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Crowdsourcing Transcription and Indexing Projects to Work on While Sheltering in Place

Posted on March 27, 2020 by SCblogger

If you need a break from Netflix, reading, crafting, disinfecting, and sterilizing during the COVID-19 quarantine, there are many volunteer indexing and transcription opportunities available online. Indexing and transcribing can be a rewarding pastime for genealogists and local historians. If … Continue reading →

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An Exciting Find: Iowa death records, 1921 – 1940

Posted on March 10, 2017 by SCblogger

One of the roadblocks we frequently run into while helping patrons with genealogy and local history research is a gap in Scott County death records from 1921 – 1940. During that time, death records were maintained by the State of Iowa and … Continue reading →

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