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FamilySearch Indexing
Miles Meyer
Single Adults Presentation
18 May 2012
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What is FamilySearch?
FamilySearch is the world's largest genealogyorganization.
FamilySearch has been actively gathering,
preserving and sharing records for over 100years.
FamilySearch has over 4,500 Family HistoryCenters in over 80 countries.
FamilySearch operates and maintains theFamilySearch.org website.
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What Can I Find at FamilySearch?
FamilySearch Portal
FamilySearch Indexing
Records
Family Trees
Community Trees
FamilySearch Wiki
Training
Tech Tips
Forums
Genealogy Software
Catalog of Resources
Scanned Books
Order Microfilm/fische
Directories of FHCs
And Much More!
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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.
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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 usersto annotate records with corrections this year.
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1940 Census!
The 1940 census was released to the public onApril 2.
There are 3.6 million images in the 1940 census.
More than 650 societies are helping to index the1940 census.
Over 30% of the census has been indexedalready!
The current projection is that the census will becomplete in July.
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FamilySearch Recordshttps://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 todigital 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*.
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WESTERHEIDE
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WESTERHEIDE
OHIO 1890 1920
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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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