World Archives Project

Today brings us a handful of smaller projects. A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1759 This is a book that provides information for early immigrants to America.  It was previously “indexed” by OCR.  The records are typed and easy to follow although there is some dissecting of the data to determine which fields […]

Minims! – by Darci Crandall One thing that I super love about indexing and arbitrating is the handwriting.  I love to look at it!  There is such character in a person’s script, and there is such a wide variety of styles.  I tend to look at it like a puzzle—Handwriting can often be challenging to decipher, […]

The top keyer and reviewer for the Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847 today and tomorrow (Mar 17 & 18) will win their choice of a DNA test (see if you are Irish!) or a 3 month World subscription. Happy indexing! May the luck of the Irish be with you.

UPDATE: The servers have been updated and everything has been working well.  We will continue to test but don’t anticipate any issues. Over the next few days we will updating servers.  This will cause some down time with the keying tool.  If you have difficulties please try again – if the issue persists send us […]