Posts by Amanda Breeden

Genealogical research is very rewarding but can be challenging to collect your sources. Meet Sourcery, your new favorite tool to retrieve your hard-to-access documents and uncover your family’s history!  Sourcery can help you with multiple steps in your genealogical research:  Sourcery helps you collect crucial materials to open new research paths or confirm family stories.…

We’ve been busy at Sourcery this year making changes and planning for future Sourcery upgrades!   This past Monday, the Sourcery team had our second all-hands meeting of the year to discuss important changes and updates headed your way. Sourcery is an inherently collaborative project with many different moving parts (and people), so all-hands meetings are…

If you’re prepping for summer research and in need of remote archival materials, submitting a Sourcery request is a great way to get your hands on them! Submitting a request might seem daunting at first, but we’ve prepared this simple guide with step-by-step instructions to help you along the way!   Materials to have ready  There…

Use this quick reference guide to help you create scans for fulfilling Sourcery requests! See “More Resources” for a more detailed guide as well as links to other Sourcerer resources.  First, a refresher on “reference quality:”  Remember that Sourcery is intended to be a resource for researchers to get reference quality scans of undigitized materials. …

Are you wondering how Sourcery can be of use to you? Want to learn more about becoming a Sourcerer and getting paid to fulfill requests? Schedule a 1:1 meeting with a member of the Sourcery team to ask your burning questions!  Schedule a meeting to…  📅 Schedule an appointment via Google Calendar: https://calendar.app.google/E2WLhaiRjDCNZkwdA  

Signing up to be a Sourcerer is an easy and intuitive process, but what does being a Sourcerer actually entail? Read on for a detailed description of the duties, responsibilities, and required skills associated with being a Sourcerer. Responsibilities Requirements Compensation Each Sourcery job pays: Payments are made via Stripe and deposit directly in your…

Sourcery spent this past weekend in Philadelphia at the Organization of American Historians annual conference and answered many questions about getting started as a Sourcerer. So, we created this short guide to help recent conference attendees and new Sourcerers get started!   Creating an account   The first step to becoming a Sourcerer is, of course,…

Good news: You don’t have to be in the United States to use Sourcery! From anywhere in the world you can place a request for scans of archival materials that are located in over 40 active locations across the U.S.! Now you can easily request scans of materials held by hundreds of different repositories –…

Ready to fill Sourcery requests and wondering about the best way to create the scans using your mobile device? Luckily, there are many different options to choose from, including the native scanning option on your device. Use this guide to help you decide which scanner is best for you!   ✳️ Please note that inclusion in…

Completing your first Sourcery job might seem daunting at first. Use this guide to help you break down the steps and make the process as easy and painless as possible!   ➡️ You can view each step with more details through the Sourcerer Handbook and view technical steps through our tutorials, which should be available later…