The penultimate 52 Ancestors prompt is 'Good Deeds', and has me thinking about how helpful the wider genealogical community can be.
Earlier this week I blogged about the 15th birthday of the Trove website. Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of partner organisations across Australia that contribute collections and digital content.
Everything you would find on a visit to a library or museum can be found in Trove. It brings together billions of pieces of information. Search for digital copies of newspapers, Government Gazettes, maps, magazines and newsletters. Or books, pictures, photographs, archived websites, music and interviews. Even information about famous Australians, including copies of letters, diaries and personal archives. And it is all available free.
Text correcting has been a part of Trove since its first days, and in Trove’s 15-year history, Voluntrove text correctors has corrected over 513 million lines of text – and this number increases every single day.
There are a number of other websites out there that help genealogists research their family histories, not to mention the huge number of archives, societies and groups around the world. There are transcribers and volunteers and researchers who give their time and expertise to help others.
Countless good deeds.
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