Ancestry.com transcribes slave records.

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Ancestry.com is looking for few good transcribers to help it post tens of millions of historical records online for the first time.

The company has launched the World Archives Project to expand its current database of 7 billion historical records. Included are U.S. naturalization records, slave manifests from 1807 to 1860, and newspaper index cards from England, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Photographic images of the records will be available to Ancestry.com's subscribers, while the transcribed database of records, once posted, will be available online free of charge.

The company said nearly 35 million documents will be transcribed through the project this year. To do so, it has called on its user community to...

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