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# Historical Document Transcription Design Intent
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I have several thousand pages of family history told through letters, postcards, books, and other documents that I want to transcribe to text.
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## Goals
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1. Preserve our family history
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2. Unburden my family (and descendants) from having to store and care for the physical media. Once the documents have been transcribed and organized, they can be donated (or kept by a family member that wants to retain them).
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3. Make the text easily available and searchable by family members, as well as AI (which may have different requirements).
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4. Ability create timelines or assemble the historical record of the family or specific individuals from across the complete document archive. Perhaps use AI to create the timelines in a more narrative form.
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## Source material
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1. **letters, cards, diaries** - handwritten; mostly stored in tubs, with little organization
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2. **books** - typed or typeset; mostly self-published books 50-100 pages in length. This may be expanded to include selected pages from other publications.
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3. **newspaper clippings, event programs, invitations, and other ephemera**
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## Methodology
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1. Follow current best practices per "A Guide to Documentary Editing" by Mary-Jo Kline. (See [Transcription Methodology](transcription_methodology.md))
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