World Archives Project

Today brings us the following new projects.   New Zealand, Officiating Ministers, 1882-1920 – This is a small, typed collection giving the names of the ministers for churches throughout New Zealand.  If you have questions or feedback please post a message on the Discussion page.  New Zealand, Sheep Returns, 1887-1890 – This is another small, typed collection containing […]

I won’t admit how long it has been since the last update – you will have to look through the archives and find out.  The flip side of it being a while is seeing how many projects we have completed, those in red plus a few more. Then: Projects that are completely keyed or really […]

In the last few weeks of August 2 new databases were released and 1 more was updated.  These were smaller projects with the contributions of 1052 individuals resulting in more than 134,000 records. New: Ireland, Marriages in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, 1771-1812 Willamette Valley, Oregon, Death Records, 1838-2006 Update: California, Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950 Thank you […]

Today we have 3 projects that are new to most of us. These projects have been being keyed by a group in the UK and we are now making them available for everyone to key and review.   Surrey, England, Calendar of Prisoners, 1848-1902 – This project contains records court records of individuals on trial in Quarter […]

Today we are catching up on the slump we have had over the past few weeks.  There were a few back end issues we had to resolve before new projects could be made available in the keying tool – you would get a kick out of how excited we were when we were told we […]

Wow!  We had a great weekend.  There were 28,606 records keyed and 38,313 records reviewed – 81 contributors participated of whom 14 completed 1000+ records. The Challenge winners are: Top Keyer: Peggy S, USA Top Reviewer: Linda S, UK Weekend Warrior drawing winners: Vicki M, USA Sally M, AUS   Thank you to all who participated […]