World Archives Project

Yes, there is a Part 5.  Did we complete part 4?   No – to my knowledge there isn’t a part 4. For those who have not worked on one of the previous Government Gazette projects these are weekly publications that include all sorts of government notices – criminal, land, military, Acts of Parliament, … […]

We have another new USHMM project, USHMM – Ukraine, Jewish Community of Kolomyia, 1939-1945 .  These are lists of people who paid membership fees from 1932 to 1939 in the Jewish community of Kolomyia.  These records are typically handwritten but on printed forms.  They are in Polish and there are only 270 image sets.  (I find the names easy to […]

Today we published a new indexing project – USHMM – Children in the Lodz Ghetto. This is a small collection containing registers of teachers and students in the Lodz Ghetto.  The handwriting can be difficult but the forms are easy to follow. Happy indexing!

Today we released the Alabama, Surname Files Expanded, 1901–2005 project for indexing.  This project is an extension of the Alabama, Surname Files, 1901–2005 project so the content types and instructions are the same – just different images and records.  The majority of the records being indexed are from newspaper clippings but there are also family charts, forms, […]

The Massachusetts, Vital Records, 1700 – 1850 (Part 2) contains births, marriages and deaths from the 1700’s through the 1850’s.  The instructions and project scope is identical to the Massachusetts Vital Part 1.  You can find community discussion and feedback on the discussion board for Part 1 for additional guidance. The records are in alphabetical order which […]

The Poland, Łódź Ghetto Register Books is part Part 7 of this series.  These records are in German.  This project is part of the World Memory Project.    Due to the sensitive nature of the USHMM images there are no image samples with callouts on the project page.  Please use the discussion page for additional community support. You […]

This project is school admission and withdrawal forms from Fife, Scotland, between the year of 1864 and 1914.  A record is any child’s name on a Register or withdrawal form.  Most of the records have the parent or guardian name listed.  We are also capturing a Title Page which has the school name and year or […]

This project is from three different newspapers in Australia and ever image of the Australia Newspaper Vital Notices of 1851 – 1991  has a Birth, Marriage or Death notice.  The images were classified as “record” before making this available to you so you should be able to find at least one interesting vital notice on […]

Today’s project, Fife, Scotland, Criminal Registers, 1910-1931   is a fun set of records.  In this project a record is every name that has a vital date available.  The variation in the registers makes it difficult to find each field however, the details in these records are interesting to look through. If you have any questions or […]

 This project is full of Registers and Photographs of soldiers who fought in the Boer War and World War One. We are indexing lots of rich information but most of the records only have rank, regiment and residence city.  Please capture as much detail when available.  All military personnel under photographs or within a list of events […]