New projects all around…


Yesterday we released the New Mexico Territorial Census, 1885 to be keyed.  (This collection came second in voting for the World Record Challenge.)  This project is rated as average mainly due to the quality of the images – although many of the images are pretty clear there are some that are darker and you’ll want to use the Image Options to adjust the image so you can see it more clearly.  As a little background, entire household censuses were taken in 1885 in Florida, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico and Dakota Territories.  Read more about this project and instructions on how to key it here.

And late last week we launched an update to the U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 database that included the following states keyed by you: Southern California, Northern California, NYC, Pennsylvania, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, Connecticut, Washington and Montana.  These projects represent almost 3 million new records to search and I have already heard from many people who have found their relatives in this database.  Congratulations!

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Written by:
Gretchen Armato
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 10:32 am

Wow! New Mexico must have been very small. There’s not one set left on Thursday morning! (9-9)

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Marion Auffret
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 11:48 am

I think I blinked and missed it!

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Written by:
afechter
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 1:01 pm

Gretchen, Marion,
I still see 1900+ image sets. Are you looking at the Arbitration queue? (I know I have done that before! :))

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Written by:
dawn
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 1:05 pm

I can,t see any of this new mexico census either shame cause I really enjoy doing census returns

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Joni
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 1:13 pm

They aren’t showing up for me, either! I checked both the keying list and the arbitration list.

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John
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 1:42 pm

Same here! Their Gone.

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Marion Auffret
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 2:01 pm

Sorry Anna, they are still not there, either on keying or arbitration.

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Written by:
Marie Bolton
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 3:01 pm

The New Mexico Census is not showing up on my keying tool either.

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Written by:
wiedwoman
Posted on:
September 9, 2010 at 3:13 pm

The are showing now.

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Written by:
Gretchen Armato
Posted on:
September 10, 2010 at 12:42 am

Yeah they’re here but boy are they messed up. I’ve just started my first image. Surnames are turning red even when the name is in the dictionary. Ages and gender are turning red. Places of birth are turning red even when they are in the dictionary. Maybe this needs another looking-at?

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Written by:
Judy Smith
Posted on:
September 14, 2010 at 5:05 pm

Finally got a set to arbitrate, and it was names only (no header). What’s up with that? I couldn’t find a way to add a space for the correction. Also, whenever I corrected “W” to read “B” in the race column, the “B” turned red:(

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Written by:
Lucille Mirata
Posted on:
September 17, 2010 at 11:58 am

I started one of the New Mexico Census forms, but I’m finding it very difficult. The downloaded page keeps moving every time I move from column to column. I get it set just right for reading and the next thing I know, I have to re-adjust the downloaded page. Does anyone know how to stop it from moving?

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Patricia Murphy Heisler
Posted on:
September 17, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Type your comment here.

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Walter E. Henry
Posted on:
September 19, 2010 at 7:40 am

unable to get census & voter info at times or turn on any other info.

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Walter E. Henry
Posted on:
September 19, 2010 at 8:06 am

I,m on the 14 day free trial. When iI try to get immigration info, I keep getting a notice to sign up to the 14 day free trial.