Articles by Crista Cowan
Introducing…The World Memory Project
Today, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announce the launch of the World Memory Project. The goal is to build the largest free online resource for information about victims and survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution during World War II. The Museum’s archives contain information on well over 17 million… Read more
Ancestry World Archives Project: It’s Not Too Late To Get In On The Action
If you are a member of our Ancestry World Archives community then you know all about the World Record Challenge. If you are not yet a member of our community, we thought we would let you in on what we have been doing and give you a chance to participate. Our passionate and engaged community… Read more
Ancestry World Archives Project: January Highlights
If you read the World Archives blog you may have caught Anna’s post last week announcing the two new projects we released for keying – Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1872-1914 and the Lübeck 1862 Census. And, if you read the Ancestry Monthly Update you might have noticed that one of… Read more
Ancestry World Archives Project: Keying During the Holidays
Over 22,000 of you have signed up to participate in the Ancestry World Archives Project since we launched it earlier this year. You joined the 10,000+ that registered during our beta period last year. Collectively, you have keyed over 30 million records and manually arbitrated an astounding 5 million record discrepancies in our double-keying and… Read more
Ancestry World Archives Project Releases Nebraska State Census, 1860-1885
The following post is from guest blogger Suzanne Russo Adams. Suzanne is the Ancestry.com Society Partnership Manager. About a year ago, I made a phone call to Floyd Smith III, President of the Nebraska State Genealogical Society and asked if this society would be interested in partnering with the Ancestry World Archives Project to index… Read more
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