Author Archives for afechter
Four Week Challenge
To celebrate our four year anniversary we will be having a four week challenge. Each week we will announce the “Project of the Day” challenges – some will be for keying and some for reviewing. In addition to the daily challenges there will be prizes for the overall top keyer and reviewer each week and [...]
Happy 4th Anniversary!!
On March 11, 2009 we removed the Beta tag from the keying tool so we are now officially 4 years strong. In the past four years we have accomplished many amazing things… – Keyed 99,500,000+ records (We’re almost to 100,000,000 records keyed!!) – Completed 192 projects – 161 Live projects on Ancestry available for anyone [...]
World Memory Project – Student Program
This past fall the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry launched a program for students in the U.S. to participate in keying records as part of their experience in learning about the Holocaust. The USHMM education staff have reached out to schools and we currently have 3 schools participating in the program. Having two [...]
This week’s new project is…
The Minnesota, Spanish American War Muster Rolls and Casualty Lists is a small project that is exactly what the title states - Muster Rolls and Casualty Lists for soldiers from Minnesota. It is rated as Average due to the variety of handwriting and the variance in records but for an experienced keyer it will seem fairly [...]
What do Poor Law Unions and Quaker College Registers have in common?
Our two new projects don’t have a lot in common other than they are both considered “Average” difficulty and we have completed projects similar to each in the past, and they are both now available to index! The London, England, Selected Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records, 1828-1930 project is exactly the same as the London, England, Poor [...]
What projects are high priority?
We receive emails and see message board posts with this question on a regular basis. This is a tough one to answer for this main reason – if you have chosen to participate you have the ultimate say regarding what projects you will contribute to. Are there projects that we will hope to draw your [...]
Defendants + Plaintiffs + Prison records = Fun records to key
The new project today is the Tulare County, California, Sheriff’s Office and Prison Records, 1874-1963. There are a wide variety of records in the collection resulting in 6 form types to choose from – minus the Cover page and Image with no data. This project is categorized as easy,despite the variety of records and sometimes challenging [...]
New Project!
Our new project this week is the Eton School Lists 1791-1850, a book listing the names of the attendees of Eton School during that 59 year period. It is an easy project, typed and very few fields to key, and small so I anticipate they will be gone before the weekend. If you have questions please [...]
Return of the New York Naturalization Originals
Today we released the New York, Naturalization Records, 1897-1944, Part 2 project. As we reviewed the records in the original project we found many records that were missclassified – having keyed many of these image sets I know that it could be difficult to determine whether we were to key a record or not. We have [...]
New Projects!
Update: I was so excited to get the images posted that I forgot the links for asking questions. They are now inserted below. Today we have three new projects for you to start keying… The U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1790-1930 contain marriage and death extracts, mostly from the 1800′s, that were published in newspapers in Massachusetts, New [...]
