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Ancestry.com to digitally scan and archive more national records
Date: 02/06/2008
International records site Ancestry.com, www.ancestry.com, has been working with the National Archives and Records Administration to archive, digitise and index millions of records from the organisation. This will eventually create the largest online collection of records since 1998.
Throughout recent months, Ancestry.com has been scanning record documents on location at the organisation. This will eventually enable researchers to find ancestors in hundreds of years of military archived records unearth more family stories and eventually start or grow their family tree.
The organisation's records collection contains over 750 million names and around 70 million images in census, immigration and military records, among many other piles of detail.
The immigration records enable researchers to learn about relatives homelands and discover an ancestor's journey across oceans, arriving in more than 100 U.S. ports. Historical passport applications and border crossing records from destinations such as Canada and Mexico can also be found amongst the records.
Particularly in the U.S. While using the world's largest collection of military records access is available to more than 80 million records from major U.S. wars, including World War I draft registration cards, U.S. World War II army enlistment cards and draft registration cards, and U.S. Civil War soldiers.
By having this information available through the National Archives and Records administration, Ancestry.com has vastly increased their records system with more in-depth details which would attract the eye of many members of the public who are curious to find out more about their ancestors. scanning of these documents has also provided permanent backups of these records reducing the possibility of lost or damaged documents.
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