I Helped

I haven't been doing much with my Genealogy lately too busy with kids and life.

I did take some time to index a batch for this event. 

It was a passenger list with 80+ names on it.  I thought it was never going to end but it did and hard handwriting, that did get a little easier once I got accustomed to the writing.  

Here is a screen shot of the second page.  

Click here to see all that was accomplished.

I Made History

I did participate in this worldwide event. 

 

A fun experience I had while indexing was I indexed the obituary of E. B. white, the author of Stuart Little and Charlotte's web.  It was a very lengthy obituary.  It spoke about how he didn't like wasted or extra words and I kept thinking he would not like this obituary.

 

Here are the results of this event.

 You We set a record for the greatest number of indexing participants in a single day. A total of 66,511 volunteers participated and more than 5.7 million records were indexed! Share this badge with your friends to let them know you made history.

 

Now to keep on indexing a little every week. I haven't done a lot since my two foster girls moved in on November 16, 2012.  I was asked by their grandmother to take them in the day before I retired.  On the day I retired I left work at 2PM and I had them by 330PM.  They our great nieces and sweet busy girls.  Soon we will be adopting them and then I will share more. 

 

1940 Census Will Need Indexers!

The Census release is getting closer, 34 days at the time of this writting. I have been talking to friends encouraging them to sign up to do some indexing.  As a matter of fact I did a test index page on Sunday.  If you have never index, it is easy to sign up and do the program download.  It is a 1000 times better than it was about 15 years ago. 

Anyone can index!  Check it out at Family Search, this link takes you right to the indexing page. The test drive button shows you how easy it is to do indexing.  The second button takes you to the area go actually do indexing.  Try it you will like it!