PLEASE HELP!! Am giving Young Women's class on basic Indexing 101 - Any items to absolutely include,
is there a tutorial they can watch?? something not dry as bones but will excite a 15-17 year old to put down phone & get passionate about indexing?? Thanks a bunch!! I am 70 year old & these will be young ladies!! Quite the age gap!!! Thanks so very much!!
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I'm going to tag all of our friends over in @Indexing Chat and hope they will give you some great ideas. On that page in the right hand column, you will also find links to Teaching Indexing with videos and PDF's and Indexing Tips and Tricks under Indexing Resources. I would tell the young women to join this group to get their questions about indexing projects answered.
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@Cassady, Holleen Hope There is a fun FamilySearch Blog Article that talks about Out-Of-The-Box Indexing Goals and Activities. It is along the Indexing Chat sidebar, and I will put it here. https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/indexing-group-goals-activities/
I have also found that the best way to teach youth is to have them teach you. This way you interactively learn together. I once taught a Spanish indexing class to English speaking youth and came away learning so much more because of the resources the youth know. They will amaze you!
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I would start out by talking briefly about doing ordinances for our kindred dead, and how record hints from indexed records are like magic when it comes to finding relatives you didn't know about. Indexing is exciting when you think about temple work and also how it helps people learn more about their relatives.
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Several months ago I taught our Young Women about indexing. I have a 45 inch monitor screen so evertone could see the screen together.
Because I do review of records and there were no beginner level records for them to learn from At the time, I pulled up a medium level review batch. We reviewed how to move around the screen, what each item was used for. We then reviewed the project instructions. Then I made a game out of it. For each field, the girls had to Guess if the entry was right or wrong and explain why. If no one know the answer, we used the field helps. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed being a bit competitive. Several of the girls have begun indexing.
Just as a note, I’m 70, too!
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Thanks for sharing those, Cheryl. I would not use video 1 or video 3 for training. Video 1 has a rather large error. The ones that the narrator marks as No, No Extractable Data have data and they are indexable. Just because he couldn't read them because they were dark, doesn't mean someone else couldn't. This batch should have been returned for another indexer to try. Video 3 is from the old indexing program and completely different from web indexing.
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I am 65 and enjoy indexing, reviewing and batching. From where I am, please tell them to follow directions for each batch. Use commas between city and states/countries. Most of the time, the maiden name will go with the females surname, not with her first name. Good luck!
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This video is helpful in learning how to index. Happy indexing!
Our daughter at 12 learned how to index and did hundreds of indexed names.
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Maiden names are very tricky. There used to be a whole article in Help on how to determine maiden names and if you couldn't then they would be indexed with the given name. Unfortunately, that article seems to have fallen from the instructions and we are left with
- Do not assume the surname of an individual based on the surname of someone else, such as a parent or a spouse, unless directed otherwise in the project instructions.
- Type the maiden name before the current surname. Often the term "née,” “geb,” or “geboren” was written with a surname to indicate a maiden name.
I think that we often see "formerly" or parentheses around women's maiden names so they would be indexed in the surname field. I'm not sure if it still applies, but, unless you can be sure the woman's middle name is a maiden name, either by context in the document, (i.e., her parent's name, a box that says maiden name, or another indicator), it is indexed in the given name field.
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Thanks - I just hate when I get an No Ex Data when I can plainly read it by inverting screen & adjust image!!! I get at least 2 of those a day!!! My biggest pet peeve would be those that use ALL CAPS - that hurts my tired old eyes that need new glasses but no eye doctors open in this town yet!! one day soon!! Thanks for the advise on the videos!!
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