Three new transcription projects have been added to Mobile Lifeworlds, providing citizen scholars with opportunities to learn more about life in Lower Saxony, Cologne, and Hamburg in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.

The earliest transcription project is the Hillmann Letters Transcription Project, a set of six letters dating from 1857 to 1893. These letters were sent to immigrant Terressa "Tiede" Von Lehe, who was originally from the community of Cappel-Altendeich, in what is now Lower Saxony, by three generations of her family-- her father, her brother, and her nephew. Terressa Von Lehe and her husband Johann Christopher Von Lehe lived in 

Transcribe the Oscar Kubach Letters is the next project in chronological order. This project contains 41 letters sent between 1878 and 1886 to immigrant Oscar Kubach by his brothers and his stepmother. Oscar Kubach, the recipient of the letters, was a mining engineer who lived in Pennsylvania and West Virginia over the course of his career. While most of the letters were written from Cologne, one of Oscar Kubach's brothers, Rudolph, had immigrated to Philadelphia and wrote to his brother from there. These letters were digitized from the special collections of West Virginia University. 

The third project, Transcribe the Max Hinrichs Letters, is a group of letters sent between 1913 and 1920 to immigrant Max Hinrichs from his relatives in Hamburg and Oldenburg. Max Hinirchs was originally from Brake, Lower Saxony but later immigrated to Washington State and became a farmer there. This collection is provided by Washington State University.