Genealogy Volunteer Opportunities
Are you looking for some genealogy volunteer opportunities? Have you got just a minute to spare, or a couple, or maybe even an hour? Are you looking for a volunteer project that the kids might enjoy doing too? Below are a few great volunteer projects that will benefit the genealogy community. Most of them will be happy for as little as five minutes of your time. Do you know of others? Use our “Submissions” tab to let us know!
Indexing & Transcribing
 | African-American Cohabitation Records - North Carolina State Archives | Transcribe records of enslaved people living as man and wife considered married by an Act in 1866. |
 | African American Education - State Archives of North Carolina | Help transcribe documents and photographs related to African American education in North Carolina before 1950 |
 | Alabama Dept of Archives & History | Help transcribe Alabama Supreme Court Case Files from 1820 - 1877 or Civil War & Reconstruction Governors Papers |
 | Beyond Borders: Transcribing Historic Maine Land Documents | Help transcribe 17th-19th century handwritten documents relating to Maine's land history |
 | BillionGraves | BillionGraves: Upload and/or transcribe photos of headstones. |
 | BillionGraves: Rescue Our Roots | Help transcribe headstones and connect records to FamilySearch |
 | Chinese Heritage Records - US National Archives | Help index records created to implement the Chinese exclusion laws, 1882-1943 |
 | Records from the British Columbia Attorney General Relating to the Chinese Community | Transcribe documents related to criminal prosecutions against the Chinese community from 1866 to 1914 |
 | CoLab - LibraryArchives Canada | Transcribe, tag, translate and describe digitized records from the Library and Archives Canada |
 | Criminal Characters - Australia | Help transcribe records of Australias prisons |
 | CSI - Crowd Source Indexing | Help individual group projects index records -- all kinds of projects available. |
 | Diaries : From the Page | Help transcribe any of dozens of personal diaries relating to travel, military adventures, and life in general. |
 | DigitalMaine | Digital Maine: Transcribe historical documents from the Maine archives. |
 | Europeana | Europeana: Transcribe historical documents from 1914-1918. |
 | Every Name Counts - Arolsen Archives | Help transcribe names in the Arolsen Archives, an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. |
 | Family Bible Preservation Project | Transcribe family bibles |
 | Family Papers | Choose from dozens of projects from various sources that are based on collections of family papers, including correspondence, journals and more. See if your family names are here! |
 | FamilySearch Indexing | FamilySearch Indexing: Index original record images from around the world |
 | FindAGrave | FindAGrave: Take and submit headstone photos, transcribe details |
 | From the Page | Choose from dozens of historical document transcription projects |
 | Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents - Library of Congress | Help transcribe centuries of Spanish legal documents at the Library of Congress (US). |
 | Illinois State Genealogical Society | The Illinois State Genealogical Society has several volunteer opportunities available. |
 | Immigrant Ship Transcription Guild | Transcribe ships' passenger lists. |
 | Inmate Case Files, July 3, 1895–November 5, 1957, US Penitentiary, Leavenworth | Help transcribe individual inmate case files. Nearly all include the inmate's name, alias, crime, length of sentence and more. Most include a mug shot. |
 | Israel Genealogy Research Association | Help transcribe records with the IGRA (in English) |
 | Key West Court Documents | Help transcribe Key West court documents from as early as 1800s |
 | Library of Congress | Help transcribe Library of Congress documents of all kinds. |
 | The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Help transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation |
 | Measuring the ANZACS | ANZAC: Mark and/or transcribe historical documents of early 20th century New Zealand soldiers |
 | Missouri State Archives | Help index death certificates or transcribe tax lists and criminal court index cards. |
 | Missouri State Penitentiary Register of Inmates | Help index Missouri State Penitentiary records from 1836-1986 |
 | Newberry Library Transcription Projects | Transcribe letters and diaries from the 1800s |
 | North Carolina State Archives - Transcribe NC | Transcribe historic documents from our digital collections |
 | North Carolina Primary Source Transcription | Transcribe handwritten primary source documents to help others search and explore North Carolina's history. |
 | Northeast Ohio and the Civil War: Primary Source Manuscripts at Cleveland Public Library | Help transcribe items including a diary, a set of letters, and a manuscript document from the Special Collections at Cleveland Public Library. |
 | Obituary Daily Times | Help index obituaries from your local publications. |
 | Ohio Memory Transcriptions | Help to reveal the untold stories of Ohioans from the past. |
 | PRINT! Explore the Past | Discover cultural, religious, and family connections through the correspondence of seventeenth and eighteenth century European religious minorities by transcribing letters. |
 | Project Infant | Help transcribe records of institutions that housed unwed mothers and their children in Ireland |
 | Revolutionary War Pension Files Transcription | Help transcribe military pension files from the Revolutionary War. These Revolutionary War Pension Files consist of applications and other records pertaining to claims for pensions and bounty land warrants. |
 | Royal BC Museum (Canada) | Transcribe diaries, military, scrapbooks and other records for the Royal British Columbia Museum (Canada) |
| Royal British Columbia Museum Transcribe | Help transcribe historical records from British Columbia |
 | Smithsonian Volunteer Projects | Smithsonian: Transcribe field notes, diaries, photo albums and more. |
 | Smithsonian Freedmen's Bureau papers | Help transcribe letters, diaries, log books, and other Freedmen's Bureau documents. |
 | Testamentos De Murcia | Testamentos De Murcia: Help transcribe over 36,000 testamentary dispositions in Murcia between 15th & 19th centuries |
 | University of Iowa's DIY History | Transcribe records from the University of Iowa’s Digital Library |
 | US National Archives Citizen Archivist | US National Archives: Transcribe the records of the US National Archives |
 | Veridian Volunteer Projects | Transcription projects from major libraries, universities and other sources. |
 | Virginia Memory - Making History - Library of Virginia | Help with enhancing access to collections covering 400 years of Virginia history, people, and culture. |
 | Virginia Untold: Free Registers | Help transcribe records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black people in the Library of Virginia’s collections |
 | Washington State Archives - scribe volunteer | Washington State Archives: Transcribe records from the Washington State Archives |
