Genealogical Projects
Planned, new, or Continuing List
Maintained by the IIGS™ Projects Registry Team
The Projects Register describes genealogical projects being carried out around the world. These are projects that may still be in the planning stage, while most of them are in progress. Some others, apparently completed, require continuous input of new information to complete their final objective. To be added to the Projects Register a project must be one that will provide free access to the data, searchable via the Internet. It must also be of interest to a significant part of the genealogical community. Therefore surname lists and family histories, while important, are limited and not included.
The Projects Register has several purposes. One of these is to serve as a means of letting the genealogical community know what is being done to make more data freely available via the Internet. The other is to make the genealogical community aware of the needs of these projects, particularly acting as a way to connect those projects which would can use hands-on help with those volunteers who would like to offer their services. The Projects Register describes each project, where to go for more information, how to make contact, what is needed by the project, and what what skills, if any, are required.
We would like to remind you that it is the responsibility of the project applicant or project manager to ensure that copyright and trademark requirements are met. IIGS™ urges all applicants and managers to understand these requirements and see that they are met.
If you would like to register your project, please go to Application for Project Registration. If more information on your project is required, we will contact you.
If you have an idea for a project that will provide free access and be searchable via the Internet, then IIGS™ may be able to help you. See our main page to see what the society does and please join us.
Let us know how you are getting along on your project.
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International
| Project Name | Ancestor Gravesite Project |
| URL for more information | http://www.piedmontsoftware.com/graves/ |
| Contact | Sandy L. Landrum-Kelly sandykelly@fastlanta.com |
| Submitter | Sandy L. Landrum-Kelly sandykelly@fastlanta.com |
| Project Description | This site contains a large database of gravesite photos that are submitted by researchers worldwide. Visitors are able to search for a gravesite by surname, state, country, or region. Our goal is to possibly help researchers find a long-lost ancestor's gravesite with the help of others researchers who submit their photos. With an overwhelming number of photos submitted, the web site is currently being redesigned to accommodate the large volume of photos and information. However, visitors will still be able to access the database while the changes are being made. This is an on-going project |
| Volunteer skills | When submitting photos, please
include the surname of the person, the name of the cemetery, city/town, state, country or region of the world, as well as the gravestone inscription. Photos should be under 1 meg in size, with format of .jpg, .bmp,. tif, or .gif. |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | IIGS™ BDM Index |
| URL for more information | http://www.iigs.org/global_village/bdm/index.htm |
| Contact | Paula Wiegand pwiegand@erols.com |
| Submitter | Paula Wiegand pwiegand@erols.com |
| Project Description | The aim of sites in various countries is to provide a free resource to genealogists who wish to share information about details contained in birth, death or marriage certificates. The Global Village, acting as a central indexing site, continues to add new exchanges for unrepresented countries |
| Volunteer skills | Hosts are needed for unrepresented countries. Volunteers must have html skills and must have their own web space |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | IIGS™ Library Team |
| URL for more information | http://www.iigs.org/library/index.htm.en |
| Contact | Brian Fisk bfisk@dircon.co.uk or
Norma Jennings njennings@lisco.net |
| Submitter | John Porter jporter@roadrunner.com |
| Project Description | The cataloguing and indexing of resources on the Internet. The catalogues and indexes will be published on the Internet to facilitate genealogical researches |
| Volunteer skills | There are vacancies for page maintainers in both the U.S. and non U.S. areas |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | IIGS™ Translation Team |
| URL for more information | http://www.iigs.org/translators/index.htm |
| Contact | Jan Daamen j.daamen@wxs.nl |
| Submitter | Jan Daamen j.daamen@wxs.nl |
| Project Description | Volunteers translate the IIGS™ webpages into various languages to reach as many people in the international genealogical community as possible |
| Volunteer skills | Translation skills to actively do translations or help with proofreading finished translations |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | IIGS™ University Site Locator Volunteers |
| URL for more information | http://www.iigs.org/university/index.htm.en |
| Contact | Barbara Farris
tfarris268@aol.com |
| Submitter | Cynthia Parker cindyparker@FTC-I.NET |
| Project Description | Site Locators. Browsing the Internet in search of lesson materials, contacting authors to coordinate linking of sites to IIGS™ University |
| Volunteer skills | Time requirements depend on the individual volunteers schedule |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Source Documents Online |
| URL for more information | http://members.xoom.com/srcdocsol/faq.htm |
| Contact | Brandy M. Miller brandymiller@usa.net |
| Submitter | Brandy M. Miller brandymiller@usa.net |
| Project Description | I am starting a project to put images of genuine source documents, not transcriptions, online and available for viewing |
| Volunteer skills | I need people to donate their documents via email or regular mail |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | African Genealogical Project, AfricaGenWeb (a part of the WorldGenWeb Project) |
| URL for more information | http://www.rootsweb.com/~africagw/ |
| Contact | Lanre Bombata LBombata@bhi-netcentre.co.uk |
| Submitter | Lanre Bombata LBombata@bhi-netcentre.co.uk |
| Project Description | Obtaining volunteers who are interested in contributing to African Genealogy by acting as hosts to co-ordinate one of the African Countries Genealogical sites |
| Volunteer skills | It is recommended that volunteers know HTML or how to use a web editor and how to ftp to the Internet. You do not have to be fluent in the language of the country to host it. |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | German Settlers in Bethania, Queensland, Australia |
| URL for more information | http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbusnach/greig/index.htm |
| Contact | Russell Greig RGreig@sma.gov.au |
| Submitter | Wouter Busnach wbusnach@xs4all.nl |
| Project Description | Roots of the German Settlers in Bethania, Qeensland, Australia. The project vision is to provide a record of the lives of the early Bethanian Settlers and to extend the record so that later generations can trace their origins. The List of Pioneers of Bethania and their descendants will be based primarily, but not exclusively, on the record of the Parish of Bethania and the churches of the Logan District. |
| Volunteer skills | Not available |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | Index of all ancient localities in Belgium |
| URL for more information | http://www.geneabel.com |
| Contact | Michel Colin michel.colin@OldFogey.vip.lu |
| Submitter | Michel Colin michel.colin@OldFogey.vip.lu |
| Project Description | Help researchers to find ancient places, localities and municipalities in Belgium, thru a publicly accessible Database in four languages.
The classification for the whole Belgium is distributed by Regions, Provinces, Districts and Municipalities.
The Database is searchable by names and also by clicking on maps: Belgium, provinces, districts and municipalities.
The publicly accessible database is enriched by the submitter and any volunteer contributor. |
| Volunteer skills | One of the native languages used in various Belgium's regions and communities: Netherlands, French and German |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | Canadian Census Information Availability |
| URL for more information | http://www.rootsweb.com/~canon/census11.html |
| Contact | Not available |
| Submitter | Deborah Cerasia cerasiad@vianet.on.ca |
| Project Description | Campaign against closure of Canadian census records starting with the 1911 census |
| Volunteer skills | Letters of support |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Hemmingford, Quebec Cemetery Records |
| URL for more information | http://web.securenet.net/members/markd/cemetery.htm |
| Contact | Dan Mark dmark@securenet.net |
| Submitter | Dan Mark dmark@securenet.net |
| Project Description | Hemmingford, Quebec cemetery records now online. Over 6,000 records from 20 area cemeteries may be searched or browsed. |
| Volunteer skills | None required at present. Project is virtually complete. More records may be collected and added at a later date |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | Historic Plaques of Ontario |
| URL for more information | http://www.waynecook.com |
| Contact | Wayne Cook wtcook@idirect.com |
| Submitter | Wayne Cook wtcook@idirect.com |
| Project Description | Transcribing Historic Plaques of Ontario whether they are Federal, Provincial or County plaques, plus any other plaques of historical nature. These plaques provide considerable genealogical information regarding individuals, their dates, and events pertaining to them.
150 plaques are on-line with plans to expand beyond Ontario.
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| Volunteer skills | Recording and transcription of the information from the plaques. A video camera saves time |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Ecuador GenWeb Project |
| URL for more information | http://www.ecuatoriana.org/ |
| Contact | Oscar Cedeno oscar@wiw.com |
| Submitter | Oscar Cedeno ecugenweb@ecuatoriana.org |
| Project Description | Ecuador GenWeb is a non- profit organization, devoted to creating and maintaining this geneological web-site.
This project was created in an effort to help researchers in the Ecuadorian Genealogy.
The Project to date contains 446 surnames covering 2,078 persons. Each surname has genealogical information which may pertain to several levels of each family. |
| Volunteer skills | Translation Spanish English and viceversa. Computer programing, Internet hosting, configuration, and web page creations. |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Location identification of former German Territories east of the Oder-Neisse |
| URL for more information | Not available |
| Contact | Uwe Krickhahn ukrickha@memlane.com |
| Submitter | Uwe Krickhahn ukrickha@memlane.com |
| Project Description | The plotting of all points east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers, with the German name and where available the Polish, Lithuanian or Russian equivalent. Only territories that formerly belonged to Germany, East and West Prussia, Memeland, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, and East Brandenburg are included. Global positions in degrees and minutes are given along with the angle and distance to the next larger town, and from the larger town to the searched town. Kreis/county, provinz/province, some parishes or dioceses are also given. Currently the database has 34,600 references such as hamlets, villages, towns, and cities. Until a site can be obtained to make the database searchable, searches for locations will be made if requests are e-mailed to the above address. The e-mail of the searcher is added to the searched town. Completion is scheduled for December, 1999. |
| Volunteer skills | Fluent in English, German. Some Russian and Polish. Read old German script and good at map reading. The database is capable of partword searches, important because of hard to read documents and/or faulty verbal transmission |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | County Mayo, Ireland GenWeb |
| URL for more information | http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4031/mayo.html |
| Contact | Loretta Garvey Bernard, site coordinator. lgb@ix.netcom.com |
| Submitter | Not available |
| Project Description | Act as lookup volunteer of Mayo Co. data |
| Volunteer skills | Contact if you have a County Mayo source and are willing
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| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Griffith's General Valuation of Belmullet, County Mayo, (1855) |
| URL for more information | http://village.vossnet.co.uk/e/early/hnote5.html |
| Contact | Bernard Early early@vossnet.co.uk |
| Submitter | Bernard Early early@vossnet.co.uk |
| Project Description | Griffith's General Valuation of Belmullet - transcript listing townlands (with Ordnance Survey map reference, and page number in original) and names of tenants of rated buildings in the Barony of Erris, Civil Parishes of
Kilcommon and Kilmore. This is based on the 'General Valuation of Rateable Properties in Ireland, Valuation of the Several Tenements in the Union of Belmullet' by Richard Griffith (Dublin, 1855) |
| Volunteer skills | not available |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | IreAtlas Project. Town/Townland Index |
| URL for more information | http://www.thecore.com/cgi-bin/ire-srch |
| Contact | Sean Ruad seanruad@world.std.com |
| Submitter | John Porter jporter@roadrunner.com |
| Project Description | Phase II, Part 1, database of place names of Town/Townlands of Ireland, now has 60,000 placenames entered, with about 4,000 to go when the entire index will be posted on its web site. Then the project will begin adding other
sections already started (Older Placenames, Churches, Graveyards, and cross reference of civil parishes to Roman Catholic parishes). |
| Volunteer skills | Transcribing of Townland Alphabetical Index for on-line
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| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | The Leitrim-Roscommon Griffiths Database (Ireland) |
| URL for more information | http://www.thecore.com/let_ros/GRIFFITH/ |
| Contact | Ed Finn efinn@thecore.com |
| Submitter | John Porter jporter@roadrunner.com |
| Project Description | Transcribing Griffiths Valuation for all of Leitrim and
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| Volunteer skills | Transcription needed. Excel templates as input forms and
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| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Matheson's Birth Indices 1890 |
| URL for more information | http://village.vossnet.co.uk/e/early/nam.html |
| Contact | Bernard Early early@vossnet.co.uk |
| Submitter | Bernard Early early@vossnet.co.uk |
| Project Description | Irish Surnames 1850-1890 - based on Matheson's Birth Indices (1890); incorporating Griffith's Primary Valuation of Mayo and General Valuation of Belmullet (1855); various maps of 11th to 16th century; and illustrations from a
number of scrolls and armorials. |
| Volunteer skills | not available |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | Location identification of former German Territories east of the Oder-Neisse |
| URL for more information | Not available |
| Contact | Uwe Krickhahn ukrickha@memlane.com |
| Submitter | Uwe Krickhahn ukrickha@memlane.com |
| Project Description | The plotting of all points east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers, with the German name and where available the Polish, Lithuanian or Russian equivalent. Only territories that formerly belonged to Germany, East and West Prussia, Memeland, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, and East Brandenburg are included. Global positions in degrees and minutes are given along with the angle and distance to the next larger town, and from the larger town to the searched town. Kreis/county, provinz/province, some parishes or dioceses are also given. Currently the database has 34,600 references such as hamlets, villages, towns, and cities. Until a site can be obtained to make the database searchable, searches for locations will be made if requests are e-mailed to the above address. The e-mail of the searcher is added to the searched town. Completion is scheduled for December, 1999. |
| Volunteer skills | Fluent in English, German. Some Russian and Polish. Read old German script and good at map reading. The database is capable of partword searches, important because of hard to read documents and/or faulty verbal transmission |
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| Project Name | Location identification of former German Territories east of the Oder-Neisse |
| URL for more information | Not available |
| Contact | Uwe Krickhahn ukrickha@memlane.com |
| Submitter | Uwe Krickhahn ukrickha@memlane.com |
| Project Description | The plotting of all points east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers, with the German name and where available the Polish, Lithuanian or Russian equivalent. Only territories that formerly belonged to Germany, East and West Prussia, Memeland, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, and East Brandenburg are included. Global positions in degrees and minutes are given along with the angle and distance to the next larger town, and from the larger town to the searched town. Kreis/county, provinz/province, some parishes or dioceses are also given. Currently the database has 34,600 references such as hamlets, villages, towns, and cities. Until a site can be obtained to make the database searchable, searches for locations will be made if requests are e-mailed to the above address. The e-mail of the searcher is added to the searched town. Completion is scheduled for December, 1999. |
| Volunteer skills | Fluent in English, German. Some Russian and Polish. Read old German script and good at map reading. The database is capable of partword searches, important because of hard to read documents and/or faulty verbal transmission |
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| Project Name | Portuguese Genealogist Master List |
| URL for more information | http://www.dholmes.com/help.html |
| Contact | Doug da Rocha Holmes rocha@dholmes.com |
| Submitter | John Porter jporter@roadrunner.com |
| Project Description | Automate the updating of the master lists of
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| Volunteer skills | Programming skills and knowledge of such as CGI , Java script. |
| Status | Planned |
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| Project Name | Portuguese Passenger Master List |
| URL for more information | http://www.dholmes.com/ships.html |
| Contact | Doug da Rocha Holmes rocha@dholmes.com |
| Submitter | Barbara A. Brown babrown@fast.net |
| Project Description | To transcribe and assemble data on passenger lists of ships from Portugal. The transcriptions can be created using many applications |
| Volunteer skills | Transcribing passenger lists. Particularly wanted are passenger lists for transcribing |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | All Russia Family Tree |
| URL for more information | http://www.people.adicom.ru |
| Contact | Sergey Kotelnikov kiwi@cityline.ru |
| Submitter | Ludmilla Birukoff people@adicom.ru |
| Project Description | It's a database of people, connected with Russia. Nationality doesn't matter. There are hyperlinks between members of one family with different surnames. Everything is in Russian (win 1251 encoding) but we speak English and
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| Volunteer skills | We would be pleased to get help in contacting people with Russian origin in all the world, in order to place their information to our site and help them to find their relatives. |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | Swiss Surname Directory |
| URL for more information | http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/survol-m.htm |
| Contact | Wolf W. Seelentag wolf@seelentags.de |
| Submitter | John Porter jporter@roadrunner.com |
| Project Description | The Swiss Surname Directory is designed to give some basic information on Swiss surnames by combining data from several sources. All information is compiled by volunteers on request |
| Volunteer skills | Must have regular access to the "Register of Swiss Surnames". Can be obtained through Family History Centers, film number #6053507. Volunteers can determine the time that suits them. Contact above and "describe what you would be able to do". |
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| Project Name | BMD(England, N. Ireland, Wales) campaign re. Access |
| URL for more information | http://parchment.com/genealogy/pages/campaign/ |
| Contact | The_Campaign@parchment.com |
| Submitter | Jenny jtfrench@vianet.au, Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net |
| Project Description | Campaign started by Anthony Camp for better and cheaper
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| Volunteer skills | Write letters supporting the campaign, design a logo, ideas for
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| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | FreeBMD |
| URL for more information | Test system only. http://test.rootsweb.com/FreeBMD |
| Contact | Camilla von Massenbach camilla@algroup.co.uk |
| Submitter | Camilla von Massenbach camilla@algroup.co.uk |
| Project Description | Transcription of BMD indexes for England and Wales for
free Internet access |
| Volunteer skills | For the test project: programmers, web designers, html coders, testers.
For the live project: transcribers |
| Status | In progress. Present volunteers being organized. Additional volunteers will be required later |
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| Project Name | National Burial Indexing Project (SHROUD) |
| URL for more information | http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6549/BurProj.html |
| Contact | Phil Bagnell press@ticetboo.demon.co.uk |
| Submitter | Camilla von Massenbach camilla@algroup.co.uk |
| Project Description | The Northumberland and Durham Family History Society is
the North East coordinator of this project. The purpose of the project is to provide genealogists with a readily accessible database of burials throughout Britain |
| Volunteer skills | Need volunteers to transcribe burial records, input into a
computer and check the data. Work can often be done at home |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | American Maritime Prisoners in the War of 1812 |
| URL for more information | not available at this time |
| Contact | Natalie Baer derbaer@aloha.net |
| Submitter | Natalie Baer Nbaer@hualalairesort.com |
| Project Description |
- Create complete list of all prisoners captured from ships during the War of 1812, circumstances of capture, admiralty case, where imprisoned, how long, any other pertinent information.
- Locate direct descendents of these prisoners.
- Turn over information to United Daughters of the War of 1812.
- Create a way to honor these men with plaques in their home of record.
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| Volunteer skills | Research British records for Admiralty Court case, ship log books, muster lists, other pertinent information. |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Amherst College Biographical Record (1821-1921) |
| URL for more information | http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/ |
| Contact | Richard Yanco rjyanco@amherst.edu |
| Submitter | Richard Yanco rjyanco@amherst.edu |
| Project Description | Amherst College is the third oldest college in Massachusetts, after Harvard and Williams, and was founded in 1821. Notable alumni include President Calvin Coolidge; Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Charles Merrill (of Merrill, Lynch, & Co.); Clarence Birdseye (the frozen food guy); plus a huge number of academics and clergy. The Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition, published in 1927, contains information about 9,780 students of the College in the classes of 1822 to 1925. Each biography contains, if known: date and place of birth; parentage; date and place of death; date and place of marriages, and to whom; schooling information; occupation information; notable achievements; etc. The students have 3,316 different surnames. All student names have been entered and are online; an index is online -- basically, a complete skeleton of the work is online. All that remains is transcription of 9,000+ biographies! |
| Volunteer skills | Reasonably accurate typing skills. I will mail you photocopies of pages of the book (you can view a sample page at http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/samplepage.html). Simply transcribe one or two biographies per day and email them to me -- I will take care of all indexing and HTML issues |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Civil War Units File (CWUNITS) |
| URL for more information | http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html |
| Contact | Carol Botteron botteron@cruciate.ai.mit.edu |
| Submitter | Not available |
| Project Description | The purpose of the file is to let people lists units,
groups, battles, etc. that they have information on and are willing to help other people research. People who are interested in a unit can send the contact person email and share information |
| Volunteer skills | Be a contact in order to help other people research. You
can volunteer for more than one unit |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Connecticut Civil War Muster Index |
| URL for more information | Not available |
| Contact | Paul Petersen paul.petersen@worldnet.att.net |
| Submitter | Not available |
| Project Description | Transcribing the Connecticut civil war muster index for the
Genweb project |
| Volunteer skills | Must be able to accept and view MS-Windows .bmp files. No
webtv or juno accounts. Four times a day an e-mail message with a small (typ. 6k) .bmp clip file containing one name from the index is sent to the volunteer. Volunteer's job is to view the file and reply to their e-mail by typing one line containing the name |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Connecticut Fairfield: CONNFAIRFI Vital Records Project |
| URL for more information | http://www.pclink.com/tar/connfairfi.html
http://www.pclink.com/tar/cffBeth578-579.html |
| Contact | Nancy Kendrick racecar3@bellsouth.net
Marg LaMadeleine exbanker1216@webtv.net |
| Submitter | Nancy Kendrick racecar3@bellsouth.net |
| Project Description | Transcribing, but not limited to, vital records of Fairfield County, Ct.,1850-1900, starting with 1900 and working back. Transcribing begins 1 February 1999. Transcriptions will be donated to ROOTSWEB Genealogical Data Cooperative |
| Volunteer skills | Full access to Internet through own computer. Capability to receive and access attachments through ISP and then transcribing the files, returning transcription in timely manner. Requires 10-15 minutes per week or more if volunteer desires |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Marriage Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, N.Y., N.Y. |
| URL for more information | http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/rdcmarr.htm |
| Contact | Lorine McGinnis Schulze lschulze@bconnex.net |
| Submitter | Lorine McGinnis Schulze lschulze@bconnex.net |
| Project Description | Transcribing the marriage records of the Reformed Dutch Church, N.Y., N.Y. The church records started in 1639. Marriage records from 1639 to 1695 have been transcribed and are on-line. Transcription of Marriages from 1696 on are part of the ongoing project. These records were originally published by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (NYGBR) and are being transcribed for The Olive Tree with their permission |
| Volunteer skills | Transcribing additional marriage records. Volunteers will need access to the published records for the years after 1699. The year and the volume number of the appropriate NYGBR issue will be provided to interested transcribers |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Mount Desert Island History and Genealogy |
| URL for more information | http://www.rootsweb.com/~meccranb |
| Contact | Charles Liebow cliebow@acadia.net |
| Submitter | Charles Liebow cliebow@acadia.net |
| Project Description | Mount Desert, Maine, Area Roots and
Families |
| Volunteer skills | Local resources, knowledge of cemetary, local history and genealogical sources |
| Status | Continuing |
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| Project Name | Southwest Michigan Military Registry |
| URL for more information | http://cwic1.jackson.lib.mi.us/van/vbrgs.htm |
| Contact | Toni I. Benson tbenson@monroe.lib.mi.us |
| Submitter | Toni I. Benson tbenson@monroe.lib.mi.us |
| Project Description | Free registry of any military personnel of any war/peacetime service U.S. or abroad. Only qualification is that registered person must have lived in southwest Michigan at some time in their life. A roster of those registered will be published on an ongoing basis on the Van Buren County GenWeb site.
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| Volunteer skills | not available |
| Status | In progress |
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| Project Name | Filmed Image Conversion and Access |
| URL for more information | Not available as yet |
| Contact | Mark Lewis hotshot@cs.byu.edu |
| Submitter | John Porter jporter@roadrunner.com |
| Project Description | Project by the Family History Technology Lab (FHiTL) is designed to make microfilmed images available on the web. Because of the scanned size of the images, an aid in selecting the right image is needed. A tool has been
written for simple data entry to provide basic information to allow a search for and access to the filmed record. The description of the image by volunteers will be entered into the database. The end goal is for users to be able to connect the FHiTL site, run a search and be shown a clip of the actual microfilm image. The searcher can download the entire image if desired. |
| Volunteer skills | Beta tests of the data entry and search tool will be conducted by individuals who have volunteered to participate. Their equipment must have a minimum of 64 MB of RAM as well as the use of Java. |
| Status | In Progress |
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