Transcribing Documents: There is More Than Meets the Eye!

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson was very informative. Thank you. \n\nLaBrenda had some amazing examples (as Geoff mentioned) and I have to say, her slides were spot on. Very good webinar.\n\nLaBrenda is superb!!\n\nLaBrenda organized her material well and provided great insights with her delivery.\n\nLaBrenda presented well and not only reinforced the good things I'm currently doing when transcribing but also alerted me to other steps I should be taking. This was an informative and worthwhile webinar.\n\nLaBrenda was easy to understand and kept everything so interesting! Lots of great tips and tricks. Thank you so much!\n\nLots og good information.\n\nMet my expectations. Thank you.\n\nMy 'trial' webinar through BCG, and I couldn't be happier or more impressed. Thank you. And thanks, Geoff, for the email reminders.\n\nNicely done, with good examples.\n\nobviously an exceptionally knowledgeable presenter! appreciated the time taken to explain everything. transcribing is NOT simplistic and should be completed with great caution.\n\nOutstanding webinar and presenter. \n\nPresenter was very through in her research and it showed in the presentation. I have two others of hers I plan to watch in the near future.\n\nReally enjoyed seeing examples of archaic handwriting and tips on how to handle the transcription of such. Great webinar!\n\nReally enjoyed the visuals\n\nReally enjoyed the webinar. Now I understand what I was trying to read and why I couldn't make out the words. Knowing about context and how writing developed helps to make sense of what I was seeing. Thank you!\n\nSeeing the original document and how words that are hard to read can be determined by looking at other known words is so valuable. I transcribe Revolutionary War records for DAR and use this technique. Also the abbreviated words, especially names is important to to be aware of. I will be buying Sperry's book, and am looking forward to reading it. \n\nShe provided some good ins & tips, thanks! Great topic! \n\nShe provided very good samples for us to analyze. Her examples pointed out the need for doing the work well.\n\nShe speaks well. I appreciated the examples of poor writing and how she figured out what the letters were.\n\nSUPER!!!! Great speaker. Easy to understand what she was trying to explain. Great examples for transcribing documents. \n\nterrific examples!\n\nThank you for all the good info!\n\nThank you for this webinar. I will need to purchase a couple of books.\n\nThank you, a great webinar. It is a true challenge to read other peoples writing at any time in history. This webinar gave us a "heads up" on ow to interpret it.\n\nThanks LeBrenda\n\nThere were good examples.\n\nThis was a valuable and well illustrated review of important points that might go forgotten. I’m so glad I attended.\n\nThis was an excellent webinar. The examples were wonderful and illustrative of the issues I have come across and then some. Will find this useful in future!\n\nThis was one of the best webinars where I learned a lot...thank you. I will look for other webinars or presentations that LeBrenda does.\n\nVery clear commentary - most enjoyable.\n\nVery clear presentation w/good examples\n\nVery detailed and specific information. Very helpful and speaker was very clear in explaining the information. \n\nVery educational.\n\nVery enlightening. A good experience.\n\nVery good examples in the presentation. Also, very good Q&A information as well!\n\nVery good information. We will be using this information for sure. Thanks for a nice way to spend the evening.\n\nVery good lecture, her examples were superb!\n\nvery good webinar\n\nVery good, well layout and presented....learned much!\n\nVery helpful information to remember and follow. \n\nVery helpful slides illustrating the exact challenges I encounter and how to "translate" and transcribe.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Very helpful!\n\nVery helpful. Great examples!\n\nVery helpful. Thx\n\nVery informative\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative and an excellent presentation.\n\nVery informative and helpful to remember when reading old documents. \n\nVery informative and provided helpful tips.\n\nVery informative and well-presented\n\nvery informative webinar\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative, learned a lot from her examples. \n\nVery informative. Excellent!\n\nVery informative. I like the examples and especially the example regarding "Tom". Makes one stop and think.\n\nVery interesting \n\nvery interesting how writing and spelling has changed over time.I have had a go at transcribing some documents relating to my family and it took some time but eventually made some sense.thank you for the webinars.\n\nVery interesting.\n\nVery organized. Topic was simplified in a way that made it easy to understand. Thank you. \n\nVery solid content; well explained. Great examples. Thank you. \n\nVery useful, speaker exceptionally articulate and many thanks for the handout \n\nVery valuable. The emphasis on transcribing your own from original records is tedious but gives the complete picture. I am humming and haaing as a volunteer transcriber. Do I need certification first? (I am Australian)\n\nVery, very informative. Thanks for all the examples and explanations.\n\nwas very interesting. Learned quite a few things that are sure to help when I come across any hand written documents.\n\nWell organized and complete. \n\nwell organized and presented. \n\nWell presented webinar. Thank you!\n\nWonderful\n\nWonderful presentation. Especially helpful on how to format transcriptions and on archaic letter forms. I needed that! Now we need a webinar on abstractions!

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   great topic\n\nGreat, hands-on webinar. Enjoyed looking at actual document and the writing style of the particular "enumerator" or author. \n\nGreat,great information!\n\nHaving never transcribed a document, I thought the instructions were very well thought and presented. Thank you for speaking slowly (for me) in presenting this info.\n\nHelpful. I have some original Civil War letters from a 2nd great uncle to transcribe.\n\nI appreciated LaBrenda's examples of words and names that could easily be misconstrued, such as John for Tom and Elissa Powell's Dubois for dautu[?]rs. (I forget which vowel was used after the t.) The red arrows also helped to point out words on which LaBrenda was commenting. \n\nI appreciated the in-depth comments by LaBrenda. Eye opening.\n\nI felt LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson provided many great suggestions and advice with useful examples to help in transcribing documents. I have, through trial and error, taught myself and used many of these strategies. So much of my research is similar to the webinar examples as much of my personal research has been in 18th and 19th century North Carolina. Exposure and practice is where I have benefited and LaBrenda's advice to volunteer to for opportunities to practice is spot on. Great webinar! Thank you!\n\nI found all the information and suggestions helpful.\n\nI found answers to many questions that I didn't even know I had!! La Brenda is so good at this. I hope she does more webinars. \n\nI greatly appreciated Ms. Garrett-Nelson’s pace and deliver style. I often find speakers going too fast for me to take my handwritten notes. Also, the breadth and depth of her knowledge about the subject was so helpful.\n\nI have not done a lot of transcription. I would feel a lot braver doing it now.\n\nI previously took a class on transcribing documents but this excellent presentation actually reinforced information and taught me several new things, but most of all it made me more aware of how important it is to transcribe records as well as to question transcribed records that I am using.\n\nI really learned a lot!\n\nI really liked the examples of deciphering tricky handwriting.\n\nI sat in on your NGS session on transcribing but I was way in the back. This webinar allowed me to learn what I missed from sitting so far away. \n\nI started late, so i'm planning to re-view the whole session when it's put into the library. What i did see was very swell structured, clearly presented and explained.\n\nI would have given it a 5 except that I already trained myself do transcribe exactly the way LaBrenda explained how it should be done, and why. If I hadn't been doing this already, I would give this a 5.\n\nI'm working on transcriptions now for genealogy courses and I found seeing her point out words and showing how to look for similarities made a lot more sense than just reading a book. She had a lot of good pointers. And her presentation seemed to be just the perfect pace. Thank you!\n\ninteresting good reminder to review and check all transcriptions\n\nInteresting and informative. Very glad I spent the time learning this. Will try to help on some of the projects.\n\nInteresting and well done.\n\nIt confirmed a lot of my practices and encouraged me to do more. I loved it!\n\nIt was much more interesting than I anticipated. LaBrenda made a dry subject interesting.\n\nIt was very helpful and practical in both reading and transcribing records and documents. \n\nJust what I needed! \n\nLa Brenda used good examples.\n\nLaBrenda always gives a very informative and interesting program.\n\nLaBrenda did an excellent job of pointing out difficult letters/words and illustrating how she analyzed and determined the correct letter/word from other characters in the document. I appreciated the idea of entering [illegible] when you just can't figure out what the document says.

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   A very clear presentation on a difficult to decipher subject.\n\nAlways learn something new.\n\nBrilliant webinar which helps to teach that it is always a must to read and transcribe our own documents.\n\nComprehensive and informative! Even though I have transcribed many documents before, there are always new things to learn and standards to revisit and review!\n\nCovered the subject and techniques of transcribing documents very well. THANK YOU!\n\nDr. Garrett-Nelson's webinar gave me a better understanding of why transcriptions were incorrect.\n\nExamples and explanations were very helpful.\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent - answered many of my questions.\n\nExcellent examples and information!\n\nExcellent information! I will do much better at transcribing records now.\n\nExcellent presentation by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson. I submitted my portfolio about a month ago. I hope it is alright to continue participating in the webinars and other learning presentations. \n\nExcellent presentation with wonderful examples.\n\nExcellent Webinar - very helpful to me.\n\nExcellent, applicable for various experience levels. Really helpful examples and recommendations\n\nExcellent.. She explained examples in detail. Thank you.\n"\nExellent presentation and awesome information. Will really help me understand the process of reading old documents. Thanks! \n\nFantastic information! Very instructive.\n\nGarrett-Nelson's presentation was excellent! The material was explained clearly and succinctly.\n\nGood presentation of transcribing.\n\nGood reminders\n\nGood variety of examples to illustrate the challenges of transcription.\n\nGreat examples\n\ngreat examples of the trouble with interpretation of the old language differences and current. good advice.\n\nGreat idea about volunteering to do transcriptions!\n\nGreat information! Made the subject more accessible.\n\nGreat Job\n\nGreat presenter with excellent examples and explanations.

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