I have found that the indexed records are put directly into nFS in say the last 3 months or less when I was working on the Bandkau family from Owosso, Michigan. I found it very interesting that this family that I pieced together showed up less than a week later at www.familysearch.org with a link to them in nFs when I was logged in as a member. If anyone wants exact dates, feel free to email me off line and I will give you the PIDs for this group. Send me an email to [email protected] with the subject BANDKAU PIDS Nancy Scott Sent from my Epic 4g -----Original Message----- From: Shanna Jones <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Extracted records released to the Temple Extraction began in 1978 "We are introducing a Churchwide program of extracting names from genealogical records. Church members may now render second-mile service through participating in this regard in extracting these names in this program, supervised by the priesthood leaders at the local level where you will receive further detail." (Ensign, May 1978, p. 4.) At that point there were only 16 temples. Extraction was done after the four generation program. The new FamilySearch program now provides members with this opportunity. Extraction was replaced with FamilySearch indexing and there are still teams out taking digital images of more records. Some of the extracted records are in new FamilySearch so that we can research and place them in families and eliminate the duplicates. All of the indexed records now go into the Historical Records Collection at www.familysearch.org so that we can search them and put them in the correct families in new.familysearch.org (or Family Tree) and source them using the documents. Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The way the old program shows the 1880 census is so far SUPERIOR to what is claimed to be improvement and certainly whoever put together the new program must have been programmers and people with absolutely ZERO research or genealogical experience in searching actual records. It would sure be nice if the church would decide to put some of the original records they have on microfilm on line without the indexing, i.e. especially wills and probate records, parish registers, etc. If this a permission issue or what? The Danish government as well as Norway has done such an excellent job of providing census and parish registers online. For instance, even the printed copies of the Great Britain Principal Probate Registry Index would be extremely useful online. Indexing is great; however, in my lifetime (not more than 25 years more), I would sure like to be able to search some of what the church has on microfilm--online, especially since I cannot get the the FHL anymore. I really do not care whether it is indexed or not. Steve Kelsey

On 3/28/2012 10:15 PM, Steve Kelsey wrote: > It would sure be nice if the church would decide to put some of the original > records they have on microfilm on line without the indexing, i.e. especially > wills and probate records, parish registers, etc. If this a permission > issue or what? Permissions must be obtained from owners of records before images are placed online. And FamilySearch have done a lot of that and lot of re-negotiation was involved with many of the owners. They investigate copyrights of church records, too. David Samuelsen