Giving thanks for Citizen Archivists
From NARA
If you’ve been reading our newsletter for a while or follow the National Archives on social media, you might have heard of our largest Citizen Archivist mission — the pension applications of Revolutionary War veterans. This mission is a special partnership with the National Park Service. We hope that unlocking these pensions will bring first hand accounts of the American Revolution to park visitors. We are grateful for all the work our Citizen Archivists have done in advancing this mission.
A couple of weeks ago, we added a new mission for Native American patriots who applied for pensions from the federal government. These men were identified as Native Americans by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Many of the files name the tribal affiliation of the veteran.
If you’d like to be Citizen Archivist and join us in transcribing and tagging records you can find more information here. And if reading cursive isn’t your superpower, don’t worry! You can tag already transcribed pensions from the American Revolution, or participate in one of our other missions featuring typed records.
Are you interested in a challenge? We’re putting particularly difficult to decipher pension records in our Transcriber Task Force mission. These records often have incomplete pages or pages where the original transcriber couldn’t make out many of the words. Check them out, review each page by page, and see if you can make them readable.
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