Project Update
In March we posted a message about which projects were high priority, in June we posted a follow up to that message, and here is the latest update.
Projects that have been available for over a year:
- Cartes électorales de Paris et ses environs et d’autres villes françaises, 1900-1932 (France Electoral Cards) (Now: 23.3% Then: 20.98% – 6756 image sets)
- Dorset, England, Quarter Session Order Books, 1625-1951 (Now: 65.51% Then: 65.05% – 27 image sets)
- Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978 (Now: 32.1% Then: 27.9% – 10,450 image sets)
- Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919 (Now: 64.1% Then: 58.4% – 12,198 image sets)
- USHMM – Czech Republic, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1948 (Now: 17.1% Then: 15.9% – 225 image sets)
- USHMM – Odessa, Ukraine, Selected Holocaust Records from Romanian Occupation during World War II (Now: 15.5% Then: 14.1% – 657 image sets)
The following projects are 90%, or more, keyed.
- Dorset, England, Quarter Session Order Books, 1625-1951 (93.7% keyed, 2697 image sets remaining)
- Hart’s Annual Army List 1908 (99.45% keyed, 120 image sets remaining)
- London, England, Selected Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records, 1828-1930 (99.97% keyed, 2227 image sets remaining)
- New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899 (96.6% keyed, 1473 image sets remaining)
- Texas, Convict Ledgers and Conduct Registries, 1849-1970 (100% keyed, 1693 image sets remaining)
- U.S., Military Registers, Army (Part 1) (99% keyed, 3590 image sets remaining)
- U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1790-1930 (100% keyed, 5313 image sets remaining)
- USHMM – Poland, Lòdz Ghetto Register Books, 1939-1944 (Part 1) (100% keyed, 1251 image sets remaining)
- West Riding, England, Wakefield Charities Coroners Notebooks, 1852-1900 (99.6% keyed, 4864 image sets remaining)
- West Yorkshire, England, School Records, 1855-1914 (99% keyed, 1578 image sets remaining)
In the last 3 months we have completed 15 projects and there are now 13 more projects, and 3.4+ million more records published on Ancestry!
It is amazing to see all that is being contributed through the World Archives Project. Each record keyed and reviewed makes a difference. Thank you for all that you contribute!!
I have been slowly reviewing the Lodz register books and would love help to get this finished.
Patricia