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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hello Everyone, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Ohio History Connection (OHC) Digital Services staff are pleased to announce further progress on “Little Stories of the Great War: Ohioans
in World War I,” a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The public can now interact directly with historical materials shared online by helping transcribe handwritten letters, diaries and more at
<span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="transcribe.ohiohistory.org"><span style="color:#0070C0">transcribe.ohiohistory.org</span></a></span>! Transcribed text is added to the digital item’s record on Ohio Memory, making the content easier to discover and use.
By contributing time to transcribe these documents, users are helping to uncover and share the important experiences of Ohioans during the Great War. The code for the transcription tool will be made freely available through an open source license.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New digitized and educational content from OHC and project partner organizations is regularly being added to the digital collection, available
at <span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/wwi"><span style="color:#0070C0">http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/wwi</span></a></span>. We encourage you to visit explore these resources, and stay tuned for more on the progress of “Little
Stories of the Great War”! Questions about the project? Please contact project staff at
<span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="mailto:ohiomemory@ohiohistory.org"><span style="color:#0070C0">ohiomemory@ohiohistory.org</span></a></span>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Kristen Newby|Project Coordinator<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ohio History Connection|800 East 17<sup>th</sup> Ave., Columbus, OH 43211-2474<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">p. <a href="mailto:614.297.2581%7Cknewby@ohiohistory.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">614.297.2581|knewby@ohiohistory.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pronouns: She/Her/Hers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ohiohistoricalsociety"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="16" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.png@01D39B49.A98A3000" alt="ohio history facebook"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><a href="https://twitter.com/ohiohistory"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="16" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.png@01D39B49.A98A3000" alt="ohio history twitter"></span></b></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Ohio History Connection’s <a href="https://www.ohiohistory.org/about-us">
<span style="color:#0563C1">mission</span></a> is to spark discovery of Ohio’s stories. Embrace the present, share the past and transform the future.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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