New Assassination records going online

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The Lincoln Archives Digital Project is proud to announce new records going online. The original records which were placed on microfilm M619, which deal with the applications for the offered rewards for the capture of Booth and others, as well as the capture of Jefferson Davis have been digitized and are going online within the Lincoln Archives, which is located at http://www.lincolnarchives.us/cgi-bin/li...Drg94-967.

The following folders have gone online. Some of them have linked documents. I will be working diligently to get a large portion of these records online by April 15, 2018.
I have notebook 3 completed, and if you click on the transcriptions tab, they images are divided numerically. Also check the transcription tabs with the documents. Have managed to get quite a few of them transcribed, so things will be fully searchable as more and more are transcribed.
Folder 2a - http://lincolnarchives.org/cgi-bin/linco...g94-967-2a
Folder 2b - http://lincolnarchives.org/cgi-bin/linco...g94-967-2b
Folder 7 - http://lincolnarchives.org/cgi-bin/linco...rg94-967-7
Folders 9a and 9b, have the list up, but have not linked the documents yet
Folder 10a - http://lincolnarchives.org/cgi-bin/linco...94-967-10a
The Lincoln Archives Digital Project was launched in 2002. In 2006 the website went live, and in 2007 the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission endorsed the project. This project is working to shift the paradigm of how presidential projects are done. To fully understand Abraham Lincoln, as President, as Commander in Chief, as husband, as father, all federal records (Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Military records) beginning in November 1860, digitizing all records related to the President Elect, ending on April 15, 1865, with some exceptions: records relating to the assassination, the capture, trial and execution, the capture and imprisonment of Jefferson Davis, the trial of Henry Wirz, ending with the trial of John Surratt.

Also included on the website are newspapers, political cartoons, maps, a Who’s Who, and a Special Features section, which focuses on issues like the Dakota War of 1862, the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the Capture of Jefferson Davis.

The website is organized virtually to parallel how the physical records are organized at the National Archives. This project is a work in progress. The records are all being transcribed for full search capabilities.

This is a public service project. There is NO subscription to access these records. This is a state non profit, not a federal 501© 3, but donations are always so appreciated. There is so much new scholarship through the millions of records which were NOT included in the Official records. Letting the technology do all of the hard work, linking related documents across the hundreds of record groups and millions of entries, which provide users with instant access to those records.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via email at lincolnarchives@gmail.com or karen.needles@gmail.com

[L Verge]

I just want to add that this a pure work of love on Karen's part. She gets meager financial help (not sure that she gets any from the federal government) and does the majority of the work herself. Karen spoke at the 2017 Surratt conference about the project, and our executive board surprised her with a nice monetary donation.

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(02-02-2018 07:21 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I just want to add that this a pure work of love on Karen's part. She gets meager financial help (not sure that she gets any from the federal government) and does the majority of the work herself. Karen spoke at the 2017 Surratt conference about the project, and our executive board surprised her with a nice monetary donation.

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Laurie, thanks so much for the compliment. Yes, it is a passionate obsession with the history of the Lincoln administration. There are soooo many things on my checkoff list. I need to update the content management system, so am always looking for a Drupal 8 guru who has just as much of a love with Drupal, and willing to provide some free time to help me get the modules and the templates going. Same with the database. NARA says they have 30 million records that fall within the scope of this project. It may be massive, but every day I scan records is a success. They weren't scanned the day before, and now online, everyone will have access to those records.