Volunteer Projects » Indexing & Transcribing

Crowd Sourced Indexing

CSI: Crowd Sourced Indexing. A tool for genealogy societies and special interest groups to manage their indexing projects.

Crowd Sourced Indexing: IGRA Projects

The Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] has set as one of its primary aims the preparation of databases based upon various records, mainly found in Israel, for as wide an audience as possible. We do this with volunteers that help us transcribe + transliterating (English <-> Hebrew) records we digitize in multiple archives.

FamilySearch - Get Involved

Projects to help index, name review, and record review.

NYG&B - New York Digitization and Indexing Project

Launched in 2017, the New York Digitization and Indexing Project aims to place thousands of records from across the state of New York online. The project is specifically focused on gathering, digitizing, and indexing records from New York's local towns and counties.

NYG&B - New York Land Records Project

Join this exciting initiative to index millions of land records from across the state of New York.

Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription Center

Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help us make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible. Since June of 2013, our community of "volunpeers" have collaboratively transcribed and reviewed over a million pages of field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimen labels, and historic audio recordings.

U.S. National Archives - Citizen Archivist Dashboard

You can make contributions to the National Archives Catalog to enhance access and discoverability. Transcribe historical documents, tag archival photographs, or share comments with other community members.