{"id":1242,"date":"2018-09-20T20:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:12:22","slug":"1242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2018 Central Virginia Heritage Available Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1240\" src=\"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/34-3_Front-cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/34-3_Front-cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/34-3_Front-cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>In this issue:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Jean L. Cooper&#8217;s article,\u00a0<strong>Crowd-Sourcing With Zooniverse.org<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the most interesting websites I recently discovered is www.Zooniverse.org. Zooniverse is a site that offers the opportunity to crowd-source the work involved in<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transcribing collections of documents. Some of the projects are scientific in nature,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>studying climate, biology, or medicine. Others have to do with language, history, or the arts. Among the projects: Helping transcribe the military records of\u00a0<strong>African-American Civil War Soldiers<\/strong>,\u00a0and transcribing records in <strong>The American Soldier<\/strong>, to provide access to a one-of-a-kind collection of reflections on war and military service by American soldiers who served during the Second World War. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the rest of this article, and several\u00a0others, CVGA members should go to\u00a0<strong>\u201cMembers Only\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on the menu bar above, and choose<strong>\u00a0\u201cCentral Virginia Heritage \u2014 Current Issue.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(Note: You have to be logged in to this website in order to see \u201cMembers Only.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble logging in to the site to download your copy, please contact me at the webmaster link at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For those who are not members<\/strong>, we offer the opportunity to purchase a printed copy of each issue. The Fall 2018\u00a0issue\u00a0is\u00a0available from Amazon.com at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1723791210\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1723791210<\/a>\u00a0for $6.50. Click on the Amazon.com link above or search for \u201cCentral Virginia Heritage\u201d on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p>Contents of\u00a0the Fall 2018 issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fall Conference of the Virginia Genealogical Society and the Central Virginia Genealogical Association, to be held 5-6 Oct., 2018, in Charlottesville, VA;<\/li>\n<li>The Genealogical Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution;<\/li>\n<li>Preservation Grants for Presbyterian Churches;<\/li>\n<li>Obituary: Charles R. Moore;<\/li>\n<li>Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire;<\/li>\n<li>Census Instructions;<\/li>\n<li>Are You Missing Most of the Available Genealogy Information?;<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Bartley, Free Negro Registration, 1808;<\/li>\n<li>Three Allen Wills from Buckingham County;<\/li>\n<li>The Southall Family of Virginia;<\/li>\n<li>Crowd-Sourcing on Zooniverse.org;<\/li>\n<li>Fredericksburg National Cemetery;<\/li>\n<li>Rockingham County Cemetery Indexes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a little extra gift, the online edition contains an extra, one-page guide to\u00a0<strong>Basic Steps for African American Slave Research<\/strong>, courtesy of Dr. Shelley Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any articles you\u2019d like to share with CVGA members, please send an email to the editor,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:eleanordew@gmail.com\">eleanordew@gmail.com<\/a>. \u2014 The Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue:\u00a0\u00a0Jean L. Cooper&#8217;s article,\u00a0Crowd-Sourcing With Zooniverse.org: One of the most interesting websites I recently discovered is www.Zooniverse.org. Zooniverse is a site that offers the opportunity to crowd-source the work involved in transcribing collections of documents. 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