{"id":349,"date":"2015-08-31T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-08-31T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T11:13:40","slug":"an-important-indexing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"An Important Indexing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Have you heard of &#8216;The Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau Project&#8217;?<\/span> The Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau was established after the Civil War to help enslaved people transition into free citizens.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;\">FamilySearch International, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the California African American Museum, has launched this initiative to index this wealth of information as quickly as possible. They are looking for as many volunteers as possible. You do not have to commit to any specific amount of time or names.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Go to <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverfreedmen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">discoverfreedmen.org<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> to view a video explaining the project and see how easy it is to register with FamilySearch to start indexing these important records.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of &#8216;The Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau Project&#8217;? The Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau was established after the Civil War to help enslaved people transition into free citizens. \u00a0 FamilySearch International, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, the Smithsonian National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}