Archive for 'Our Archives Wiki'
Throughout this holiday season, we encourage you to participate in the exciting activities featured on the Citizen Archivist Dashboard, which is available starting today. Check it out and try tagging, transcription, editing articles, uploading digital scans, and participating in contests all related to the records of the National Archives. We hope that you’ll share any suggestions [...]
Posted by Jessie on December 23, 2011, under Contests, DC-area Researchers, Digitization, Open Government, Our Archives Wiki, Social Media (Web 2.0), Tag It Tuesday, Wikipedian in Residence.
Tags: Ansel Adams, challenge.gov, citizen archivist, Citizen Archivist Dashboard, Citizen Archivist Research Flickr Group, contests, crowdsourcing, Document Your Environment, DOCUMERICA, Flickr, History Happens Here, How can I help?, I Found It in the Archives, microvolunteering, Online Public Access, open government, Our Archives Wiki, participation, public participation, tagging, Today's Document, transcription, Transcription Pilot, volunteer, Wikipedia, WikiProject NARA, WikiSource Comments: 2
In the NARA Coast-to Coast post last week, we discussed the general process for naturalization. This week we will focus on some of the exceptions to the normal process for minors, women, and aliens serving in the U.S. military. Naturalization and Minors (Children) Minor children were granted derivative citizenship when their father, or after 1922 [...]
Posted by Rebecca on September 20, 2010, under Genealogy / Family History, NARA Coast to Coast, Our Archives Wiki, Research.
Tags: ARC, Genealogy / Family History, naturalization, women Comments: 3
The National Archives recently created a new “Inside the Vaults” video about our citizen archivist initiative. The video features Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero discussing the contributions of the public to the National Archives as well as two citizen archivists, researcher Jonathan Webb Deiss and educational cartoonist Jon White, discussing their work [...]
Posted by Rebecca on September 10, 2010, under DC-area Researchers, Miscellaneous, Online Research, Open Government, Our Archives Wiki, Research, Social Media (Web 2.0).
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We are excited to announce that the Our Archives wiki is now live at http://www.ourarchives.wikispaces.net Have you made a great find in NARA’s records? Or do you have a story to tell related to our records? Come share it on the Our Archives wiki! Our Archives is an online space for researchers, educators, genealogists, and [...]
Posted by Rebecca on July 8, 2010, under DC-area Researchers, Miscellaneous, Online Research, Open Government, Our Archives Wiki, Research, Social Media (Web 2.0).
Tags: wiki Comments: 4
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