I received this email from Renee, who keeps tabs on what's going on with indexing of records that are going online at the LDS site. Currently millions of records worldwide are online and millions more will be added. If you haven't visited the site recently, you're in for a treat. I helped index records for a few months until going for radiation treatments daily got to me after 4-5 weeks. My other volunteer work has also taken a lot of time, too (rescuing cats). Now that I don't have to go so often for cancer treatments, I need to get back in the groove and donate my time again helping to index these census and other records. You can do a few minutes a day or a few minutes a week or month. You download just one sheet of a census at a time. If it's too hard, send it back and D/L another. Anyone can do it, so please help. (I was indexing the 1930 Mexico census, since I can read and write Spanish, although I don't speak it very well.) You don't have to do a lot of typing either. Only some of the fields are indexed, and many of the names, places, and other data can be easily selected. Laurie Nelson Here's Renee's blog. The last field is for the language the records is in. > (c) 2007 Renee M. Zamora All Rights Reserved=20 =5B All, I just can't approve posting of copyrighted material, unless a note granting permission from the copyright holder is permitted. BUT, you can always publish a Web link to the source. Renee's blog is at: <http://rzamor1.blogspot.com/> It's worth visiting. ;) - Mod =5D =22Laurie Nelson=22 <lanenelson1=40msn.com>
Laurie Nelson wrote: > Currently millions of records worldwide are online and millions > more Probably I'm the only one in the world who managed to misunderstand this, but ... In that sentence fragment, the words "millions of records" actually means "millions of ENTRIES". It's a picky-enough point, but since LDS has not-quite 3-million microfilms, millions of records is most of 'em, and they're nowhere near to being nearly finished. Still a worthwhile project to volunteer for (and I have), and still a potentially useful site to visit, though. Cheryl singhals <singhals@erols.com>