Dear volunteers:
We're trying very hard to find a balance between meeting the needs of the volunteers,
meeting the needs of the project, and meeting the needs of our site visitors.
I just updated the staff announcements to reflect some changes in expectations. While we
love to be as patient and helpful to our volunteer army as possible, we must have some
guidelines in place to ensure work gets finished.
Please log in to your folders to make sure you know whether you have work or not. If there
is work in there that you don't want to do, contact Sue. If your folders are very
behind (you can tell by the date on the image or transcription), contact Sue and let her
know you plan to catch up shortly.
We have just reassigned all counties that were more than 1 year behind. On April 1,
we'll reassign all counties that are more than 9 months behind, and on May 1,
we'll reassign all counties that are more than 6 months behind. Catching these
counties up is very doable. As always, we will help you if you have temporary health
issues, etc.
I'm attaching a PDF file of the number of untranscribed images that are over 6 months
old for the transcribers to get an idea of where there counties are, and a PDF of
unproofed transcriptions for the proofers to see where their counties are. Neither of
these printouts is counting pended records.
There are a lot of workload shuffles going on right now so if you want additional counties
or decreased workloads, let Sue know.
Thank you all so very much! You are awesome!
Sheryl