Question

while researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• in 1998, the arcadia archive began digitizing handwritten census ledgers.
• the project focused on census records from three counties in northern ohio.
• over 2.4 million individual entries were scanned and indexed by 2012.
• volunteers used standardized transcription guidelines developed by the university of toledo.
• the digital archive is now used by historians studying population mobility.

the student wants to present the study and its methodology. which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

a) the arcadia archive has become an important resource for historians interested in tracking changes in population movement.

b) the arcadia archive digitized census ledgers from northern ohio by scanning millions of entries and applying uniform transcription rules created by the university of toledo.

c) more than two million census entries from ohio counties were indexed by the arcadia archive over a fourteen-year period.

d) the arcadia archive focused its efforts on census records drawn from three specific counties in northern ohio.

Explanation:

To present the study and its methodology, we need to include both what the study (digitizing census ledgers) was about and how it was done (methodology: scanning entries, using standardized transcription guidelines).

• Option A talks about the archive's importance now, not the study and methodology.
• Option B includes the what (digitized census ledgers from northern Ohio) and the how (scanning millions of entries, applying uniform transcription rules from University of Toledo), which matches the notes (digitizing, scanning/indexing, standardized transcription guidelines).
• Option C only focuses on the number of entries indexed, not the methodology or the full scope of the study.
• Option D only focuses on the focus of the census records, not the methodology.

Answer:

B. The Arcadia Archive digitized census ledgers from northern Ohio by scanning millions of entries and applying uniform transcription rules created by the University of Toledo.