Okay, I wasn’t featured, but one of my projects was! I’ve just written a blog post for the TNGenWeb project describing how one of our Special Projects was included in a presentation at the National Newspaper Digitization Program’s annual meeting. The NNDP is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and this past week, the Project Coordinator for the Tennessee digitization group, Louisa Trott Moore, shared information on how the digitized historical papers are used for genealogy & family history research, including our Historical News Portal site as an example.
The TNGenWeb Historical News Portal is a site I developed and now coordinate on behalf of TNGenWeb in our ongoing quest to provide free resources for genealogy & family history. With volunteer help, we transcribe and index articles from old newspaper issues to make the information within them more accessible and easier to find. The site is definitely a work-in-progress, but we all enjoy working on it. The NEH Chairman was even present and heard about our work – I think that is just cool. 🙂
This was great exposure for the TNGenWeb project, so I greatly thank Louisa for including us!
Check out the blog post to learn more!
Congratulations, Taneya. It’s a really clean-looking site, with a comprehensive menu. Users can approach the resources from so many directions, and subscribe! Nicely organized for all levels of research.
Thanks Deborah!
Congratulations, Taneya! About time you received some recognition for your hard work!
Thanks Elizabeth! But it’s not just my work. it’s a great testament to all of our volunteers 🙂