Beginner Batches
There does not seem to be any Beginner batches available at this time. What do we do with people who are keen to do Indexing?
Thanks
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There are a number of other service opportunities apart from Indexing that you may be interested in. This is the work we do here in the UK and I assume that there will be an equivalent in New Zealand. I have included the contact details for the UK coordinators who will be able to answer any questions you may have. In the first instance I think you should contact your local FamilySearch Support team for your local contacts:
PacificSupport@familysearch.org
Service Opportunities in the UK ROC
February 2023
The UK ROC exists to give opportunities for Senior Service Missionaries, Young Service Missionaries and Volunteers to be involved in Family History based projects, all of which will lead, in some way, to gathering Israel on both sides of the veil.
Some of the projects have been broken down into several parts for training purposes.
1. Zero2Hero Project (Core Project)
This project involves adding sources, finding mother’s maiden names, expanding names, locations and marriage information and then merging any possible duplicates that are created, from a supplied database of those not previously on FamilySearch but added from the 1911 Census.
2. Source Linker Project – UK (Core Project)
This project involves using an interactive map and selecting places and/or surnames to find sources to attach to the Family Tree on FamilySearch. This project also allows opportunities to add many new people to the Family Tree.
3. Source Linker Project – US 1910 Census (Core Project)
This is an extension of the UK Project having sources for Europe including England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in connection with the 1910 US Census for those US citizens who were born elsewhere. We may therefore be able to track down some of our own ancestors who emigrated to the US prior to 1910.
4. Personal Source Linker Project. The UK ROC offers training on how to extend your personal family tree using the sources and hints available to us.
5. Infinity and Beyond Project – England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland (Core Project)
This is an advanced Image Organise Project that involves dividing films into smaller parts and describing each new part accurately to enable records on original images to be found much easier. Changes made in this project are instant and global.
6. Billion Graves Project
This project has 3 elements and you can get involved in any or all of them –
i) Taking photographs of local gravestones.
ii) Transcribing gravestones.
iii) Reviewing transcriptions of gravestones.
The transcriptions are then matched to the FS database and added as sources where possible.
7. Billion Graves Project – Wales
This project is similar to the previous project, with the added element of the Welsh language on gravestones.
8. Yellow Temples Project – (Coming soon)
This project involves discovering and editing individuals in the Family Tree to enable their Temple Ordinance work to be submitted…turning yellow Temple symbols to Green.
9. Names and Meanings Project (Almost completed)
This project involves rewording entries from ‘out of copyright’ books that show the meanings of surnames which will be submitted and published in the FamilySearch database.
10. Indexing and Reviewing (Core Project)
Indexing the UK record sets so that they can be published worldwide as soon as possible. The ROC offers Basic classes and Master classes in Indexing.
11. Indexing and Reviewing – Latin
We encourage you to be involved with the advanced projects – especially the Irish record sets, some of which are recorded in Latin.
12. Indexing Welsh ROM’s – Records of Members of the Welsh LDS communities that contain sacred, private and confidential material. (Special access given)
13. Project Analyse
This project gives authority to volunteers reviewing those Indexing batches that have been marked as having ‘No Extractable Data’ or have been returned multiple times. Decisions are made as to what happens next with the batches.
14. AI Project (Reverse Indexing)
This project involves teaching a computer how to read by accepting or rejecting supplied sets of words or phrases in comparison to the computer program’s own choices. This is leading to automated indexing across the world.
15. English Church Research Project (Almost concluded)
This project involves gathering information about every Anglican and Catholic Church in England so that they can be imported into the FamilySearch database as standardised places. Findings include Church names, locations, start and end dates and also churchyard information.
16. Scottish Church Research Project (Core Project)
This is similar to the English Church project except we are researching ALL Christian denominations for import to the FamilySearch database.
17. Welsh Church Research Project (Core Project)
This is the same as the Scottish Church Research project and you would be researching ALL Christian denominations in Wales for import to the FamilySearch database.
We offer individual or group training via Zoom for every project and regularly hold refresher sessions and support via Skype chats and facebook groups.
Contact:
Elder and Sister Wright
UK ROC Leaders
christopher.wright@familysearch.org
elaine.wright@familysearch.org
I hope this helps
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Wonderful information, thank you.
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Is there anything available in the US?
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Nothing currently for the US, but Billion Graves can always use help. You can sort by language, country, state or cemetery name.
The National Archives also has indexing. Citizen Archivist has Missions that range from log books to probate records.
Both BG and Citizen Archivist are free, the only requirement is an account. There are a few differences, however. BG is a flat interface; there is no level of difficulty. Just names, dates of birth/death and you can also customize it to include marriage date and maiden name. Sometimes with BG, a cemetery will say it has X number of graves, but then none show up. Just clear the filters and start over. A good hint with BG is the more population a state has (like Texas or California), the more cemeteries are photographed, which means more transcriptions. CA is a little more difficult, as some records are handwritten and some are typed. With CA, look for transcriptions that have "Not Started" above the individual records. Both sites are WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). There are no requirements for bold, special characters, etc. There are also no due dates or quotas. Uncomfortable with that record? Throw it back and grab another (this also goes for Family Search Indexing). Throw on some tunes or your favorite podcast or TV show and have fun.
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