Project Goals
Project Goals
Get people involved in the history of the Wiregrass through New Media:
- Use social media services like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. to help engage the people of the Wiregrass and spread our content through those services.
- Encourage Wikipedia editing by professors, teachers, students, and other trained individuals in general, and also organize edt-a-thons for Wiregrass related Wikipedia articles.
- Use volunteers to photograph at risk sites, conduct oral history interviews, and create short documentaries.
- Organize Find A Grave data entry drives to input information from death certificates for the region available from the Georgia Archives for the period of 1914-1927, and 1928-1940, and create related lists of death certificates for those death certificates where the burial entry is blank, unreadable, or vague.
- Organize presentations by professional historians at local venues, and film the presentations for our YouTube channel.
Promote a history from the bottom up perspective of the Wiregrass:
- The website will host articles on by amateur and professional historians, especially articles about subjects that are not covered elsewhere.
- Conduct oral history interviews from people of all economic backgrounds, genders, and races.
- Provide list of quality resources for people to use for further research.
Provide aid to local historical societies and state organizations:
- Work with local and state historical societies to help identify at risk structures, and use our photography/oral history/article program to provide assistance when warranted.
- Use our base of volunteers and social media presence to promote local historical societies and to encourage our volunteers and others to assist them.