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And the new project is… Minnesota, State School and Hospital Records
The Minnesota, State School and Hospital Records are records from various Minnesota State Hospitals. Most of the records you encounter will have one individual per page and many will include rich details from the lives of the individuals. It is easy to get caught up in reading over the records. If you have questions that [...]
New Project – U.S. Southern Claims Commission, Disallowed and Barred Claims, 1871-1880
Our next project is a little different than the typical projects we have been indexing. The U.S. Southern Claims Commission, Disallowed and Barred Claims, 1871-1880, is comprised of case files with claims submitted by Union sympathizers who lived in the South during the Civil War for reimbursements of property lost due to Army confiscations. The claims you [...]
New Project from the UK
Our new project this week is the North Nottinghamshire Register of Voters 1885. This is a small project that is lists of type written names of voters living in Nottingham, UK during the year 1885. Happy keying!
It’s Friday and time for a new project!
Yes, typically new projects come on Wednesday but we were waiting on some translations and I didn’t want to wait until next week so here it is – USHMM – Poland, Lòdz Ghetto Register Books, 1939-1944 (Part 1). This project is close to being the easiest USHMM project we have released and it is just [...]
Pavia Projects
Our oldest projects, Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Morte, 1866-1937 and Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Matrimonio, 1866-1937, have been around for almost 4 years and are some of our slowest moving projects, with projected completion dates of 2643 and 2713. For these reasons, length of time they have been available (they were set up in a [...]
New Project – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Journal, 1885-1980
Today we released the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Journal, 1885-1980 collection. This project is a collection of newspaper pages containing vital events. There are 30 fields, so depending on the event there may or may not be information to enter for many of them. (In cases where there are fields that are not applicable to the event type just [...]
New Projects are coming your way…
Today we have two more Rhode Island vital record projects, Rhode Island, Vital Extracts County Records, 1636-1850 and Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, Newspaper, 1636-1850. These are similar to the Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, Church Records, 1636-1850 (all three projects come from the same collection) that we released last week – reviewing the Discussion page for this project will help in [...]
The second week of December brings us two new projects!
Today we released Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, Church Records, 1636-1850 and New York, New York, Quarterly Abstracts of Seamen’s Protection Certificates, 1815-1869. The Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, Church Records, 1636-1850 are a collection of vital records, for Rhode Island, taken from records kept by the churches. They include birth, marriage, death, and other records. We are [...]
New Project – Tennessee, Early Land Registers
The Tennessee, Early Land Registers are reminiscent of the Delaware, Land Records but I think they are a little easier – you can decide for yourselves. The records are handwritten and you may find that the images have some heavy shadowing in between the pages. If you are unsure of a letter try using the wildcards to [...]
Who was General James Wilkinson?
General Wilkinson was an interesting man – I have lost myself for just a few minutes this morning reading about his life. Our new project this week is the U.S., General James Wilkinson’s Order Book, 1796-1808. In 1796, upon the death of General Wayne, President Washington promoted Wilkinson to Major General of the Legion Army – [...]
