World Archives Project

Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day and instead of celebrating just one day we will have a week of Challenges*. And to buck tradition, we promise – no pranks. April 1-2: Pick your project April 3-4: Featured Projects April 5-6: Projects above 50% complete April 7-8: Projects below 50% complete Happy indexing!   *Terms and Conditions: The […]

This week brings us the UK, Police Gazette, 1816-1927 project.  These records provide details for crimes and we are keying information for the officials, perpetrators, and victims.  There are some articles that include disturbing photographs of men and women who were found dead.  If you find that you are not able to complete one of these image sets […]

I recently received an email asking about something that I haven’t thought about for a while.  Do you know all of the places where you can see your overall keying statistics? Keying tool, in the lower right hand corner Online Dashboard Your Ancestry Member Profile If you are not seeing your World Archives Project statistics on […]

  Our new project is the Medway, Kent, England, Poor Law Union Records, 1837-1937.   The records are all in register format detailing the individuals who were admitted to Workhouses.  You can read more about Poor Laws and the records created as a result here.   The records are on forms that are easy to follow […]

The USHMM – Poland, Łódź Ghetto Register Books, 1939-1944 (Part 3) project is now available.  The initial Łódź Register Books project will be available on Ancestry later this month!  Register books provide details about the individuals who lived in the ghetto – the administration [Judenrat] carefully kept a register that recorded all of the ghetto’s inhabitants by street address. […]

The year is off to a great start!  We completed 65,472 image sets in January and surpassed that in February with 72,879 – split almost evenly between key and review. And keeping you up to date with our projects that are 100% keyed: Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter, 1738-1925 – 590 review image sets remaining (470 completed) […]