I am a Family Search Indexer. I want to encourage everyone who has a computer with internet access and who can find a couple hours a week to sign up as an indexer. Two hours a week isn't much, and I have completed some of the assigned sheets in about half an hour. I can then quit for the week, or download another. Each page of records is read twice by two separate individuals. The computer compares them, and if there are differences, they're flagged for a third person to look at. This means that they're likely to have a higher degree of accuracy than if only one person looks at it. Doesn't mean perfection, because the records they're working from aren't perfect either, but every little bit helps, and they do try to make it as accurate as they can based on what they're working with. People do not need to be Mormon to help. In fact, if only Mormon genealogists help, it'll take a lot longer, because there are in the neighborhood of 3 million reels of microfilm, and several thousand microfiche cards. But if everyone with inter net access would commit to doing a page or two per week (you get a week to complete an assignment before they give it to someone else--this way they can start and finish a given project in a reasonable amount of time.) My husband and I have worked on Missouri, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and I notice that California, Washington, Illinois and several others are up to be done. I did three yesterday (and attended Church), and did one this morning...may do one this evening. If I can do some, probably everyone could do some if they're willing. It might be fun to have a roll call every week and see how many pages of indexing were done by folks on the list...and what places were done. March saw 4.5 million done, April over 7 million (not sure if that's names or pages, but either way that's a lot of folks, and it's just getting rolling.) See you at the indexing. Karen ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.