Tuesday January 23rd, 2018

I reported to the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission at 8:00 a.m. I started back on my digitization of the records of Good Hope Baptist Church in Newton, Mississippi.  I was following the idea of 'original order' in my mind so I accidentally digitized items from the first volume that I had already digitized.  I realized it and was able to continue at the exact spot I had left off in volume 2 on page 79.   I took a break for lunch at 12:30 p.m. and returned at 1:00 p.m. I got to page 135 in volume 2.  The software that shall be used to digitize an oral history collection on cassette tapes was installed on the computer I am using.  I was instructed on how to properly use the software on the computer in conjunction with the audio-cassettes.  I practiced with the software.  I found it to be very compliant with my needs.  One must play the audio-cassette of the oral history and record it to the software.  The trick is keeping a proper recording playback volume.  An individual can edit extra empty sound that is not needed.  However, I ran into a problem in that the first cassette tape was not rewound and the device used to play the cassettes did not have the capabilities or rewinding and fast forwarding.  It was decided that someone would bring a device for me to use that had these capabilities on Thursday.  I left the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission at 4:00 p.m.