Do you sometimes feel as if you are just aimlessly surfing the web? Don't you wish you could be accomplishing something worthwhile, maybe even important? Most people would tell you to get off your lazy butt then. But not me. No, I appreciate you and I'm here to give you another option.
The Latter-Day Saints have a thing for family trees. I don't know why, but they consider it their personal mission to catalog and index everyone's genealogy. Luckily for us, they give all the info away once they index it. This means that everyone can benefit from those plucky Mormons. Wouldn't you like to give back a little? Now you can.
Family Search Indexing is a piece of software that allows volunteers to index information found in scanned historical documents. This makes that information much easier for everyone to search, and it becomes a backup for all those old records.
The software itself is a little intimidating, but they have some nice tutorials to step you through the process. The most difficult part is deciphering the handwriting on the documents, but I imagine you get better as you go.
So if you have some extra time, try it out.
1 comment:
Lewis....your Aunt Penny does genealogy research as a hobby for herself and for a fee for others.
She knows all the in and outs of research and is quite good. She receives requests for her research from all over the country.
You might ask her if it is alright to post her email address on your blog site for those who read this and want help finding their "roots".
Ma
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