Fall 2024: Greenwood Cemetery

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     With the conclusion of my second week, the similarities between what I am doing in my current internship and what I did with RICHES in 2023 is very evident. This week I spent most my time working on making a transcript and A/V log of an oral history that was done by the cemetery. To begin, I looked back at my previous correspondence with Geoffrey Cravero when I worked at RICHES. The transcripts that I will be working on for the Greenwood Cemetery are ultimately going to be added into the RICHES database. Looking back at my emails, I found the

         Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to begin a new internship. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     With my new internship, I will be working under another UCF Master's student, Sarah Boye, and will be assisting her with processing data from a recent History Harvest. This data includes oral histories, scanned documents, newspapers, and more. Much of this data will be inputted to the UCF RICHES digital collection. Coincidentally, my previous internship during my undergraduate (which I also have a blog about) was with RICHES, so I am pretty familiar with the different assignments that I will be dealing with this semester.     To talk more about my assignments, I will b