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Skills: Transcribing, Abstracting & Extracting |
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| This Skills: Transcribing, Abstracting & Extracting course has been designed to promote the quality of work that every family historian and genealogist should strive to achieve. Do not limit your level of excellence by assuming that this program is not relevant to your specific projects.
You will already have studied the instructional materials required in your Basic Level Methodology courses. Enriching your skills, this course will allow you to implement the knowledge and training you will receive through the course reading materials, practical exercises and assignments to practice and improve your transcribing, abstracting and extracting capabilities. It is advised that you complete the Methodology - Part 1: Getting Started and Methodology - Part 2: Organizing and Skillbuilding courses before beginning this one.
This course will teach students the transcribing, abstracting and extracting skills to enhance their genealogy research. Practicing these skills will form a large part of the course work. Examples will be provided for your reference in order to give you a model on which to base your developing skills. As well, citations have been included with the examples and are provided for reference purposes.
Please note: Our students are studying different courses or countries, many examples of documents from around the world are used to give as much experience of the differing formats and types of documents.
Course Content
Module 1
Introduction
Websites
Suggested Reading
Transcriptions
Introduction
What is a Transcription?
What to Transcribe
General Rules for Transcriptions
Citation and Other Documentation
Method of Transcribing a Document
Example - Document
Method of Transcribing Directly from the Original Document
Certificates
Censuses and Other Lists
Passenger Lists
Headstones
Interviews
Example - Transcription
Practical Exercises
Module 2
Word Processing Features
Auto Correction
Spell Check
Automatic Capitalization
Superscript and Subscript
Small Capitals
Lines Over Letters
Tables
Indentations & Margins
Large Bracket
Practical Exercises
Module 3
Abstractions
Websites
What is an Abstraction?
When to Abstract a Document?
General Rules for Abstracting
Method of Abstracting from a Transcribed Document
Method of Abstracting Directly from a Document
Example of Abstracting a Document
Practical Exercises
Module 4
Practical Exercises
Module 5
Extractions
Websites
What is an Extraction?
Census
Church Registers
General Rules for Extracting
Quotations
What is a Quotation?
General Rules for Quoting
Practical Exercises
Module 6
Practical Exercises
Appendix
Forms
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