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• Transcribe the text as is, including punctuation, misspellings and abbreviations.
• Misspellings: You may correct a misspelled word by typing the correctly spelled word in brackets after the misspelling: werk [work]
• Illegibile text: Indicate illegible text with 2 question marks on either side of the word(s) in question: ??work??
• If a word is completely illegible marke it: ??illegible??
• Line Breaks: Hit Enter once after each line ends. Two returns indicate a new paragraph, whether indicated by a blank line or by indentation in the original.
• Abbreviations or shorthands: Transcribe people's names exactly as they appear, including typos and abbreviations: Thpmas or Wm. For town and city names, however, type the correct name: Marengo instead of Maringo
• Marginalia: Do not transcribe annotations or marginalia not written by the author.
• Tables: Skip any tables you see for now, unless you have a lot of experience with table encoding on From the Page.

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