archives catalog. \u00a0What an awesome opportunity to help digitize historical records! \u00a0With the holiday season approaching, this opportunity is a wonderful way to give back to the genealogy community by helping to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transcribers Needed! How You Can Help.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[347,315,380],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteer-opportunities","tag-national-archives","tag-transcription","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}