World Archives Project

This week is Holocaust remembrance week, or the Days of Remembrance.  It also marks our 3rd Anniversary of the World Memory Project.  We have accomplished a lot over the past 3 years! 3100+ contributors have contributed 2.44+ million records We’ve completed 23 projects adding 15 new databases on Ancestry To celebrate this week we will highlight each […]

We have two new projects today – York, Yorkshire, England, St. Michael le Belfrey Parish Register, 1565-1653 and Caernarfonshire, Wales, Lleyn and Eifionydd Church Registers and Gravestone Inscriptions.   Both projects are small UK collections with fewer than 200 image sets. York, Yorkshire, England, St. Michael le Belfrey Parish Register, 1565-1653 contains Parish records with a variety of […]

It has been a while since our last update so I am starting fresh. Projects that are 100% keyed or really close: California, Spanish Archive Records – 172 review image sets remaining Savannah, Georgia, Select Board of Health and Health Department Records, 1822-1864, 1887-1896 – 249 review image sets remaining USHMM – Czech Republic, Social Welfare […]

We took the Beta tag off the keying tool March 14, 2009 – after a year or so of development we were finally “Live”.  I was so excited to see the many hours of time spent by developers, contributors in testing and our operations team come to full fruition.  Now 5 years later I am […]