Ancestry World Archives Project News

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]

First, congratulations to Peggy S, from Washington for keying the most records over the weekend (8000+) and Ann C, from Texas for completing the most review image sets (500+).  Since Ann has already won a challenge, the runner up is Pat R from Florida. Over the past few weeks we have focused on twelve different [...]

Update: Due to technical issues the new project will not be published until Monday. The U.S., Military Registers, Marines collection.  This collection is part one of a few similar projects all containing Military Registers for the various branches of the military, published between the years 1902 and 1985.  It is all typed but due to [...]

We published 15 projects Live on Ancestry – this accounts for 3.55 million more records to search! In order of their release dates: Alabama, Marriages, Deaths, Wills, Court, and Other Records, 1784-1920 U.S., Buffalo Soldiers, Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1866-1916 Florida, Spanish American War Compiled Service Records, 1898  Glasgow, Scotland, Crew Lists, 1863 [...]

Our challenge 7 project, today and tomorrow, is the New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899.  These records are an interesting mix of government related articles – land sales, criminal notices, military records, missing persons, probate records, and more.  Because of the mixture of records it makes for interesting reading. Items to remember: – We are keying [...]

Over the past few challenges we have keyed, reviewed and arbitrated just a few records.  I am constantly awed by the passion shown by our community. And the winners are: Challenge 4, Delaware Land Records  and Eure-et-Loir, France, Selected Holocaust Records: Keyer: Sam L, Pennsylvania Reviewer: Connie R, California Arbitrator: Wendy D, Ontario Honorable mention to Barbara [...]

When we audit the data that has been submitted we sometimes find a few records that weren’t keyed correctly but generally there aren’t many.  Every once in a while we find that there is a field that isn’t a few fields that hadn’t been keyed according to instructions – or our interpretation of the instructions.  [...]