Articles About World Archives Project
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
A Mac or Not a Mac? Ancestry World Archives Project
That is the question that often arises when we announce new projects or a new tool update for the Ancestry World Archives keying tool. I acknowledge the frustration our Mac users in our community experiences when Ancestry produces products that are not Macintosh compatible. While we do not have anything new to announce for our… Read more
Economy Got You Down? Try Keying Some Naturalization Records…
The other day I took a break from obsessing about the stock market, health care reform and climate change to key some naturalization records for the Ancestry.com World Archives Project. I happened to get a batch of index cards for German immigrants who came to New York in the late 1800s. As I typed in… Read more
Ancestry World Archives Project releases their fourth project
Monday we launched the fourth project keyed through the Ancestry World Archives Project. The England and Wales Criminal Registers project was a favorite amongst contributors, mainly due to the incredibly fascinating information that we were keying – although we didn’t key the offenses I am positive we all read them. And really, in what other collection… Read more
Happy Anniversary: Ancestry World Archives Project marks its one year anniversary
Happy 1st Anniversary World Archives Project! We began the beta portion of the project in June of 2008, since then we have had a wonderful response from many of you including a number of partnerships with genealogical societies. Your passion for this work is evident through the phenomenal activity we see daily, you’re an amazing… Read more
U.S. Content Update: Alabama State Census & Returns from U.S. Military Posts
Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 The Alabama State Census was released a few days ago, becoming the second completed World Archives Project collection to be made available to the public. As with all completed World Archives Projects, the index is viewable free of charge! Thank you to the many contributors who keyed in the names, races… Read more
First World Archives Project Record Collection Complete
Ancestry.com is excited to announce the completion of the first record collection indexed through the World Archives Project, its new community indexing program. Community contributors participating in the project indexed the nearly 60,000 records within the Wisconsin Mortality Schedules, 1850 – 1880. The Wisconsin Mortality Schedules collection was completed in the three months following the… Read more
We Would Love Your Feedback on a New Tool
Recently, we released the Ancestry.com World Archives Project – our new community keying tool that gives you the opportunity to help create free indexes at your leisure. We would love to hear what our members and the community thinks of the idea and of the new tool. We’re interested in feedback from people who have used the tool, as… Read more
Join Us in a Webinar on the World Archives Project, Our New Community Indexing Program
On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, at 8 pm EDT, Ancestry.com will be sponsoring a webinar on its new World Archives Project. Learn more about Ancestry.com’s new community indexing program that gives people around the world the opportunity to save historical records important to them. Register for the webinar here.
Tim Sullivan Talks About the World Archives Project with DearMYRTLE
Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan explains the new Ancestry.com World Archives Project. In this podcast, Tim discusses how the project works and the many benefits available to individuals and societies that choose to get involved. Listen to the podcast on DearMYRTLE’s website here. (The segment with Tim begins 37 minutes into the podcast.)
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