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FamilySearch notes for SGES meetingMiles Meyer - 12 May 2012What is FamilySearch?How many of you are participating in the Indexing project?Got this from a blogger who was at a briefing for bloggers at the NGS

Convention last night.

FamilySearch has published 530 million images and 1.7 billionindexed records.

FamilySearch has signed an agreement with the Italian government

to digitize all their civil registration records.

More than 650 societies are helping index the 1940 census. Just over 30% of the census has been indexed.

By the time you read this, there supposedly will be indexes published

for six states. Do I remember which they were? Ummm. Delaware

and Colorado, then Kansas. New Hampshire, Oregon, and Virginia.

By my calculation, that amounts to 5.47% of the census.

Eight additional states are at 100%. After hitting an indexing project

hits 100%, FamilySearch does a time-consuming audit, spot checks

errors, bundles up the data ready for publication, shares it with her

Community Project partners, gives them a chance to get published,

and then publishes it on FamilySearch.

The current projection is that 1940 indexing will be complete in July.

FamilySearchs goal for image publication for the year is 400 million

images. Compare that to the 4 million images of the 1940 census.

Even bigger, the Granite Mountain Record Vault is thought to

contain 3.5 billion images. The point: FamilySearch needs indexing

volunteers to stick around after the 1940 census and it needs a whole

lot more. FamilySearch teams are out capturing more records all the time. A

system called Field Express adds 75 million images annually. Within weeks, the index from BillionGraves who can be found athttp:/

/www.billiongraves.com will be posted on FamilySearch.

FamilySearch hopes to ship by the end of the year a feature that
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would allow you to annotate records with corrections. They are working on new arbitration models that would cut down on

the amount of arbitration that must be made. Besides the U.S. status map atwww.familysearch.org/1940census,

there is also a secret status dashboard athttps://the1940census.com/dashboard/ that gives various statistics about the indexing project.

One graph shows number of records indexed per day (lately about

1.3 million records):

Helpful hints

IE9 is unstable - use IE8, Firefox, or ChromeDo you want to sign up?

1. visit familysearch.org2. click on help3. search for Public access to Family Tree4. follow the instructions and click on the link to sign up

1. If you do not currently use new.familysearch.org, you must

first sign up to use new.familysearch.org. (If you currently usenew.familysearch.org begin with step 2.)

Go tohttp://www.familysearch.org/invite/public1. Enter the user name and password of your FamilySearch

Account. Click Sign In.

2. Sign up to use the Family Tree: Go tohttps://www.familysearch.org/invite/familytree_tab. Enter the user name and password of your FamilySearch

Account. Click Sign In. You will be taken to familysearch.org, where

you will be signed in and see a Family Tree link next to theFamilySearch logo.

3. To see your tree, click the Family Tree link. This link is located in theupper-left corner of the screen, next to the FamilySearch logo. Because only those who are deceased are shown in Family

Tree, you won't immediately see your tree. You will need to addliving parents or grand-parents until you can connect to one ofyour deceased ancestors.

Search for a deceased ancestor first so that you will know
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which living people you have to add to create the links back tothe deceased ancestor you find.

Repeat this process on each of your ancestral lines to createyour full tree.

Notes: Family Tree currently lacks the ability to add individuals

either living or deceased. To add individuals you will haveto do so in new.familysearch.org.

You may not find a deceased ancestor in thedatabase. In this case you will need to add them innew.familysearch.org.

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