FamilySearch Indexing | How it Works

This animated video gives a light-hearted, volunteer-level explanation of how indexing with FamilySearch works and why it is important for family history research.
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[@GenealogistBuchanan]

This is a great 2-minute video for explaining Indexing.

[@EnriqueField]

Indexando,brindamos a otras personas,la posibilidad de encontrar a sus antepasados.Esto nos permite conocer mas sobre nuestra familia y preparar lo que dejaremos a nuestra descendencia.Es una hermosa y gran tarea!Gracias por el video.

[@Shannaindexing]

Great video. I had a High Priest Group Leader tell me yesterday he would have paid money for this video two years ago! It really helped him understand the process.

[@BarbaraVanHeel]

Thanks for the tip! It worked like a charm. And I've needed this for a long time!

[@AnaliliB]

Thank you for this video.

[@ralph9763]

The most important thing anyone can do as an indexer is to FOLLOW INSTRUCTION!
Sorry, I didn't mean to yell, but this is sacred work and the indtrucions are available along with fild helps, so, if you choose to index -- commit to do it by the instruction. There are basi guidelines (document 112975) and there are project specific instructions. We need to follow them.

[@ewigerschuler3982]

May I ask what makes this work sacred?

[@paulwilkins8805]

Once volunteers do the transcribing do you then sell the transcriptions to Ancestry and FindMyPast?

[@BeatrizIMoro]

Dear Shanna, you can download it using this website:Keep vid. Enter the link, click the grey button on the right (the grey one!!!) then you can choose the format. It works! ;) xoxo

[@Shannaindexing]

Are these videos available anywhere besides youtube? Access is blocked in LDS meetinghouses.

[@jayr7485]

Any other way I can find photos of my old relatives IF my family or distant relatives do not have them?? Maybe like finding a copy of ID or something like that???

[@hawaiian-cerveza]

oh man, so many of the names are hard to read, especially in cursive.

[@bokgirl29]

there is a great tool on indexing (the pic of the pen drawing cursive) that helps with reading cursive handwriting! :)

[@hawaiian-cerveza]

@@bokgirl29 Is there one for when on family history looking at source pages?

[@sueschwoerer2661]

@@hawaiian-cerveza I looked, but didn't see one. I ended up printing off some of those charts that Bron-Tree-Saurus suggested. Also, I learned that you get better at figuring out what is written over time!

[@armama58]

What so I need to do to be a family indexer?

[@bobfl42]

How is the indexing verified. Easy for a tired person to make errors. Does say two people index the same record that would make verification easy.

[@SuperKellyfam]

Two people "index" every record, and then a third person "arbitrator" compares the results of both indexers as a final review before publishing!

[@rainydaywoman5758]

How many on here have had your genealogy done to see if you're related to famous people?

[@azhalia21]

Fernando perez no habla español
:/

[@LarryRichman]

Learn more at LDSMediaTalk com

[@matiashuamani4634]

HI EVERY ONE.
DO YOU KNOW IF WE HACE THESE VIDEOS IN SPANISH?

[@willflo2007]

eduardo huamaniquispe this is in spanish too. Estar en espanol tambien.

[@lisastoner6635]

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[@ebutuoy2280]

risinger of mo

[@lilbeyang8971]

Habac

[@Exaltaweb]

And now... computers can index too thanks to the inspiration creating AI!

[@fernandoperez6726]

Spanish please :D

[@willflo2007]

Fernando Perez: Aqui estar en Español czcams.com/video/VH1dsJQaKCs/video.html De Nada.