Articles About World Archives Project
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today, January 27th, is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As such, the United Nations has designated this day, each year, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, in particular, the theme is Children and the Holocaust. Over 1.5 million Jewish children, and tens of thousands of other children were murdered during the Holocaust.… Read more
My Genealogy Gratitude List. What’s Yours?
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. By this time next week I expect I will be overstuffed on turkey, overloaded on football and overjoyed at spending a long weekend with my extended family. I will also have spent the entire month posting (almost) daily status updates on my personal Facebook profile about the things I am grateful for. … Read more
The First World Memory Project Collection Now Available In Search
Three months ago, Ancestry.com and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum launched the World Memory Project. Since that time almost 2000 community contributors have indexed over 395,000 records across 15 different record collections. These records contain information about victims and survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi-era persecution. We are proud to announce that this generous community… Read more
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
World Archives Project Update
Over the past few months we have released 3 new projects keyed through the World Archives Project, England, Newspaper Index Cards, Sydney and New South Wales, Sands Street Index, 1861-1930 and Perth, Scotland, Survey of Inhabitants, 1766, 1773. The indexes for these projects, containing more than 1.27 million records, can be searched for free due to the efforts of 5500+ contributors!… 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
World Archives Project Releases New Projects: Slave Narratives and London School Admissions
In the past week we have released two exciting collections to be indexed through the World Archives Project. Yesterday we released the Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, 1936-1938. Within these records are interviews with former slaves, photos, and folklore – or in other words a captivating… 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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