When you click to our Washington Digital Archives website (www.digitalarchives.wa.gov) or any digital archives for that matter, have you paused to wonder where did this information, so available to me right now, come from????
Well, it came from folks just like you and me volunteering some of our time to index records that the archives has already digitized. Without an index, such images are un-searchable. (At least not easily.) Look at the stats below: our Washington Digital Archives has preserved nearly 237,000,000 records BUT only 83,520,842 are indexed and easily findable. That's a humungous difference.
And YOU and I can make a difference. Just click to the website (or Google it) find SCRIBE, sign up and bingo, you're good to go. (EWGS members Charles Hansen and Jeanne Coe are regular SCRIBErs.)
And the next time you look at that impressive list of record-images available to you, don't just be thankful but be helpful.
(Figures below as of mid-January 2022.)
igital Archives Statistics
Records Preserved:
236,859,390Records Searchable:
83,520,842New this month:
143,410
Digital Archives Statistics
Records Preserved:
236,859,390Records Searchable:
83,520,842New this month:
143,410
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