Have a few minutes at your computer? Lunch hour? Waiting for a download to complete? Take a look at an image of an old newspaper or other clipping, type what it says into an email, and return your "transcription" to us.
You will be contributing to a project about the people and events in Undine, a late 19th Century Lake Charlevoix settlement. You'll help us with our year-long exhibit that opens in June of 2011, and the book Undine: A Settlement Remembered, that we expect to publish in 2012.
HERE IS HOW IT WORKS:
The material we need transcribed is here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/112913729604663927297/UndineTranscriptions?authkey=Gv1sRgCL_hsob7sNW67QE&feat=directlink
- Download an image to your computer or just view it - any of the images in the Picasa album above. Click on an image to enlarge it
- Type the contents of the image into an email (don't attach a file), and send it back to us at charlevoixchps@gmail.com
- Put the file name of the image, for example: Smith 2, in the subject line of the email [you'll see the filename is in the right sidebar in Picasa, after you click to enlarge the image]
- Below the transcribed material, type two things -- your name (if you want us to track your donated time) and how long it took you to do this.
- As soon as someone returns a transcription, we'll remove the image from the album.
- If you give us your name, we will email a monthly letter stating how many minutes you donated to CCHPS.
Thank you!!
