Projects Update
Wow! This is long overdue.
In 2016 we indexed 405,134 image sets for a total of 15,234,403 records contributed. Since the beginning of the year we have indexed 80,180 image sets for a total of 3,882,024 records contributed. We completed 43 project and 57 projects were launched live on Ancestry. What a great effort!
Projects that are over a year old:
Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847, 14,278 review image sets remaining
U.S. Southern Claims Commission, Disallowed and Barred Claims, 1871-1880, 3372 keying and 16,046 review image sets remaining
USHMM – Poland, Jewish Holocaust Survivors Registered in Warsaw, 1945-1946, 3634 keying image sets remaining
USHMM – Romania, Selected Holocaust Records, 1940-1945, 432 keying image sets remaining
New Databases Online (will all be added to the Live page soon):
A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692, 1718-1759
Arizona, Prison Records, 1875-1929
Arizona, School Census Records, 1910-1917
Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1841-2001
Beddington, Surrey, England, Royal Female Orphanage List of Children, 1890-1913
Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925
Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775
Czechoslovakia, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1938-1945 (USHMM)
Dorset, England, Bastardy Records, 1725-1853
Dorset, England, Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898
Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Ireland, Police Gazettes, 1861-1893
Johns’s Notable Australians, 1906
Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961
Kraków, Poland, ID Card Applications for Jews During WWII, 1940-1941 (USHMM)
Kraków, Poland, Jewish Inhabitants Registration Forms, 1940 (USHMM)
Medway, Kent, England, Poor Law Union Records, 1836-1937
New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899
New South Wales, Australia, Land Records, 1811-1870
New South Wales, Australia, Sheriff’s Papers, 1841-1850
New York and Vicinity, United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949
New Zealand, The New Zealand Gazette, 1860-1894
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Honeymoon and Visitor Registers, 1949-2011
Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Journal (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1885-1980
Pennsylvania, County Slave Records 1780-1834
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Runaway Servants, Convicts, and Apprentices, 1728-1796
Poland, Łódź Ghetto Register Books, 1939-1944 (USHMM)
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Selected Holocaust Records, 1939-1945 (USHMM)
Savannah, Georgia, Licenses and Bonds, 1837-1909
Scotland, Nursing Applications, 1921-1945
Somerset, England, Gaol Registers, 1807-1879
Somerset, England, School Registers, 1860-1914
South Australia, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1853
South Australia, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1862-1947
Spanish West Florida, Archives of the Spanish Government, 1782-1816
Tasmania, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1884-1933
U.S., German Immigrants, 1712-1933
Victoria, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1855, 1864-1924
West Yorkshire, Roman Catholic Oath Records, 1714-1787, 1829
Yorkshire, England, Quarter Session Records, 1637-1914
These databases represent a total of more than 12.6 million records and millions more names. Thank you to all who contributed to these projects and all who continue to contribute!
Looking forward to some interesting projects coming soon (even if same are Kansas City- is there a record of just how many Kansas City records have been recorded- past,present and future? I’ve enjoyed working on them and strangely, have not seen many duplicates.
I have enjoyed being a part of many of these projects. It is enjoyable and entertaining