Seward Project

[Linda Anderson]

Here's some more information on the Seward Project from the Democrat & Chronicle.

"Slaughter is spearheading a collaborative effort with UR's Digital Humanities Center and Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation of Rush Rhees Library to transcribe and put online some of these documents. The public will be able to view them and, by clicking on names in the transcribed documents, be connected to additional information about the people mentioned and customs of the day...

"The Seward Family Project will give the public a look at 19th-century upstate history that goes well beyond the big names of history.

"With a $360,000 grant from the Fred L. Emerson Foundation, which is a family-based charity in Auburn, a dozen UR students — both graduate and undergraduate — are now working on the project.

"A digital image of the document will appear on the left side of the computer screen and the transcribed version on the right.

"The viewer can click on a name and be connected to additional information about the person. UR has acquired databases — Ancestry.com and findagrave.com — to help compile information about the people mentioned in the Seward papers."

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/stor.../21231955/