Blog Post “Don’t Be a Dope”: Will Eisner’s World War II Posters
“Don’t Be a Dope”: Will Eisner’s World War II PostersThe Still Picture Branch at the National Archives safeguards many series of posters used during World War II by the United States Government. The messages range from the promotion of Victory Gardens and the war effort...
Milestone DocumentsCurious about the most viewed and sought out documents in the holdings of the National Archives? Explore the Milestone Documents website! This newly redesigned website features digitized primary source documents that ...
Problems with transcribing 1950 CensusWhile transcribing on NARA when on Line #19 and I submitted. The next line should have been #20 but the line changed numbers to line 24 and now I'm here, what happened? Should I continue? I haven't seen this before. ...
Poll What kinds of records do you like to transcribe?
What kinds of records do you like to transcribe?Have you visited our Citizen Archivist Dashboard lately? Every week, we post new groups of records and ask our citizen archivists to help tag and transcribe them to make them more searchable. We'd love to hear what ki...
How to make corrections to 1950 censusI was researching my relatives the 1950 census and found multiple misspelling errors. Can you please let me know how to make these corrections? Thanks!
Transcribing the 1950 CensusTranscribing the 1950 Census The National Archives launched the 1950 Census website on April 1, 2022. We hope you’ve had a chance to search the 1950 Census and learn more about your family history and life in ...
Thread Do we transcribe downloadable videos or only tag the record?
Do we transcribe downloadable videos or only tag the record?Do we transcribe item records that have downloadable videos? If yes, then how? Would the transcription be of the dialogue/audio in the video record or image descriptions? Is this a valuable contribution to the record ...
No email for 1950 census verification codeI was able to follow instructions. But, I was asked to receive a verification code after entering my email address. I never received an email. Ed Strickland
Thread Why is it so difficult to sign in/register?
Why is it so difficult to sign in/register?Why is it so difficult to sign in/register and find where to transcribe? I've registered, confirmed email address, signed in and it tells me info invalid. There is no place to find pages to transcribe. I tried forgot ...
Transcription problems with 1950 CensusI click finished or accept, can't remember what it says, but just as I clicked I noticed that the line number had gotten changed, is there a way to go back and see what you have transcribed and correct something that ...
The 1950 Census is here!The 1950 Census is here! After 72 years of confidentiality, the 1950 Census is here! The 1950 census is now available for everyone to view on a free, dedicated website from the National Archives: 1950census.archiv...
Snaps to the ScannersJust wanted to give a shout-out to the folks who scanned these documents. I filled in as a scanner once, long ago, taking photos of medical records for Kaiser, and it was easy to move a page under the camera and...
Thread I'm sending revisions for the 1950 Index with an example PA 51-713B
I'm sending revisions for the 1950 Index with an example PA 51-713BOur group at the stevemorse.org website spent a number of years hand digitizing, putting them online in 2013, and then transcribing the ED definitions. About 30 or so volunteers helped with that project, and the...
