NC Government & Heritage Library Needs You!
The NC Government & Heritage Library is conducting a crowd-sourcing pilot and could use your help. This week staff uploaded images into a Flickr set (find it here) and would like to know if you can log onto Flickr and contribute by transcribing them. At the time of this post, there were 164 documents in the set, though some have already been transcribed.
There are quite a range of documents there – family bible records, newspaper clippings, handwritten family trees, handwritten letters, church records, etc; a large variety.
letter from James Woods Babcock
Their first batch of 50 documents was transcribed in 49 days – how awesome is that? To transcribe, all you need to do is log into your Flickr account and leave your transcriptions as a comment. Won’t you contribute?
New NC Genealogy 2.0 Page
Do you subscribe to RSS feeds? Do you have a Twitter (or follow) account? If so, then you may be particularly interested in a newly developed page here in the NCGenWeb Project — our NC Genealogy 2.0 page.
The NC Genealogy 2.0 page serves as a central location for bloggers & Twitters who share information relevant to NC Genealogy. The list includes
- individual bloggers
- various NC genealogy societies
- several feeds NC libraries with genealogy/historical emphasis
- feeds you can find from several NCGenWeb county pages.
Be sure to add these to your favorite RSS feed reader so you can easily stay current with goings on across the state.
We will continue to keep the page updates, so if you know of a feed we’ve missed, please let us know by sending email to ncgenwebproject at gmail dot com.
250th Anniversary of Pitt County
This week, there are celebrations ongoing in Pitt County to celebrate the county’s 250th-year anniversary. As part of the festivities, the local paper, Greenville’s Daily Reflector, is featuring their new online collection of images from the newspaper — the Daily Reflector Image Collection.
This site is a spectacular resource for anyone with historical/ancestral roots to the county. It features more than 7,500 images from the paper’s photo negatives (of which there are more than 85,000). The Joyner Library at East Carolina University has for years now been building a strong digital library collection, but this just tops the cake in my book. You can download high-quality files of the image, share them via a variety of social websites, and add your own comments to the pictures if you know something about them. Some of the images here are also on Flickr and have received a great response there. The pictures cover events and people not only in Pitt county, but in surrounding counties as well.
To learn more about the project, see their About page, where you can view a SlideShare presentation about the project’s implementation. Kudos to the Joyner Library for another great resource!
Randolph County RSS Feed
The Randolph County, NCGenWeb site now has an RSS feed. Rodney has been posting “What’s New” items to the site for awhile now, yet the RSS Feed will enable his site updates to be delivered directly to you.
If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds, check out his post for a nice overview of the advantages. Thanks Rodney for this enhancement to the Randolph County site.
Rodney also has a Twitter account for Randolph County. These options make it easier than ever to keep up with the latest content.
