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University of Rochester
The Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation has provided funding to support college students training senior-citizen volunteers in transcription and annotation of historical manuscripts, and to extend this model for community-engaged collaboration beyond the Rochester region. We will also create a series of short videos narrated by volunteers and students that illustrate and supplement the written training guidelines that we have on our Seward Family Archive Project website. The digital archive is comprised of approximately 6,000 pages of letters and an additional 5,000 pages of manuscripts from the family of William Henry Seward (1801-1872), Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, state senator, and Governor of New York.