About this site

This site is to share information for transcription of documents for the Citizen Archivist Project, Singapore.

For a start, it will contain contents from the “Guide to Transcribing Straits Settlements Records” produced by the National Archives. Hopefully this will be augmented by contributions from the citizen archivists out there such as Sharon Chong, Vandana Aggarwal, Gary Chow, Diane Leong, Ho Chak Loon, Fong Poh San, Edward Richard Hale etc. And, they could share their experiences, if possible.

This site is still under construction.

If you have any comments, feedback, contributions etc., you can fill in the “Leave a Reply”  box at the bottom of the relevant page. Alternatively, you can email lymguest@gmail.com.

 

Instructions for navigating this site

For PC, click on the menu items e.g. Guide, Sharing below the title of the blog.

For smartphone, click on the three-bar icon at the top centre and the menu items e.g. Guide, Sharing will appear.

Guide displays the icons of items that may help you in transcription, in alphabetical order (except for “Others” which is at the bottom).
Click on the topic icon or icon name to see the details.
To see the items for the preceding or following topic, click on the topic name at the bottom right or left of the page.
Or you can click on Guide at the top to make new selections.

Sharing contains articles that may interest you. They are in reverse chronological order i.e. the latest is displayed first. If you would like to view others, click on ‘Older Posts’.

If you click on the + sign enclosed within a triangle at the bottom centre of the page, you can find out about Recent Posts, Recent Comments or perform a Search on content at this website.

At any time, you can click on the menu items at the top, the + within the triangle icon at the bottom to move around; or the title of the blog “Citizen Archivist Sharing” at the top to return to this page.