Thursday, October 30, 2008

Indexing Update

Partner Indexing Projects

FamilySearch has a growing number of society indexing partners. FamilySearch Indexing is working with genealogical or historical societies to complete projects of mutual interest. Volunteer indexers may have noted that partner projects are not readily listed in the available batches to index online unless the volunteer has been granted permission to participate by a partner.

FamilySearch indexers can request to participate in a partner project by sending an e-mail directly to the project’s contact or administrator. The society contact information is found next to the project listing (Go to FamilySearchIndexing.org, Projects, Current Projects, scroll down to partner projects, or just click here.

If permission is granted by the partner, an indexer will receive an e-mail with a new user name and temporary password to use when accessing that society’s project(s). Volunteers should use their regular login and password to continue indexing FamilySearch’s open (non partner) projects as usual.

Current society partners and projects are listed below:
  • Algemeen Rijksarchief en Rijksarchief in de Provincien (National Archives of Brussels)
  • Arkansas Genealogical Society
  • Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia
  • Immigrant Ancestors Project
  • Indiana Genealogical Society
  • Ohio Genealogical Society
  • The New England Historic Genealogical Society
Current Partner Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion Status

Arkansas Marriages [The first of these projects] English 5%
Arkansas Marriages IV English 2%
Belgique – Registres Des Décès (Français) French 14%
België - Overlijdens Registers - In het Nederlands Dutch, Flemish 5%
Bremer Schifflisten German New!
Flanders Death Registration French, Dutch, Flemish 33%
Indiana Marriages, 1790 – Apr 1905 English 60%
Indiana Marriages, 1882 – Apr 1905 English 64%
Indiana Marriage Returns, 1882 – Apr 1905 English 48%
Indiana Marriages, Apr 1905 – Dec 1957 English 40%
Nova Scotia Antigonish Church Records, 1823 – 1905 English 35%
Ohio Tax Records – 2 of 4 English 59%
Vermont Militia Records (Coming Soon) English New!

Indexes can be searched for free at http://pilot.familysearch.org. Visit regularly to see what is new!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Will The indexed information and the imagenes that are being worked with The Societies, be abaible for all people? Or just for the ones who indexed them?