How I’m Usually Going to Post: Since some of you are also writers exploring reclaiming family history, I’ll start each post talking about any particular tools, craft elements, or research techniques that apply to that particular post. Then I will get into the stories themselves, and explore how the revelations in each impact what I’ll be researching next and how I understand my own family’s past.
Thanks so much for your helpful recommendation to use Otter! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for apps or programs transcribing (doesn't have to be perfect) already existing digital audio files (I converted taped family interviews from the 1970s to digital files). Would Otter work for that too? It wasn't clear from their website if it would.
If you would like to support the Ukrainian refugee crisis, please consider HIAS, a Jewish refugee organization, well established in the Ukraine, with a great track record helping refugees. I want to emphasize that, while it is a Jewish organization, it does not just support Jewish refugees. This blog was set up to reach out to family united in its history of ancestors who fled Russia to escape persecution. How fitting that it be used to support a new wave of refugees.
Thanks so much for your helpful recommendation to use Otter! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for apps or programs transcribing (doesn't have to be perfect) already existing digital audio files (I converted taped family interviews from the 1970s to digital files). Would Otter work for that too? It wasn't clear from their website if it would.
If you would like to support the Ukrainian refugee crisis, please consider HIAS, a Jewish refugee organization, well established in the Ukraine, with a great track record helping refugees. I want to emphasize that, while it is a Jewish organization, it does not just support Jewish refugees. This blog was set up to reach out to family united in its history of ancestors who fled Russia to escape persecution. How fitting that it be used to support a new wave of refugees.