If you like using newspapers for your #genealogy, #familyhistory research, you'll love this update. This month, we started our Tennessee Genealogy Indexing project to pull names from historical newspapers. And our volunteers have been doing an amazing job...
In just under 3 weeks, they've indexed about 3,000 names from historical newspapers around the state. We are using @_FromThePage_ as our crowdsourcing platform and it's been going so well!
Over in the @tngenweb Facebook group, I shared an example of why this project is so important. The example was an 1850 obit for Mrs. Martha Pettitt that was published in the Athens Post and found no online researchers that had her obit as a source... 
82 public trees on @Ancestry and no one had it; her @FamilySearch Family Tree profile doesn't have it (will add it soon); paper is digitized and online, but OCR has her last name as "Pk.ttitt"....
It could potentially take a lot of work to look for her obit by hand, but through our crowdsourced, volunteer project, we are helping to make this info more accessible and discoverable!
I had the pleasure of sharing the vision for this project at @RootsTechConf last year, to great reception! Partnering with my pal Billie, State Coordinator of @tngenweb brought synergy of our ideas and we were able to get it going this month!
If you are interested in joining to help with the indexing, join our group at facebook.com/groups/1703655… and attend an orientation session!
And.. this is just one example of projects that exist for genealogy goodwill that take the combined effort and volunteership from others. I am pleased to be able to share some of our lessons learned again at @RootsTechConf this year....
Come attend the LIVE panel session at @RootsTech, "Bring Your Community Family History Project to Life"! There are many records that still need to be brought to life! Here from multiple presenters as we share ways that you can get involved in community genealogy projects.
No specific date & time yet, but stay tuned. The panel includes Heather Jacobs, @joepricebyu, Rachel Trotter, @KeepMovingTara, @mckellkeeney , @MilesMeyer9 , Mary Anderson, & Alisha Chang. We've got much to share and are looking forward to your questions!
RootsTech promises to be another fantastic experience this year! Are you registered? We want to see you there familysearch.org/rootstech! #genealogy #familyhistory
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