StumbleUpon – World Archives Project at Ancestry.com.au

Taking an obvious leaf from Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net), Ancestry has decided to let the public swarm over their undigitised records, and help turn them into searchable data. This will no doubt save them money and get some free advertising at the same time. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as it’s a worthwhile project to contribute to and every record that is digitised will be available for free, so they won’t directly profit from volunteers hard work.