The historic Black community of Sandy Springs, MD
will be the focus of this year’s virtual program
All 2026 transcribe-a-thons* will focus on documents which contain information about the Black community in Sandy Spring, 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.
