More on FamilySearch's Indexing Day

A follow-up on the FamilySearch International Indexing Day –
A new record was set with 66,511 volunteers participating. While there was a minimum requirement for participation - a single batch of indexing or arbitration work - it is appears that many volunteers continued working throughout the day as they produced the second-highest combined (indexed or arbitrated) total of submitted records at just over 5.7 million, which is a monumental crowd-sourcing effort. So now is the time to check FamilySearch again with nearly 6 million records recently indexed.

Worldwide Indexing Day

FamilySearch will run its next ‘worldwide indexing day’ on Monday July 21. This has been held for the past few years and is intended to inspire many to start indexing, while also prompting existing indexers to do a little more (at least on that day). FamilySearch, on average adds about 500,000 images to their website a week, and through their current volunteer indexers they get about a million entries indexed in the same timeframe. A single scanned image might have one name on it, or it might have fifty names on it – it simply depends on the type of document, so you’ll see that there’s a whole lot of indexing that needs doing. Worldwide indexing day runs for 24 hours and starts on Sunday July 20, 6pm MDT time in the US, which for us here in Australia translates to Monday July 21, 10am (AEST).

If you are interested in indexing, you don’t have to wait to the last minute to get involved. You can get started right away. Go to https://FamilySearch.org/indexing and find a project that interests you and get involved. Do some practicing before the July 21, 2014 Indexing Event.