So, this had to be paused a bit. The last month was brutal, work wise. I'm planning on getting back into transcribing this week and hope to knock some pages off the list. As always, if someone wants to help, go to the link in the first post and create a user, then PM me on here so I can add permissions so you can transcribe.
I also want to get a help page written up, so we can all follow the same procedures, and it will also have some helpful tips. For example, when you're making a first pass at a page, don't be concerned about words you can't read. Spend a couple seconds and then just put ?? in the transcription and move on. Further down the page, or on another page, may be the same word or abbreviation written neater and it'll click and you can go back and fix the ??s. Get 90% of the page done first, then worry about the pieces that were hard to read after. It'll contribute to you remaining sane.
I also have 3-4 old 5 year diaries that I purchased at a antique mall. All are from the same family. There's nothing occult about them, but they are hand written and I may take pictures and stick those on the FromThePage site in a separate section. Mostly boring farming related stuff, but every once in awhile it looks like they had some excitement in their lives.
Also thinking some of the old, weird tracts I have that are not handwritten, but may not have any digital versions out there because they're so obscure. Those are occult related.
I just need to take a lot of pictures to get them on the site.
