Citizen Archivist Missions

New to our Citizen Archivist program? Learn how to get started.

We've curated these missions to help you jump in and contribute! Click on a topic that interests you, and it will bring you right to those records in our Catalog where you can begin transcribing or tagging. New missions are added and updated regularly, so check back often to see what’s new.

Japanese Relocation - Santa Anita Assembly Center

Tag details and features found in these War Relocation Authority photographs from the Santa Anita Assembly Center.

Private Mohammed Kahn

Big record challenge! Help us transcribe the pension file for a Muslim Civil War soldier, one of only 250 known to have fought. Select a page without a blue tag and get started. 

Amerikaner Vorgaenge (AV) Reports

Transcribe the English translations of German reports on Allied prisoners transported to German prison camps, on downed Allied aircraft, and on the burial of deceased Allied personnel. 

Indexes to Naturalization Records

Quick and easy Mission! Transcribe alphabetical indexes of declarations of intention and petitions for naturalization from 1900 to 1991.

Civil Defense

Tag details and features in photographs depicting civil defense training, community outreach, auxiliary women's activities, and educational programs.

Homestead Final Certificates

Transcribe Homestead Final Certificates from the Omaha, Nebraska Land Office from 1863 - 1894. 

1970s America

Tag details and features in photographs taken for the EPA's Documerica program.

 

Truman Telegrams

Transcribe top secret, secret and confidential messages sent by the White House to diplomatic and military leaders pertaining to World War II and post-war Europe and Asia.

Don't Leave Us Hanging

Help us complete these records that have not been fully transcribed.

 

World War I Missions

As we commemorate the U.S. entry into the Great War, we ask for your help tagging and transcribing a rotating offering of records.  All of these contributions help make the records of the National Archives more discoverable. Visit the National Archives' World War I Centennial page to learn more about the war.

Internment Camps 

Tag details and features found in these images of German prisoners in internment camps.

Reports of Special Agents

Transcribe reports of special agents related to subjects for internment, exemption from classification as alien enemy, application for citizenship, conspiracy to obstruct the draft, failure to register, conscription matters, Espionage Act violations, liquor laws violations, Mann Act violations, and disloyalty.

 

Featured Records

Helps us transcribe these individual records.

• List of Demonstrations and Rallies as Reported by Regional Offices, 5/1/1992  Transcribe this record.
• Smokey Bear Nature Stories, No. 1016, 8/1959  Transcribe this record.
• Invitation for the State Dinner on the Occasion of the Signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, 3/26/1979  Transcribe this record.
• Enterprise Equipment at Work, 1952 Transcribe this record.
• Letter from Senator John F. Kennedy to Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II regarding the Japanese translation of Profiles in Courage, 28 June 1958 Transcribe this record.
• Petition from Polly Lemon to Congress, 11/10/1833 Transcribe this record.
• Offprint of Public Law 88-156, 88th Congress, H. R. 7544, Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, 10/24/1963 Transcribe this record.
• Speech by the Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, in the Canadian House of Commons Regarding the Future of NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization], 4/3/1952 Transcribe this record.
• Letter from Mrs. Paul Phelps Morand to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Regarding the American Delegation to the First Meeting on the Assembly of the United Nations, 10/19/1945 Transcribe this record.
• Voucher for Lard Oil for Construction of the New Orleans Custom House Transcribe this record.
• Alaskan National Monuments Transcribe this record.
• List of Demonstrations and Rallies Related to Rodney King Verdict, 5/6/1992 Transcribe this record.
• Attorney General's Papers: Contracts Employing Attorneys  Transcribe this record.
• Iran Update: November 19, 1979 Transcribe this record.
• Bill Smith Strip Cropping, 1952 Transcribe this record.
• Hyde Park - New York as a Seat for United Nations Organization, 1946 Transcribe this record.
• Abstract of Disbursements for New Custom House at New Orleans Transcribe this record.
• Voucher for Fireproof Roofing on Post Office in the New Orleans Custom House Transcribe this record.
• Letter from Ansel Adams to Department of the Interior Chief Clerk Floyd E. Dotson, 4/20/1942 Transcribe this record.
• United States of America v. William Joseph McMurtrey, Jr. and Edward August Ockel V  Transcribe this record.