Ancestry World Archives Project News

Yesterday we released the Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers 1864 and the California Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950.   The Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers 1864 is a smaller project including both Enlistment lists and Muster Rolls.  Although this is a smaller project we estimate that there are close to 10,000 names – what a wonderful [...]

If you liked the Police Gazettes then you’ll want to be sure to check out a few image sets for the Government Gazettes.  The Government Gazettes cover events such as land transactions, government contract announcements, military items, including desertions, missing people notices, bankruptcy notices, will announcements, unclaimed letters…and more.  In short, it can make for [...]

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who responded as willing to participate in this project!  We have an overwhelming response and the project is now complete. We have a new project but due to the nature of the project I want to tell you a little about it before we release it for keying. The Citizenship Case [...]

Both projects, 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia and Kentucky, Tax Lists, 1800 are smaller projects that are part of our efforts to bring more accurate indexes online.   They are typed, so easy to read, and are relatively name dense.  Grab yourself a few image sets to key over the next day or so when you [...]

We’ve just released the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Tax Lists, 1819-1869 project for keying.  It is another easy project – although most of the records are handwritten they are clear and generally easy to read.  We are keying lists of individuals who were taxed in Cuyahoga (kaɪ.əˈhoʊɡə/) County over a 50 year period.  (When we released the last Cuyahoga County [...]

The Glasgow, Scotland, Crew Lists are similar to the Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919 - with crew lists for ships whose home port was registered as Glasgow, Scotland.  The records are mainly handwritten with the older records being a little more challenging to read.   If you have questions about keying, or reviewing, these records post them to the [...]

Today we released two new projects to key – Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978 and USHMM – Lodz, Poland, Vital Records of Jews in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939-1944.  The Kansas City and County Census records is one of the projects that is replacing the #2 voted for project in our Fall Record Challenge.  I am so [...]

On Wednesday we released the Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919 to be keyed, and reviewed.  This collection contains records for ships whose home port was registered as Liverpool.  There are only two forms, Ship Information, and Crew Lists that we will be entering data from – refer to the wiki page to see examples of [...]

We just released the Dutchess County, New York, Naturalization Records, 1932-1989 project to be keyed.  Since these records are mostly typed they are easy to read.  (If you need a break from some of the tough UK projects this would be a good project to work on.)  From personal experience I know how valuable naturalization records [...]

Earlier today we released Dorset, England, Quarter Session Order Books, 1625-1951.  The Quarter Session Books contain the court orders for over 300 years so you will see some variation in how the records look as you move from the 1600′s into the 1900′s.  Due to the variety of records and the older handwriting we have [...]