Create your own indexing on local documents
It would be create if you could create your own indexing project on some documents and would have a label unreviewed if needed.
If you are going through your local city’s unindexed document over and over searching for new information can be really tiring and bothersome :(
It is specially true for marriage and death records :|
This addition would really help the local community and those who are only interested in that area, but at least yourself.
Thanks for reading it and please consider it.
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This is frequently requested. However FamilySearch needs the permission of the record owner to index records. It is also much more efficient to have a small number of larger projects been done in an organized way rather than having many individual mini-projects created in an unplanned way.
If the records are uncopyrighted and freely available public documents there's nothing stopping you from making your own website and publishing indexes or transcripts. I've done this myself. But be very sure you are allowed to do this before starting.
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The one I’m particularly speaking is free even there is a dedicated website for them and google drive with the documents.
I know I can create a website and all that, I just thought it would neat to have all in one place and accessed by all other family researchers here.
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I sympathize, @cvanna. There are standards of practice in collections management, and there may also be privacy laws, that local records custodians must follow. And I have read statements from FamilySearch about the necessity of prioritizing the backlog of collections they have already scanned but not finished indexing.
Where you might make headway is if you work with the custodian collections manager or librarian to make an index. You could format it as a booklet or book, make a PDF, and the custodian could put it on the web or their collections catalog, anywhere they like to keep their finding aids. Then, you could link to it from the Research Wiki. That would make it highly discoverable while keeping the custodian happy.
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