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.

Interrogation Reports

Transcribe the official reports of the interrogations that were taken from the survivors of the captured or sunk German u-boats and raiders.

Correspondence Relating to Reindeer Meat

Transcribe correspondence regarding sales and transportation of reindeer meat; hides; costs; and supplies.

Joe Louis

Help us transcribe the Official Military Personnel File for Joe Louis Barrow, know professionally as the boxer Joe Louis.

Native American Reservations

Tag details and features on these photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs documenting the Native American residents of reservations as well as their living and working conditions.

Permission to Depart from the United States

Transcribe alien applications for permission to depart the U.S. from the Department of State Division of Passport Control.

President's Office Files

Help us transcribe President's Office Files, a set of working files kept by President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Subjects include PT-109, recipes, astronauts, civil rights and more.

1970s America

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

 

Disbarring Attorneys and Agents, 1887 - 1907

Transcribe orders of the Secretary of the Interior withdrawing recognition of persons as attorneys or agents in the prosecution of claims or other matters before the Department or its bureaus.

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.

American Library Association

Tag details and features found in photographs of the American Library Association on the homefront during World War I.

Alvin York

Transcribe the large Official Military Personnel File for Alvin C. York, Medal of Honor recipient and most decorated soldier of World War I. Find a page without a blue tag icon and begin transcribing.

 

Featured Records

Helps us transcribe these individual records:

• Act of June 15, 1917, Public Law 24 (Espionage Act), An Act to Punish Acts of Interference with the Foreign Relations, the Neutrality, and the Foreign Commerce of the United States Transcribe this record.
• Supreme Court opinion in Rudolph Abel's appeal of his conviction as a spy, 3/29/1960 Transcribe this record.
• H. R. 14359, 72nd Congress, 2nd Session, 2/28/1933 Transcribe this record.
• Mrs. Hoover comments on her husband's career and public service during the campaign of 1932., ca. 7/1932  Transcribe this record.
• 228-07 Operation Jingle Bells - 1971 Transcribe this record.
• Maxim Gorky's Appeal to the American People, 7/13/1921 Transcribe this record.
• Report of a suvey for a military wagon road between Valdez and Eagle, Alaska. Transcribe this record.
• Writ filed in the case of Loewe v. Lawlor Transcribe this record.
• Secretary's Summary about a Message Regarding Unemployment in the Navy from Representative Emanuel Celler, 10/9/1930 Transcribe this record.
• Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense - Subject: Berlin Contingency Planning (U), 6/26/1961 Transcribe this record.
• H. R. 14450 Establishing an Emergency Construction Fund With Suggested Edits from President Herbert Hoover, 12/4/1930 Transcribe this record.
• A narrative report on Camp DG-31, Vernal, Utah, 1937 Transcribe this record.
• Memorandum Regarding Inspections and Tests of Surrendered German Submarines, 5/28/2011 Transcribe this record.
• Answer and Affirmative Defenses, 10/12/1983 Transcribe this record.
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,261, Daniel Bowen, Privateer R.I. R.I. Sea Service Transcribe this record.
• Martinez Nadal Contesta a Gruening Translated Newspaper Article from El Imparcial, 11/25/1935 Transcribe this record.
• Memorandum of Conversation [MemCon] McNamara to Strauss, 7/14/1961 Transcribe this record.
• Message from the President of the United States Vetoing H.R. 12445, 7/11/1932 Transcribe this record.
• Unpublished autobiography of Katherine A..H. Smith Transcribe this record.
• Copy of a Letter from Thomas H. Carter to H. C. Payne, 3/11/1902  Transcribe this record.