FamilySearch Indexing continues to be the greatest advancement in genealogy technology in years. We continue to encourage all Legacy Family Tree users to participate in this new project.
There are many indexing projects currently available, with many more in the works. Which project you work on is entirely up to you.
After opening the software, there are two main buttons. If you click on "Download Indexing Batch" you will be indexing the documents that fall into FamilySearch’s highest priority documents. In other words, FamilySearch decides which document they want you to index.
If, however, your ancestors lived in Illinois in 1900, you might want to participate in the 1900 U.S. Illinois Federal Census indexing project. You have the choice! Just click on the "Download From…" button, and you can choose any of the existing projects. Click on the image below to see what this looks like.
To Sign Up
If you have not yet signed up, please visit www.FamilySearchIndexing.org. To read our initial announcement about the project, click here.
The indexing project, which is simply the LDS extraction program updated to be entirely Internet based, is not intended to be a research tool for the individual genealogist. It is a labor of love that will provide others with easier access to their family records. The likelihood that you will download a census or civil record with your family line is almost non-existent. However, someone somewhere is transcribing your family records (or will eventually), enabling you to some day find that “brick wall” ancestor in an online database.