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Featured World Archives Projects
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    • Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1872-1914
      Easy
      76%
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    • Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971
      Average
      97%
    • Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1872-1914
      Easy
      76%
    • Cartes électorales de Paris et ses environs et d’autres villes françaises, 1900-1932 (France Electoral Cards)
      Average
      9%
    • Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947
      Average
      3%
    • Dorset, England, Quarter Session Order Books, 1625-1951
      Advanced
      9%
    • Dorset, England, Vagrant Passes, 1739-1791
      Average
      56%
    • Kansas, City and County Census, 1919-1978
      Easy
      1%
    • Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919
      Average
      6%
    • London, England, Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records
      Advanced
      33%
    • New South Wales, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1854-1930
      Average
      82%
    • New Zealand City & Area Directories, 1866-1955
      Average
      83%
    • Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Matrimonio, 1866-1937 (Registers of Marriage)
      Advanced
      17%
    • Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Morte, 1866-1937 (Registers of Deaths)
      Advanced
      36%
    • USHMM - Czech Republic, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1939-1941
      Advanced
      39%
    • USHMM - Czech Republic, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1948
      Average
      0%
    • USHMM - Eure-et-Loir, France, Selected Holocaust Records
      Average
      50%
    • USHMM - Krakow, Poland, Applications for ID Cards for Jews during World War II (Part 1)
      Average
      32%
    • USHMM - Odessa, Ukraine, Selected Holocaust Records from Romanian Occupation during World War II
      Average
      4%
    • USHMM Lodz, Poland, Vital Records of Jews in the Lodz Ghetto, 1939-1944
      Average
      3%
    • Warwickshire, England, Occupational and Quarter Session Records – Flax Bounty Lists
      Average
      71%
    • Warwickshire, England, Occupational and Quarter Session Records – Game Keepers
      Average
      59%
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