Voices from the Past: A Family Letter Transcription Project – Part Two

Do you have a letter collection or ancestor journal that you’d like to transcribe, but the task seems overwhelming? I previously shared my friend Karen’s experience with inheriting over sixty family letters from 1828 to 1921. She learned how to archive the letters and developed a great system for enlisting the help of other family members in transcribing them. Today, with her permission, I’m sharing the steps she took. How to Set up a Family Letter Transcription Project Preservation Karen and her sister first took the letters to the Special Collections Department at Brigham Young University. The staff instructed her on...