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Offline maddys52

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volunteers to transcribe letters and diaries
« on: Wednesday 14 February 24 02:08 GMT (UK) »
Read this on our ABC news this morning. For anyone with some spare time.  :D
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-14/australian-war-memorial-love-letters-project/103458880

the link to volunteer:
https://transcribe.awm.gov.au/

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Re: volunteers to transcribe letters and diaries
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 14 February 24 02:34 GMT (UK) »
A friend passed that link on to me.   

Are you going to volunteer, Maddy?   

Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: volunteers to transcribe letters and diaries
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 14 February 24 02:37 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Maddy for that.
I think I will give it a go.
Sue
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Re: volunteers to transcribe letters and diaries
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 14 February 24 03:05 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Maddy. I might look into it too.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: volunteers to transcribe letters and diaries
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 14 February 24 04:14 GMT (UK) »
Mmm..
Just joined and did my first page. Quite lovely. The script in it was not too challenging. How easy to get caught up in the lives of others!
Sue
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Re: volunteers to transcribe letters and diaries
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 14 February 24 08:47 GMT (UK) »
Yes, I signed up too. Agree, fascinating insight into a different aspect of history.

Having recently finished reading Pip Williams "The Dictionary of Lost Words", I was interested to read in one letter the soldier explaining a slang word he had picked up (don't want to spoil the book if you haven't read it).
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