FamilySearch Indexing

Miles Meyer Single Adults Presentation 18 May 2012

What is FamilySearch?
FamilySearch is the world's largest genealogy organization. FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving and sharing records for over 100 years. FamilySearch has over 4,500 Family History Centers in over 80 countries. FamilySearch operates and maintains the FamilySearch.org website.

What Can I Find at FamilySearch?

FamilySearch Portal Tech Tips FamilySearch Indexing Forums Records Genealogy Software Family Trees Catalog of Resources Community Trees Scanned Books FamilySearch Wiki Order Microfilm/fische Training Directories of FHCs And Much More!

Whats Happening at Family Search?

FamilySearch has published 530 million images and 1.7 billion indexed records. FamilySearch has signed an agreement with the Italian government to digitize all their civil registration records. FamilySearchs goal is to publish 400 million images this year.

Whats Happening at Family Search?

FamilySearch has 3.5 billion frames of microfilm/fiche yet to be digitized. FamilySearch teams are capturing 75 million new images annually. 1.3 million records are indexed each day. FamilySearch will add the capability for users to annotate records with corrections this year.

1940 Census!
The 1940 census was released to the public on April 2. There are 3.6 million images in the 1940 census. More than 650 societies are helping to index the 1940 census. Over 30% of the census has been indexed already! The current projection is that the census will be complete in July.

FamilySearch Records
https://www.familysearch.org

Contains billions of names across hundreds of worldwide collections (>100 countries). Goal is to have all microfilmed records digitized and searchable (2.5 million rolls=~10 years to convert to digital format @ ~5 minutes per roll). There are over 200 teams in over 45 countries digitizing new records as we speak. Access to entire records collection is FREE*.

Unindexed Indexed Images

WESTERHEIDE

WESTERHEIDE OHIO 1890 1920

How Can You Help FamilySearch Indexing?

https://indexing.familysearch.org

Volunteer indexing program for worldwide records collection (>150,000 active volunteers from 130 countries). Indexing done on your home computer at your own pace. Two people index each page. Differences are reviewed by Arbitrators.

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