Preserving the Story of America: Ancestry Announces Largest Archive Collaboration to Date with the National Archives and Records Administration
Tens of Millions of Historical Records to be Added to Ancestry's Platform Over the Next Five Years
LEHI, Utah, May 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, announced a new multi-year agreement with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to digitize, index and publish tens of millions of NARA records on their platforms over the next five years. This will be Ancestry's largest public-private and archive collaboration to date.
During the course of the project, Ancestry will digitize NARA collections that have previously not been available to search and view online. In the first phase of the project more than 65.5 million records will become available on Ancestry's website, including WWII U.S. Morning Reports, draft cards from the Korean War era, Naturalization and Immigration records, Asian American records, and Native American records, among ...
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