Ancestry World Archives Project News

Yes, for many of you I am a few hours behind.  This morning part of my family will be working to prepare dinner for the rest of us and a few others will be running in the local Turkey Trot.  So I have to admit that I won’t be reviewing any image sets until the football fest [...]

Last week we released another project Live to Ancestry,  Pennsylvania, U.S. Naturalization Originals, 1795-1930.  This is the fourth Naturalization Originals database that is now available to search because of your contributions!  In looking for our immigrant ancestors the Naturalization collections can provide a wealth of information – I know I am waiting for when the New York [...]

Monday, September 26th It’s the last week of September. (I’m really not sure how that happened. Where did the month go?) There’s are a lot of things happening around here lately. Lots of projects being keyed and reviewed. New contributors joining our community. Anna is holding small training sessions where you can get personal assistance [...]

It’s a big week for the World Memory Project and the for the Ancestry World Archives Project community.  We published three new projects to key.  We released a new project to search.  And, we are getting ready for a busy week at the IAJGS conference in Washington D.C.  Keep reading for all of the latest [...]

Every other month we send out the Ancestry World Archives Project Newsletter. It is typically sent out the last week of the month. The July edition was sent out a couple of days ago via email. Did you get it? If you didn’t get this month’s newsletter, here are links to two of the articles that [...]

If you have joined our community within the last year you may not know about Virtual Keying Parties. But, it’s about time for another one. This coming Tuesday – May 3rd – will be the biggest virtual keying party we have ever held. We invite you to open up your keying tool this Tuesday and [...]

It’s been a busy few weeks around here. I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week at the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City.  Amazing things are happening in the genealogy industry.  It’s exciting to be a part of it all.  And, I love working in the Ancestry.com booth.  With over 3,000 people in [...]

We’ve made a few changes to the Dashboard, and a few more changes are on their way.  The most drastic change is going from an accuracy percentage to an accuracy bar.  I know it is important to know how you are doing but I also know that every contribution counts, regardless of if you were [...]

Earlier this month five additional projects were added to the Live database collection for your searching pleasure, Australia Historical Postcards, Fife, Scotland, Voters Lists, 1832-1894, U.S. Naturalization Originals – MD and VA, 1906-1930, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, Indexed Marriage Records, 1896-1929 and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, Indexed Death Records, 1896-1936.  Combined these projects bring close to 200,000 names [...]

I have mentioned in passing a few times my desire for a wiki that we could use for our Project Pages and help articles and my wishes are finally being granted!  Over the next few days we will be implementing the beta version of our wiki  so instead of being led to the project pages you will soon [...]