Lesson plans or videos for teaching indexing.

EddieAForce

I have been ask by my Ward Family History Leader to teach indexing to the youth. I am a seasoned Indexer but I am self taught and I would like to teach the youth the Church’s preferred way to do indexing. Is anyone aware of any authorized lesson plan or video that is available. I do a lot of review and it’s obvious to me that a lot of people doing indexing could us some training to make the process more uniform.

any help would be appreciated.

EA Force

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Dellory Matthews

Here's an indexing tutorial by Kathryn Grant of the BYU Family History Library and she is very experienced at teaching indexing.

https://fh.lib.byu.edu/2019/06/17/web-indexing-kathryn-grant-13-jun-2019-60-min/

Dellory Matthews

Jason Pierson, who was at the time the product manager for FamilySearch Indexing, has several videos on youtube. Indexing videos. You can Google and find those.

Also:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoiZaETrnV0>

13 minutes; Judy Sharp; BYU Family History Library; October 2019

And:

Here's an interview with Jason Pierson and discussion about indexing, including what's coming in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdqvYCPP7ho

Linda Adarae Smith

If I were teaching a class on Indexing I would include instructions for using the Icons. I found it much easier to use the icons after I knew what they meant. Before I was afraid I would "break the program" if I touched them. Good luck with your class.

EddieAForce

Dellory

thank you I was at a total loss on how to teach kids to index.

E A Force

EddieAForce

Thanks to everyone that responded to my need for help in teaching Indexing to a group of youth.

i have a good idea on how to go about it now.

E A Force