It will depend on the contract that FamilySearch and the record owner decide upon. Some records were microfilmed or, today, digitally photographed, as a matter of preservation and may not be indexed or put online. As a matter of privacy, records about people who might still be living may not be indexed or may not be made available.
Sometimes, only members of a certain group/organization may be invited/allowed to index. I recall a group of records from Virginia, a few years ago, that only members of a Virginia genealogical group could index.
And, records MAY have been indexed that are not yet online. It takes a great deal of time, behind the scenes, between when we indexers do our thing and when the index is published to the website. For a pet project of mine, it was nearly 3 years after the date the project was fully indexed and arbitrated and when the index went online.
What is the process for making records available for indexing?
I am a ward TFH Leader who wants to involve more members in indexing but there are few records available for beginners, so it makes it hard for me to begin training people new to indexing. Can someone tell me what the long-term prognosis is for having enough beginner records that I can get folks trained and moved up to intermediate and advanced indexers?
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There are a few recent threads on this topic:
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