The focus this year will be the historic Black community of Sandy Springs.

Learn more about how to participate
on the Sandy Spring Museum site.

All 2026 transcribe-a-thons* are virtual and will focus on documents which contain information about the Black community in Sandy Spring, Maryland a community which has previously been under-documented in the Museum’s archives.

By transcribing these 19th century documents, you make the entire content searchable allowing all instances of a person’s name to be found across our archives rather than simply by the details of their documents’ white authors.