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Tom Collins
I’m feeling a bit drunk from Tom Collins ~ and not in a good way. Seemed like a simple task: make an individual history page for Thomas Collins (?-1722). Yes . . . except there are roughly a jillion Collins people running around Somerset County in the middle of the eighteenth century, and it’s no…
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An Object Lesson
My plan today was to add an ‘individual history’ page for Thomas Collins (?-1722) because yesterday I added an image of his administration account to one of my pages and I figured why not start there? But instead this has turned into a little lesson about the pitfalls of relying on indexes. I’ll cut out…
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Hold On To Your Hats
Well. I just listened in on an OIEAHC Coffeehouse about the Slave Societies Digital Archive [check it out here] and good golly, am I excited about the possibilities for my data. It’s true, I had never heard of Transkribus (because although I don’t really live in a cave or under a rock, I often behave…