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Yesterday I completed transcribing the burial records for Green-Wood Cemetery. By the end I’d managed to improve my time from four hours per page to two. Interesting entries included two children killed by gunshot […]

My facility with burial ledger transcription is improving. Today I did an entire page—57 entries. It doesn’t sound like much but a lot of time is eaten up with deciphering handwriting, and manipulating an o […]

I spent about 4 hours transcribing burial records today, completing the first of six pages in the process. 40 new records are in the spread sheet now. Some names and addresses required cross-checking with […]

I’ve been slowly transcribing the 347 records from Green-Wood’s 1863 burial ledger. So far, a 20-record session takes approximately 90 minutes—if I don’t get sucked down an archival rabbit hole. Common rabbit h […]