Home› Welcome to the FamilySearch Community!› FamilySearch Help› Indexing

How do they know?

Dave C Smith
Dave C Smith ✭
September 4, 2021 in Indexing

Occasionally I receive a thank you note from someone for my having indexed one of their family names. How did they know I was involved?

0

Best Answer

  • Dellory Matthews
    Dellory Matthews ✭✭✭✭
    September 4, 2021 Answer ✓

    This is a great question! If you are at just the right spot for a record in Family Tree, you will see an option to "Thank the Volunteer".

    Here are the details:

    https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-is-thank-an-indexer


    0

Answers

  • annewandering
    annewandering ✭✭✭✭
    September 4, 2021 edited September 4, 2021

    As a clarification they do not know your name but the internal computer has a link to you showing you indexed that name. They will never have access to your name.

    1
  • Dave C Smith
    Dave C Smith ✭
    September 4, 2021

    Very interesting! Thanks for the explanation.


    dave

    0
Clear
No Groups Found

Categories

  • 22.8K All Categories
  • 378 1950 US Census
  • 46K FamilySearch Help
  • 89 Get Involved
  • 2.3K General Questions
  • 329 Family History Centers
  • 326 FamilySearch Account
  • 3.2K Family Tree
  • 2.5K Search
  • 3.6K Indexing
  • 435 Memories
  • 4.3K Temple
  • 251 Other Languages
  • 29 Community News
  • 5.3K Suggest an Idea
  • Groups