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Documentation Detectives: Transcribing Accession Registers

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Welcome to BMT's Documentation Detectives! Check out our project intro video here.
Our accession register records may contain offensive and outdated terms. For more information, please see the Content Note on our About Page.

Happy 1 Year Zooniversary Documentation Detectives! There is a new upload today (12th March), as well as a surprise in our Announcement post which you can read here. The next upload will return to our usual 3 weekly schedule (2nd April).

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Get Started!

Choose to transcribe typed or handwritten object records found in our accession registers. Simply click either of the yellow folders below to select your preferred record type. Once selected, you can get started by underlining each line of text and typing out what you see, as it is written.

Check out our 'About' page for more project information including FAQs and content notes. Happy transcribing!