Name Extraction Project
Navy Officers & Enlisted Men that Died in World War 1
The US Government published the names of Navy personel that died during World War 1. For this project, volunteers look for the name of the individuals in FamilySearch to determine if there is a record for them. If not the individual is added to FamilySearch.
How does the program work?
The orginal book was scanned by the Family History Library and placed in the online archive. Volunteers have transcribed the summary information to a shared Google spreadsheet. Using this information volunteers can look in FamilySearch to see if the individual’s information has been entered. If not, the individual is add to FamilySearch. The result is updated on the spreadsheet.
One of the most interesting parts of the project is for you, the volunteer, to discover your relationship to the individual. If you are of European decent the chances are pretty good that you will find many relatives. You will also discover that most of the individuals have temple ordinances that need to be performed. If you feel the desire, you can also do additional research on members of the family and in the process add more names to FamilySearch.
