Virtual YESterday was established in 2002
to apply the power of database technology to local history information, and to make that information accessible to neighborhoods, schools, communities and individuals.

Virtual Yesterday initiatives include:

transcribing pocket daybook diaries of "ordinary people" from each community in 19th century Massachusetts, steadily expanding the scope of the project to include other areas and time periods

organizing Transcription Teams
of students, teachers, senior citizens, scholars, local historians, genealogists and others to locate, transcribe and annotate first-person diary accounts of day-to-day life in the past

creating a database of transcriptions
that will grow into a searchable "Virtual Time Machine" for scholars, commercial researchers, writers, students and family historians

sharing the results of this work
through electronic publications and public education programs

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