Prayer card collections better searchable
Prayer cards are an important source for genealogical research. Many community societies have prayer cards in their collection which they make accessible via the Internet, some only by providing an index (and scans on request or on location), others by also offering the prayer card as a scan.
Open Archives would like to give these collections a larger stage by recording the index data on Open Archives. The people mentioned on the prayer cards are now also findable on Open Archives, they link to the source websites.
The following prayer picture collections are now included on Open Archives:
New data added
 At the beginning of the year, "new" volumes of sources are often made public. As an example, City Archive Zoetermeer had made public the civil registry births of Zegwaart and Zoetermeer of 1917 and civil registry deaths of Zoetermeer from 1941-1950.
 Work is also being done on getting "older" sources online. Many volunteers help the archive institutions with the indexing of sources. As an example, the Regional Historic Centre of Limburg has now put online the population registers of Maastricht from the period 1850-1860, including scans.
As soon as this kind of new data becomes available, Open Archives contacts the archives, so that the data can also be found on Open Archives.
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