Crowdsource Projects Around the World Benefit Genealogists (Techniques)

The pandemic made crowdsourced projects go into overdrive!  With many stuck at home, armed with the internet and a computer, crowdsourcing confirmed itself as here to stay. Since the pandemic, we have continued to see an explosion of crowdsourced projects genealogists want to know about, either to benefit their research or maybe a project to lend a helping hand to.  

We’ll explore some larger platforms like From The Page, Zooninverse, CSI, HistoryPin, etc., which house hundreds of internationally and genealogically relevant crowdsource transcription projects. We’ll also check out some standalone projects of different types that interest genealogists. 

Accessing crowdsourced projects usually gives us “early” access to records that will eventually be housed on a repositories’ digitized platform (and fully searchable). Crowdsourced projects greatly benefit genealogists because they take digitized information and make it fully searchable—priceless!