Transcription Opportunities at NARA

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You may have seen this on the nightly news, but I wanted to remind you that that National Archives and Records Administration has invited the public to be part of the digitizing effort of the organization. To learn more about how you can help, you can view more information here: Citizen Archivist | National Archives. I would recommend reading more details about the opportunities by Register and Get Started | National Archives which explains more about how you can dig in and help with transcribing records and providing tags to make these records more discoverable.
The first step is to set up an account with NARA—they use login.gov as their login mechanism. Initial reading indicates that you can create an account for use with NARA using a different email from your existing login.gov account. It also appears that you can choose to focus on the transcription work that needs to be accomplished or focus on tagging key words to make documents more discoverable. Fellow family historians will be thankful to have documents available online that were otherwise only found onsite.
If you would like more detail on how the transcribing process works, you can view step by step details: Get Started Transcribing | National Archives. This section is quite detailed and includes information on finding a document to transcribe, using the transcription tool and how to handle unusual items such as crossed-out text or other notes.
The good news is that you can transcribe as your schedule allows so if you only have one day a week or once a month, you can still make a difference. Happy transcribing!