Transcription Center | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/transcription-center/RSS feed for Transcription CenterenThu, 06 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Familieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-confederate-forces-captured-their-children-these-black-mothers-fought-to-reunite-their-families-180985994/During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved onesThu, 06 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-confederate-forces-captured-their-children-these-black-mothers-fought-to-reunite-their-families-180985994/Newly Digitized Freedmen's Bureau Records Help Black Americans Trace Their Ancestryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/Genealogists, historians and researchers can now peruse more than 3.5 million documents from the Reconstruction-era agencyThu, 26 Aug 2021 14:04:37 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/How the Public Helped Historians Better Understand What Happened at Tulsahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-citizen-historians-transcribed-key-papers-tulsa-race-massacre-180977765/A century after the massacre of a prosperous Black community, Smithsonian volunteers transcribed nearly 500 pages of vital records in less than 24 hoursWed, 19 May 2021 20:03:47 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-citizen-historians-transcribed-key-papers-tulsa-race-massacre-180977765/Help Transcribe Field Notes Penned by S. Ann Dunham, a Pioneering Anthropologist and Barack Obama's Motherhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/help-transcribe-field-notes-penned-ann-dunham-pioneering-anthropologist-barack-obama-mother-180975310/Newly digitized, Dunham’s papers reflect her work as a scholar and as a scientist and as a woman doing anthropology in her own right Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:51:59 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/help-transcribe-field-notes-penned-ann-dunham-pioneering-anthropologist-barack-obama-mother-180975310/How to Virtually Explore the Smithsonian From Your Living Roomhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-virtually-explore-smithsonian-your-living-room-180974436/Tour a gallery of presidential portraits, print a 3-D model of a fossil or volunteer to transcribe historical documentsWed, 18 Mar 2020 13:24:05 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-virtually-explore-smithsonian-your-living-room-180974436/Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday Invites Remembrance and Reflectionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/frederick-douglass-200th-birthday-invites-remembrance-and-reflection-180968100/This Douglass Day, celebrate an icon’s bicentennial while helping to transcribe the nation’s black historyThu, 08 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/frederick-douglass-200th-birthday-invites-remembrance-and-reflection-180968100/How Many Volunteers Does It Take to Transcribe Phyllis Diller's 53,000 Jokes?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-many-volunteers-does-take-transcribe-phyllis-dillers-jokes-180962384/Playing around in this massive joke file is like a crash course in brash humorMon, 06 Mar 2017 17:41:23 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-many-volunteers-does-take-transcribe-phyllis-dillers-jokes-180962384/The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-wants-you-help-transcribe-its-collections-180952333/A massive digitization and transcription project calls for volunteers at the Smithsonian Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:51:45 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-wants-you-help-transcribe-its-collections-180952333/