Digitizing History An Inside Look At The Project Preserving Lexingtons Historic Records

Digitizing History An Inside Look At The Project Preserving L Brown is the special projects deputy clerk for fayette county but has taken on the role of supervising director for the “digital access project.” the project to digitize more than 60,000 pages worth of land records, deeds, wills, and other documents began as part of the city’s effort to acknowledge lexington’s role in the slave market. Lexington was among the first major cities settled in kentucky and today centuries of history are still sitting on the shelves of the county clerk’s office. but those pages of records will not last forever, they were kept the old fashioned way. handwritten, line by line in massive record books. to make those records more accessible in the modern way every page is being digitized for an.

Digitizing History An Inside Look At The Project Preserving L Lexington, ky. ( fox 56) — lexington has a dark past. for nearly 80 years, the city was the site of one of the largest slave markets in the country. however, it hasn’t always been easy to access the historical records of those bought and sold here, until now. there are more than 60,000 pages detailing the city’s darkest chapter, where. Please continue to visit our website at fayettedeeds as we work to upload all the images. to find records that have not yet been made available online, please visit the fayette county clerk's office from 8:00am 4:30pm, monday through friday at 162 e. main, room 132, lexington, ky 40507. we appreciate your continued support as we. Digitizing historical records projects frequently asked questions how can we demonstrate that the project materials are nationally significant? you will need to convince reviewers with varying degrees of knowledge about american history that the project materials are nationally significant. do not assume that because an event or debate is familiar to you that it will be familiar to others. The digital access project is a partnership between the university of kentucky’s commonwealth institute of black studies, the lexington black prosperity initiative, and the clerk’s office. they began digitizing on may 23 and will continue until the work is done.

Importance Of Digitization Of Historical Records Digitizing historical records projects frequently asked questions how can we demonstrate that the project materials are nationally significant? you will need to convince reviewers with varying degrees of knowledge about american history that the project materials are nationally significant. do not assume that because an event or debate is familiar to you that it will be familiar to others. The digital access project is a partnership between the university of kentucky’s commonwealth institute of black studies, the lexington black prosperity initiative, and the clerk’s office. they began digitizing on may 23 and will continue until the work is done. Thanks to the digital access project partnership, fayette county will be the first county in kentucky to digitize its historical property records dating back to the late 1700s. “after months of planning, the meticulous work of digitizing began on may 23, and will continue until each of the 137 deed and probate books, along with their indexes. In order to broaden access to the archives’ collections, and reduce the impact of frequent handling, the archives is digitizing its most valuable and used collections. high resolution surrogates of the archives’ digitized collections are created and available online for researchers, scholars and the public to view, and download for personal and educational purposes.