{"id":2831,"date":"2018-06-28T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?page_id=2831"},"modified":"2025-03-14T22:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T03:50:05","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Thank you for visiting the <br \/>TNGenWeb Historical News Indexing Project<\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>The purpose of this site is to coordinate crowd-sourced indexing of historical newspapers from across the state of Tennessee! Using the <a href=\"https:\/\/fromthepage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FromThePage<\/a> platform, we are excited to engage volunteers such as yourself in helping enhance the known historical record!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SEARCH THE DATABASE; MORE THAN 22,000 INDEXED ENTRIES<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_3093\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/news\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3093\" class=\"wp-image-3093 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/tn-news-index_screenshot-1024x501.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/tn-news-index_screenshot-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/tn-news-index_screenshot-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/tn-news-index_screenshot-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/tn-news-index_screenshot.png 1481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Tennessee News Index Database | <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/news\/<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Would you like to help index?<\/strong><\/em> To get started:<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:list {\"ordered\":true} -->\r\n<ol><!-- wp:list-item -->\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fromthepage.com\/tngenealogyindexing\/tennessee-newspapers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit the project page<\/a><\/li>\r\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\r\n<li>Sign up for an account<\/li>\r\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/tn-newspaper-indexing-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check out the directions<\/a> and index away!<\/li>\r\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ol>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><em><strong>We can also use help researching some of the names included in the index<\/strong><\/em>. 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