You may already be aware that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has started a massive volunteer project to index millions of family history records. The indexed records are free to everyone. Volunteers have already indexed millions of names (which are already searchable here: http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0). > > The project is off to a great start--but as you can imagine, the amount > still left to do is staggering. And that's where we can help. If you have > an internet connection and just 30 minutes a week, you can index > names--you can do it any time of the day or night. You don't have to get > dressed up--you can index in your pajamas if you want :) > > Here is the indexing site where you can learn more and sign up if you want > to: www.familysearchindexing.com.
Wow. I've done over 500 pages for this effort and it is really wonderful to see some of the results of volunteer efforts. Researching these records and finding these kinds of results is SO SUPERIOR to Ancestry. com!!!! Thanks to all who participate for the good of genealogical research!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "L.L. Scott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:20 AM Subject: [FL-WFGS] Encouraging Indexing > > You may already be aware that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day > Saints has started a massive volunteer project to index millions of family > history records. The indexed records are free to everyone. Volunteers have > already indexed millions of names (which are already searchable here: > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0). >> >> The project is off to a great start--but as you can imagine, the amount >> still left to do is staggering. And that's where we can help. If you have >> an internet connection and just 30 minutes a week, you can index >> names--you can do it any time of the day or night. You don't have to get >> dressed up--you can index in your pajamas if you want :) >> >> Here is the indexing site where you can learn more and sign up if you >> want >> to: www.familysearchindexing.com.