LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – For the primary time in Kentucky, a staff is working to digitize historic information of enslaved individuals, courting again to the late 1700s.
The challenge will make it simpler for individuals to entry details about their household historical past.
Downtown Lexington was the positioning of one of many greatest slave markets within the southeastern United States, previously generally known as Cheapside.
“One of many myths was on the market was that there was one central e book that had all of the names of slaves that have been bought at Cheapside and that’s not true,” mentioned Shea Brown, Fayette County Particular Initiatives Deputy Clerk.
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In Fayette County, information of enslaved people are captured all through varied report books.
“One of many hardest issues with these information is making an attempt to learn the outdated colonial-style handwriting,” Brown mentioned. “It’s written in a script that’s in a time interval that most individuals aren’t accustomed to.”
With the intention to discover details about their enslaved members of the family, individuals must undergo outdated, giant, hard-to-read books.
“It’s lots to it. It’s a variety of work and the one method you are able to do it’s maintain coming in every day, spend a while within the clerk’s workplace,” Brown mentioned. “So, then we began considering, ‘effectively, what if this data will be made obtainable on-line?’”
That’s why the Digital Entry Challenge is working to make this course of simpler by digitizing 137 report books, greater than 60,000 pages.
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“There’s two issues that this challenge will do. It’ll permit individuals to have simpler alternative to see these information, however, the second factor, these books are fading away, so this challenge will maintain data saved into the long run eternally digitally,” Brown mentioned.
A staff is working to scan the books and so they’ll later be posted on-line. After the preliminary challenge launches the objective is to transcribe the information, making it even simpler for individuals to entry the knowledge.
Brown says the objective is to launch the primary a part of the challenge in the summertime of 2023.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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