30 for 30 - #19: Score over 300 points of family history indexing.

I did it!!

Done! I finished this one last Sunday morning, sometime around 1:00am. So here's what it is. There are thousands upon thousands of records floating around the world about people who were once alive. These records can be Census Records, Draft Notices, Death Certificates, Birth Certificates, it goes on and on.

To help people track down and account for their ancestors different organizations have been working to make these records easily accessible by computerizing the data. Because of the incredible number of records out there....they need help.

I happen to love, love, love typing, sometimes just for a good time (check out TyperShark on Yahoo, you'll get hooked). After watching Wendy, my sister, do some "data extraction" or "indexing", I decided I might give it a try. Inadvertently, I came up with this as my goal. And last Saturday night once I started I couldn't stop, the typing is so fun, and trying to figure out who people are and where they are from is exciting. I'm excited for who ever belongs to those people.

If you're interested in helping out with it, it's really easy and they teach you how first on the website, go to www.FamilySearch.org. On this site you can do some browsing for your own family, or if you click the Help Out link on the right hand side of the page, you'll be typing away in no time.

This is what a Census document looks like, you just fill in the columns in the bottom window.

Comments

Anonymous said…

You forgot to mark off the circus trick. Hurley can jump through a hoop. Or was that it's own goal?

7:51 PM

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