FamilySearch Indexing hits milestone
David May 15th, 2008
To date the FamilySearch Indexing program has registered over 140,000 volunteer indexers. These individuals view batches of scanned census and other historical records and transcribe the handwritten text that they see. These batches take an average of 30 minutes each, depending on the type of document and the difficulty in reading the text.
Between January 1 and May 6, 2008, these volunteers have indexed over 50 million names! During the entire previous year, 95 million names were indexed. These are amazing numbers and a testimony to the power of leveraging the strengths of your community. Keep up the good work! For anyone interested in participating, they continue to look for volunteers at http://www.familysearchindexing.org. The data and images collected through FamilySearch indexing are available on the Record Search Web site at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch.
Do you know if Family Search has any plans to publish online past issues of the Millenial Star (1840-1970)?
It would seem that the earlier editions would be rich in family history conent for early LDS families that emigrated from the UK and Europe.
If you are interested in which indexing projects FamilySearch Indexing is working on, go to their site and click on the “Projects” tab at the top of the page. The majority of these are census records. If there is a specific source you have questions about, there is contact information on this same page for each source of the data.