According to a March 27, 2015 article posted at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, Ancestry.com is currently suspended from digitizing 49 million WWII Draft cards at the Federal Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. An Ancestry employee, seemingly running behind on their work, was caught attempting to destroy records. Ancestry is under contract to digitize Federal records at five sites, including St. Louis.
Ancestry fired the employee, but their operations were put on hold. As of the date the article was published, two of the Ancestry contracted digitizing teams were back at work, but three, including the St. Louis Federal Records Center team, were still suspended.
It seems that all the papers were recovered.
Let’s hope Ancestry is able to get a handle on their employee supervision issues, and things get back to normal quickly. There’s a lot at stake here.
