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Featured World Archives Projects

  • Project Name Difficulty Project progress

    • Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978
      Easy
      27%
    • Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919
      Average
      58%
    • New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899
      Easy
      82%

All Active World Archives Projects

  • Project Name Difficulty Project progress

    • Cartes électorales de Paris et ses environs et d’autres villes françaises, 1900-1932 (France Electoral Cards)
      Average
      20%
    • Cheddar Rate Book 1865
      Easy
      64%
    • Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947
      Average
      13%
    • Dorset, England, Quarter Session Order Books, 1625-1951
      Advanced
      65%
    • Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978
      Easy
      27%
    • Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919
      Average
      58%
    • Lübeck, Germany, Citizenship Register, 1591-1919
      Average
      63%
    • New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899
      Easy
      82%
    • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Journal, 1885-1980
      Average
      21%
    • Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Morte, 1866-1937 (Registers of Deaths)
      Advanced
      47%
    • Tennessee, Early Land Registers
      Average
      12%
    • Tulare County, California, Sheriff's Office and Prison Records, 1874-1963
      Easy
      18%
    • U.S. Southern Claims Commission, Disallowed and Barred Claims, 1871-1880
      Advanced
      2%
    • U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1790-1930
      Average
      57%
    • USHMM - Czech Republic, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1948
      Average
      16%
    • USHMM - Krakow, Poland, Applications for ID Cards for Jews during World War II (Part 4)
      Average
      38%
    • USHMM - Odessa, Ukraine, Selected Holocaust Records from Romanian Occupation during World War II
      Average
      14%
    • USHMM – Poland, Lòdz Ghetto Register Books, 1939-1944 (Part 1)
      Average
      42%

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