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The help pages Abigail Shelton and Lauren Algee: I was checking out How to review (always good to repeat the rules and conventions), and I read... " Can I review my own transcriptions?You cannot review transcriptions you sub... 
German translation tips Thank you, whoever you are, translating the German. Please read these tips; otherwise I will have to fix everything! 1. Keep your sentences as long as the ones on the page. i.e. follow their lines; when they b... How to deal with split words with hyphens Hey, folks, just a request to occasionally review the transcription directions! I know that I have forgotten things here and there, and I try to look to remind myself of what I'm supposed to be doing. The purp... Duplicate record Hi! Please delete this record. It is a copy of the next one on line, and it is wrongly transcribed. Thanks, Sharon https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/rough-rider-bull-moose-theodore-roosevelt/4-jan-1903-july-15-1904-n... Please get rid of one of these Hi! These 2 pages are identical (and each transcribed wrong, but NOT identically). Please dispose of one of them, and open the other so I can add the proper initials. https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/rough-rider... Mary Church Terrell and German Hey, folks! Any other Germanophiles out there? I'm really enjoying Mary's German entries. They're not earth-shattering, but it's wonderful to get a glimpse into her daily life abroad. Her German is quite good, althoug... Mary Church Terrell diaries are FINISHED!! Diaries and journals, 1888-1951 is FINISHED!! Some other German-o-phile has been in and finished reviewing the German! Hooray! SO can we get the transcriptions up on the site??? Sharon McKinley How to get to your records So, let's try asking this question again... V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC) Moderators, why is it so hard to go through my work to find these things? Or am I just going about it in the wrong way... Please re-open! I hit edit rather than accept... (Hey, Henry Rosenberg : 2 can play at this game! ;-) ) Please reopen this for me; I shoulda just accepted it! Thanks, Sharon McKinley How to see your work So, let's try asking this question again... Moderators, why is it so hard to go through my work to find these things? Or am I just going about it in the wrong way? Why aren't all the letters to Lincoln I've do... please re-open this page Here's an interesting MCT letter in German. https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/mary-church-terrell-advocate-for-african-americans-and-women/letters-between-friends-allies-and-others/mss425490066/mss425490066-44/ ... Please reopen this one! I'm trying to help mop up the Rosa Parks odds and ends (I really can't take on some of those long pages). So I did this little Lena Horne bio (they're kinda cool, actually!) https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/ros... Rosa, Rosa, Rosa! OK, so of course I gotta get in on Rosa. Questions: 1. She splits up single pages into parts. How should we transcribe these? This one is by someone else... https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/rosa-parks-in-her-own-word... Please re-open this page Someone review and accept this newspaper page, please! It's preventing 102 other pages from being posted! Sharon M. https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/civil-war-soldiers-disabled-but-not-disheartened/left... Translations This page is a transcription of a German letter, with a translation in it. I agree with Henry that we're not supposed to translate things, but it's been accepted. Should we reopen and delete the translation? It's not ... I've done it again! Hit edit instead of accept! Please someone go accept this for me! Thanks! Sharon https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/letters-to-lincoln/1860-elected-first-republican-president-and-south-carolina-secedes/ma… I hit edit by mistake OK, so I did it again....I'm too tired! Please someone go accept this sucker! https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/letters-to-lincoln/1862-civil-war-death-of-willie-lincoln-drafts-of-emancipation-proclam… T... I hit Edit by mistake Aack, I hit Edit instead of Accept. (it would be nice if one could undo such a mistake if no changes were made). There were a few tiny things that weren't worth changing. Could someone please go and accept this lonely... Clara Barton pages need re-reviewing I'm reviewing some beautifully-transcribed Clara Barton pages, in and around April 5, 1864 https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/clara-barton-angel-of-the-battlefield/diaries-and-journals-1862-1869/mss119730009/mss11... Question about words added by someone else to a document. OK, so I don't always know the right place to look for an answer. Perhaps I shouldn't always wanna try out the next new campaign....here I am reviewing in Eliz. Cady Stanton's speeches, and there's this speech...