Who to speak to at FamilySearch for advice on an African American records preservation project?
I'm already doing a cemetery transcription project for a historically African American cemetery in Florida. There may be an additional opportunity here to preserve the burial permit records, which today are original paper in a large filing cabinet. I'm capable of doing the digitization myself and rallying volunteers. Is there someone from FamilySearch that could speak with me for advice on capturing images of these paper records? This is an unusual cemetery so these burial permits may be key records for family history research for some of the people buried there. It has been called at various times a pauper's cemetery, a black cemetery, an African American cemetery, and now a community cemetery operated by a non-profit. My email address is janderse@gmail.com.
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@Jon Andersen I would suggest contacting your local Family History Center https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/where-do-i-find-a-family-history-center which may be able to help you, or you could try contacting Family search support https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-contact-familysearch-support.
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the people you really need to get ahold of are those from FamilySearch that go out in the field and photograph/digitize records of genealogical value. People at local family history centers would have little to no experience in this area. It would be someone FamilySearch (centrally) that would know who to contact. I will see if I have any contacts to share.
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