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Featured World Archives Projects
  • Project Name Difficulty Project progress

    • Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1872-1914
      Easy
      94%
    • Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978
      Easy
      7%
    • Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919
      Average
      20%
    • USHMM - Eure-et-Loir, France, Selected Holocaust Records
      Average
      70%
All Active World Archives Projects
  • Project Name Difficulty Project progress

    • Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1872-1914
      Easy
      94%
    • Cartes électorales de Paris et ses environs et d’autres villes françaises, 1900-1932 (France Electoral Cards)
      Average
      11%
    • Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Tax Lists, 1819-1869
      Easy
      37%
    • Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947
      Average
      5%
    • Dorset, England, Quarter Session Order Books, 1625-1951
      Advanced
      31%
    • Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978
      Easy
      7%
    • Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919
      Average
      20%
    • London, England, Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records
      Advanced
      64%
    • Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Matrimonio, 1866-1937 (Registers of Marriage)
      Advanced
      17%
    • Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Morte, 1866-1937 (Registers of Deaths)
      Advanced
      40%
    • Tennessee, Early Tax List Records
      Average
      17%
    • USHMM - Czech Republic, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1939-1941
      Advanced
      49%
    • USHMM - Czech Republic, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1948
      Average
      0%
    • USHMM - Eure-et-Loir, France, Selected Holocaust Records
      Average
      70%
    • USHMM - Odessa, Ukraine, Selected Holocaust Records from Romanian Occupation during World War II
      Average
      7%
    • USHMM - Romania, Family Questionnaires for Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Victims, 1945
      Average
      100%
    • USHMM Lodz, Poland, Vital Records of Jews in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939-1944
      Average
      14%
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