LIMITED AREAS TO INDEX!
Dear Friend,
Since August I have been searching each Sunday for a place to do indexing in an English speaking country. I am intermediate in skills. Nothing is available currently except ADVANCED projects in the UK and Ireland. Nothing in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland. It has been almost 2 months since I could contribute. When will more opportunities be available in English? The beginner and intermediate opportunities are thin. Thank you for your help.
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Hi John R Cash Jr, You must be looking on a different list than me. I just checked on English, beginning and intermediate and counted 20 projects available. Are you checking for projects from your web indexing home page??
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You are probably clicking on Find A Project. It is useless. But, it is really nice that they have placed a red box with a link to Web Indexing on that page! You can click on Web Indexing there now.
You can also click on Indexing and then Web Indexing. There you will see Find Batches and you can filter your results.
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They should disable Find a Project until they fix it Or just redirect it to Find Batches. IMO it does more harm than good.
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Hi John,
There are several English projects that would love your help.
Log in to FamilySearch and go to Web Indexing.
And click the blue 'Find Batches.'
If you set your search for English and then click all the boxes for Easy, Intermediate and Advanced you will get a better selection. If you find that, for whatever reason, a batch is too difficult then just return the batch and keep trying until you can find a batch that you are comfortable with.
I don't know it you will get it where you are but there is a group called 'ROC UK and Ireland' who are currently indexing church records from Ireland, I love doing them as I have family from Ireland. Yes some are difficult, in Latin, faded or the 'local doctor' with terrible hand writing wrote out the records but there are some real gems that are easy to do. Also some of the Latin ones are very easy as the books pages are well laid out and easy to transcribe. Also there is help for the Latin so it becomes easier.
Best regards
Cedar
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