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Avalves said: I think Family Search should explore the possibility to let the indexers choose the projects to index.
This could be a way to raise a considerable number of indexers interested in this activity, and increase the number of records indexed quickly.
I'm from a region in Portugal where there are no records indexed.
I could index with much more interest if think I can find useful information for me.
In other side I think the Portuguese indexers are better indexers to the Portuguese records as the Irish are better to Irish records and so on.
Who the best to understand Portuguese language, Portuguese paleography, Portuguese abbreviations and so on?
This is also true in the regional scale because the investigators can better understand the reality of their own regions.
This could also have impact in researchers of countries where portuguese immigration had big importance such as Brazil and other countries in Africa.
How can I know how many time I will be waiting to have the records that I need available? I'm still young and I can keep all the rest of my life waiting, but I would prefer to help and spend my time indexing those records in which I can find my own family history.
If it does not come to be possible, I will easily lose the interest and the motivation in indexing, and I imagine the same will happen with other people.
This could be a way to raise a considerable number of indexers interested in this activity, and increase the number of records indexed quickly.
I'm from a region in Portugal where there are no records indexed.
I could index with much more interest if think I can find useful information for me.
In other side I think the Portuguese indexers are better indexers to the Portuguese records as the Irish are better to Irish records and so on.
Who the best to understand Portuguese language, Portuguese paleography, Portuguese abbreviations and so on?
This is also true in the regional scale because the investigators can better understand the reality of their own regions.
This could also have impact in researchers of countries where portuguese immigration had big importance such as Brazil and other countries in Africa.
How can I know how many time I will be waiting to have the records that I need available? I'm still young and I can keep all the rest of my life waiting, but I would prefer to help and spend my time indexing those records in which I can find my own family history.
If it does not come to be possible, I will easily lose the interest and the motivation in indexing, and I imagine the same will happen with other people.
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lb said: Be assured that this message has been read by management and the engineers at FamilySearch. It is the best way to make your concerns and desires apparent to them and to be considered. Thank you for the indexing you have done so far. Any more you choose to do will also be appreciated and benefit many people.0
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Sonia Grant said: I agree, I am still awaiting records from Turks & Caicos to come on stream. In the meantime, I index records from the Bahamas.
There is not so much value for me at this time so I assist with other projects on ancestry. I had to pay to access some stuff but, I was able to accelerate my research. Be that as it may, this is always my first choice.0 -
Jennifer, N Caligari Damestoy said: I totally agree. I am from Uruguay there are not any project from Uruguay , i would love to index project from my own country and find my own family history! PLease try to this way it would increase the indexers for sure !!0
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Emilia said: This is an excellent idea. I have been reading pages and pages of records in films to find ancestors. I would be glad to index all the information I look through.0
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Jennifer, N Caligari Damestoy said: Exactly, you should create a way even if we had to pay the fee that we actually pay to request for a film. I pay my batch you send it to my account, i index it and i can send it back indexed , or may be i could send a group of names . For example the first 5 or 10 names, an so on .Gather them in groups and that could be a way.
Beleve me there are a lot of people waititing fot this .0 -
RealMac said: I think the model being discussed here is "crowd-sourcing", opening up images to the public and letting them contribute their readings. This approach is likely to be adopted by various archives as a way to index materials with little (institutional) effort, based on whatever the public finds most interesting. I think this model is the most efficient way to harness the talents and interests of dedicated genealogists and historians. The hope, of course, is that people who don't know what they are doing will be less inclined to generate garbage index data than will people who have more experience!
Remember, there is no impediment to taking matters into your own hands. You can index whatever images you can find, and then post the results in a PDF document on the internet, with appropriate source citations, links, and explanatory material, so that the names and other data can be easily found through a Google search.0 -
Pam Wood Waugh said: I have to agree very much. I know many of my friends would be help transcribe and index entries to records that interest us. Our issue is to find someone to take the digital shots of the film - and then we'll be happy to do the indexing. Let's face it - when you work one area for years and years, you know the families and are less likley to misread the names. I have boxes of actual microfilmed church records and others that have not been indexed. Main problem is no longer have my film and fiche readers. Had them for about 25 years (used), but I was forced to give them up when we downsized.0
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Bethany Anguiano said: I agree! My whole family comes from 3 small towns in Mexico and it would be much more motivation for me to index if I could work on those three towns. I am currently doing my own indexing of those towns for my own use, but it would be useful to so many more people if I could share that with others.0
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Avalves said: 3 years ago? After all it looks that nobody has read this message...0
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Bosch said: The problem I see is in Spain is that it contains different nations and they will be more pleased to contribute to their own nation. In other words: there are some projects from parts of Spain that Catalan people won't contribute. We are wasting their potential. If you want to see Catalan people contributing, among Spanish projects there should be a project from Catalonia.0
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Dulce Nombre Rexach Lineros said: Spain doesn’t contain ‘different nations’, it is one sole nation and country. It is composed of 17 different autonomous regions and people usually have ancestors in several of them (unless they are extremely endogamic). I am sure many of us would love to index records from any region other than our own, at least that’s my case as I’m interested in Andalucia and Cataluña. (Yes, I’m 50% Catalonian and no, I’m not a ‘charnega’, my Andalusians didn’t migrate to Cataluña. It was my Catalonian entepreneur ancestors who went to invest their money in Andalucia).
So, let’s stop looking at our own belly buttons and start being more solidary and generous with the rest of Spaniards.0 -
Bosch said: It's not place for political speech and nationalist negationism of national minorities.0
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Tom Huber said: This is a very old discussion and no longer relevant. Political and Religious discussions are off-topic (as Bosch points out) and a violation of the Code of Conduct for discussion communities. See https://www.familysearch.org/help/sal...0
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Tom Huber said: Moderator, could you lock this and other old discussions so their titles are not misleading if comments are made.0
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