The Value of Indexing

June 26, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Value of Indexing

FamilySearch is a worldwide archive project provided free by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Recently they celebrated a milestone of mammoth proportions when they reached the one billion mark of historical records having been transferred from hand-written archives to online documents, much of this achieved by volunteers.

This encouraging information was found on Keighley News in their article, “Historic archive landmark reached by Keighley volunteers.” In the Keighley area in West Yorkshire, England, a group of volunteers spanning all ages spend several hours each month carrying out the indexing process. One of them, 18-year-old Ruth Henson, said:

“Indexing is my way of saying these names on an old document are not just names, but real people just like me. They deserve not to be forgotten. They deserve a legacy.”

Bravo, Ruth.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.