{"id":829,"date":"2017-06-11T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2017-06-11T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:04:35","slug":"the-transcription-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"The Transcription Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/quill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-830\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/dbnews.americanancestors.org\/transcription-challenge\/\">Transcription Challenge<\/a> is a unique way to volunteer.  As AmericanAncestors.org transcribes the Massachusetts:  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1798-1900, they have discovered some very difficult words to transcribe.   Knowing the old saying \u201cMany hands make light work\u201d and \u201cTwo heads are better than one\u201d are true, weekly during the summer, a new transcription challenge will be posted with the undecipherable area circled in red.  So far, 4 challenges are available.  All you need to do is take a look and make a comment of what you think is written for the appropriate number of the problem\u2019s name.   This is a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon!  Give it a try\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transcription Challenge is a unique way to volunteer. As AmericanAncestors.org transcribes the Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1798-1900, they have discovered some very difficult words to transcribe. Knowing the old saying \u201cMany hands make light work\u201d and \u201cTwo heads are better than one\u201d are true, weekly during the summer, a new transcription &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Transcription Challenge&#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":[493,494],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteer-opportunities","tag-american-ancestor","tag-transcription-challenge-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}