Friday, February 8, 2008

Just how good are the FamilySearch indexes ?



FamilySearch Indexing continues to grow. Today Headquarters announced that over 115,000 volunteers have signed up to help index records.

The fruits of the efforts are starting to help people more easily identify their ancestors. The completed projects, with the linked images, are freely available for searching at http://labs.familysearch.org. For
example, one of the first indexing projects was the 1900 U.S. federal census. The entire census (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) is now searchable at the labs website.
Read more on this at:
http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2008/01/familysearch-in.html
(Source: Legacy News)