Transcribe Signature Document For Free

Hey everybody welcome back to another episode on Genealogy TV. My name is Connie Knox a lifelong genealogist here to help you go further faster but factually with your family research. Today on this Tiny Tip Tuesday, we are talking about the differences between an abstract and a transcription. I'm also going to show you how to go from an original to a transcription to an abstract. To look at the differences between a transcript and an abstract let's take a look at the definitions. A transcript is an exact copy of a record word-for-word preserving the original capitalization punctuation and spelling. An abstract is a condensed version of a record preserving all of the important details in the original sequence which is important. So this is a three-step process to go from document to abstract. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna transcribe this document we're gonna strike out the details that we don't need and then we're gonna remove those details and condense it into an abstract so this document is a partial document for the sake of this video I could not show you the whole document it is several pages long but we're gonna transcribe an abstract just the first part of this for the sake of you at home being able to actually see it you also want a proper source citation with all of your documents as I have listed here so if we take a look at this document real carefully you can see that there are indents here there are various marks punctuation we're going to preserve all of that in the original transcription so just to read a couple lines here it says your petitioner is Duncan Rush and wife Margret see there's a little equal sign that I think their version of a - William Henley Henry Henley Jonathan P Winslow and wife Jane ischium thrift and wife Mary Thomas Henley Rebecca Henley Alexandre Henley and John Henley respectfully represent to your worship that John Henley departed this life some three years ago intestate and seized of a tract of land in the county where in so you get the idea I'm not gonna read the whole thing so you read through the document and you start typing so when you start typing you want to preserve all those indents so as we move on to this tree inscription we want a word-for-word document exactly as we see it line for line so if you'll notice that first line where Margaret was wrapped around see Margaret was wrapped around William and so on down to Jonathan P Winslow so here we have Jonathan P Winslow so you keep each line preserved exactly as it was in your first transcription of this document and keep that as a true transcription so you're going to do the word-for-word and include all marks special characters and indents so now for the sake of this video I have removed character returns so that I could demonstrate this a little bit better so here I've got the document without the returns now normally you would not do this but for the sake of this video I had to do this so that you could actually see all the...