Volunteer Projects

Ancestry’s World Archives Project – index (digitize) paper records from home so that everyone can search and access them worldwide.

FamilySearch’s Indexing Program – Open a free membership, then index (digitize) paper records from home in the largest ongoing effort to make paper records available online for worldwide access.

Findagrave.com – Open a free membership, then take photos of headstones and upload them to grave profiles in online cemeteries so that families can find their family members’ graves.

Index with the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society with their Land Records Project.

Find other from-home indexing projects for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society on their volunteer page.

Find live indexing projects of historical records at Zooniverse (though they have projects in other disciplines, too!).