Let’s Start 2015 Off With a Bang
UPDATE: All contributors who complete 2015 records during the month will be entered into a drawing for their choice of a t-shirt, water bottle or thumb drive. New contributors in the month of January who complete 100 records will be entered in a separate drawing.
In addition there will be Project of the Day Challenges*, working from our oldest projects to the newest.
Jan 4 & 5 – Cartes Electorales (keying) and Ottawa Journal (the original, review)
Jan 8 & 9 – Tennessee Early Land Registers
Jan 12 & 13 – U.S. Southern Claims Commission
Jan 16-18 – Tulare County, Sheriff’s Office and Prison Records and Surrey, England Regimental Rolls (both are review only)
Jan 20 &21 – New South Wales, Government Gazettes and Savannah, Georgia, Licenses and Bonds (Review)
Jan 24 & 25 – USHMM, Krakow, Poland ID Card Applications (Part 7) and USHMM, Odessa, Ukraine Selected Records (review only)
Jan 27 & 28 – New York and Vicinity, United Methodist Church Records
Jan 30 &31 – Pick your favorite project
We are looking forward to a wonderful start to 2015.
Happy indexing!
*Terms and Conditions: The Project of the Day Challenges (each a “Challenge”) are administered by Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 360 West 4800 North, Provo, Utah 84604, USA (“Ancestry”). The Challenges are open to contributors resident in USA, UK, Canada and Australia, aged 18 or over, except employees or agents of Ancestry or its group companies. Each Challenge begins at 00:01 MST and ends at 23:59 MST on the relevant day. A prize will be awarded to: (1) the contributor who keys the most entries, and (2) the contributor who arbitrates or reviews the most entries, during the period of the Challenge. The prizes will consist of either (i) a copy of FTM, (ii) a 3 month Ancestry membership, or (iii) a DNA test. The prizes cannot be exchanged for money. Contributors may win one prize only. The winners will be notified by e-mail after the end of each Challenge. If a prize winner cannot be contacted within two weeks of being notified, Ancestry reserves the right to award the prize to an alternate winner. Ancestry’s decision is final and binding. No cash alternatives to the prizes will be offered, and the prizes are not transferable. You agree to Ancestry making the name and state of winners available on request. For details of the winners, email worldarchivesproject@ancestry.com.
Hopefully the person that is only entering partial records for the Chicago and NW railroad records will not be considered for this challenge. If I were only entering the first and last name I could enter lots of records also.