FamilySearch Indexing

A Worldwide Effort to Index

Historical Records

Presented by the Flagstaff Family History Center 2007

 Granite Mountain
Records Vault

2.5 million microfilms from 110 countries

5 billion historic documents

Enlisting 100,000 Indexers

Help preserve heritage of

families throughout world

Boost research needed to

provide ordinances
Download free indexing software

Index records of choice

100,000 indexers by end of 2007

 10, 000 Volunteers Needed

English and Spanish Readers

Indexing of Mexican, Argentine, and

other Latin American Records
 Mexican Census of 1930

Take About a Year

Online and linked to original census

images at FamilySearch.org
 An Overview
• Anyone can volunteer
• Can begin indexing right away
• A batch is 50 records
• Takes about 30 minutes
• Up to a week to finish
• Program remembers what was done
• Simple way to be involved with
redeeming dead
How Does Indexing Begin?
Filming Church and Government
Records
One film = several hundred
individuals
 Divided film =
small batches of 20 - 50 names
Request Records to Index
A and B Extraction
Are they the same?

Compared for Accuracy

 OOPS!!!

Disagreement = Arbitrator
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Corrected = Database at Church

Headquarters
Prepared and Made Available at
FamilySearch.org.
My Work Feature
My Messages Feature
My Personal Goals Feature
Personal Goal
My History Feature
Indexing Web Links Feature
Project-Specific Instructions
Field-by-Field Helps
Indexing Process
 Indexing On the Internet

“Server Computer”

Batch Copied to
Personal Computer

30-60
Work “on or off” line
minutes
Indexing Page and Field Help
Project Help
 Table vs. Form Entry

Table Entry Form Entry

Field History
Lookup Lists
Quality Checker
Accept or Change a Value
Submit
Saving Work
Return a Batch
History of Names Submitted
“. . . Let the dead speak forth
anthems of eternal praise to the
King Immanuel, who hath
ordained, before the world was,
that which would enable us to
redeem them [our dead] out of
their prison; for the prisoners
shall go free.” (D&C 128: 22)
“. . . Let us, therefore, as a church and a people,
and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an
offering in righteousness; and let us present in his
holy temple, when it is finished, a book,
containing the records of our dead, which shall be
worthy of all acceptation.” (D&C 128: 24)