{"id":780,"date":"2017-05-17T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T10:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umdmuseumcert.wordpress.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2017-09-09T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T16:58:32","slug":"nmaahc-launches-freedmens-new-citizen-history-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/nmaahc-launches-freedmens-new-citizen-history-project\/","title":{"rendered":"NMAAHC Launches Freedmen\u2019s New Citizen History Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The National Museum of African American History and Culture has announced the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau Transcription Project. Using the Smithsonian Transcription Center, this crowdsourcing initiative aims to transcribe images of the Bureau\u2019s nearly two million records. Once transcribed, the records are keyword searchable and available to anyone interested in family history and the Reconstruction Era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaslh.site-ym.com\/link.asp?e=alexander_schou@msn.com&amp;job=2934717&amp;ymlink=122684071&amp;finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fow%2Ely%2FHNJ330bJD2R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/HNJ330bJD2R<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Museum of African American History and Culture has announced the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau Transcription Project. Using the Smithsonian Transcription Center, this crowdsourcing initiative aims to transcribe images of the Bureau\u2019s nearly two million records. Once transcribed, the records are keyword searchable and available to anyone interested in family history and the Reconstruction Era. http:\/\/ow.ly\/HNJ330bJD2R<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}