FamilySearch – Publishing Indexed Microfilm to the Internet has Begun

Geoff Rasmussen

25 Jun 2007

FamilySearch is beginning to publish the digitized microfilm from their vaults to the Internet. These records are being indexed by volunteers via www.FamilySearchIndexing.org. We’ve previously written about these projects in these articles:

FamilySearch is now testing the searching capabilities of the records that we have been indexing. Current projects that are now either browsable or searchable include:

1880 United States census
1900 United States census
1930 Mexico census
New York Passenger Arrival Lists (1892-1924)
World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Freedman Bank Records 1865-1874
England, Diocese of Durham Bishops’ Transcripts ca. 1700-1900
Ohio Deaths 1908-1953
Ontario Deaths, 1930-1932
Texas Death Index 1964-1998
U.S. Social Security Death Index
Utah Death Certificates 1904-1956

How to Begin

At the FamilySearch Labs site, click on the Register to use Record Search link. You may be selected to participate. If you are, you will have free access to the above records where you can help FamilySearch test their services and provide valuable feedback. FamilySearch plans to make their records available for free to the public. Visit http://search.labs.familysearch.org/ to get started.

Comments (4)

It also helps when those indexing American records are native English speakers — not the off shore cheap labor that ancestry.com has used — often leading to “unavailable” records if the names are transcribed incorrectly!

Well Vicki, I hope you are at least helping to do the indexing. The more of us who do it, the faster it ALL will be available. It’s a mammoth job!
PS. Fun too!

Only problem Vicki is that on ancestry.com you have to purchase a membership which can be quite expensive for some so this would be a good way for people who can’t afford a membership to be able to research the census’s available to them.

I”m kind of disappointed. Most of those are already available on ancestry.com. I would like to see what has been UNavailable online.

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tami

17 years ago

It also helps when those indexing American records are native English speakers — not the off shore cheap labor that ancestry.com has used — often leading to “unavailable” records if the names are transcribed incorrectly!
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Lori

17 years ago

Well Vicki, I hope you are at least helping to do the indexing. The more of us who do it, the faster it ALL will be available. It’s a mammoth job!
PS. Fun too!
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Jan

17 years ago

Only problem Vicki is that on ancestry.com you have to purchase a membership which can be quite expensive for some so this would be a good way for people who can’t afford a membership to be able to research the census’s available to them.
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Vicki

17 years ago

I”m kind of disappointed. Most of those are already available on ancestry.com. I would like to see what has been UNavailable online.