This project depends on “History Detectives” to help with all phases of collecting information and putting it together in stories. For a quick slide show of the process check out Building the Archive. Curiosity is the first quality of a good detective but you don’t have to be an expert at history or computers to be a big help.  Everyone is good at something. If you are curious, you probably want to know what kinds of things “History Detectives” do.  To start with, you can work at home on your own schedule or at a nearby museum or library organizing material or scanning. There are a lot of hand-written documents that we can use help with typing up or just indexing their contents. There are other papers with people’s names that we want to be … Read entire article »