The genealogy website Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription of the New York City Geographical Birth Index from today through September 7-15.
The website has easy-to-use task-sharing tools so volunteers can make contributions in their spare time. If you have 15 minutes, or an hour or more, consider transcribing some documents to help others find their New York City ancestors.
The New York City Geographical Birth Index was created by city archivists of every address in New York City from about 1880-1912 with the name and certificate number of whoever was born there. If you have a family’s address, you may find a child’s birth certificate through this index.
The 96-reel microfilm collection was discovered and published by the Reclaim the Records, a nonprofit association, six years ago. The reels were digitized by FamilySearch and published there and at the Internet Archive but no transcribed index of the collection existed until Geneanet began its project two years ago. Today, over 120,000 of the estimated half a million cards have been transcribed by volunteers. You can check which reels have been indexed here.
To get started on this indexing project, go to: https://en.geneanet.org/indexation/
