ABSTRACT
Quickly, the reader will encounter text from a family history spreadsheet, sorted for the same topic, showing two narrators with content calling for fact-checking. That display is followed by a question about what ends up in a transcription as it goes from the narrator's mind to digitized or paper text. A professional transcriber answers that question and shares some differences she has noticed between work for her usual clients and for family historians. She adds suggestions for families working with transcribers. Other approaches to traditional transcribing follow, such as Michael Frisch's work in the area of editorial intervention to make transcripts understandable for uses in media formats, be they still or moving pictures, and this author's concept of editorial integration across transcripts and other sources. Examples of editorial integration to form a family history include going backwards from artwork to telling the family history. The integration of family history stories told by different living generations needs to be integrated in such a way as to show any connections that exist. An example is the notes at the beginning of this chapter as they meet up at the end with fact-checking and related stories from the younger generation.
