A reminder - Learn to index Italian Birth Records on Thursday, August 29th at the Stake Center.  The training meeting will be from 7 pm to  8:30 pm.  Come join in this great project.

 

The Rome Italy Temple is now under construction.

 

What a miracle to have a Temple built in Rome!

 

The work of the Lord is expanding throughout the world. 

 

Join this indexing effort and be a part of this great work!

The Citrus Heights Stake has been invited by the Family History Department of the Church to participate in a special indexing project.  We will be indexing Italian Birth records after 1875.  You do not need to read Italian to participate.   Each record will be indexed twice by indexers.  The arbitrators will all be fluent in Italian.

The Italian government has released 100 million civil records to the church for indexing purposes.  That equates to 500 million names to be indexed.  There will be a general training meeting on August 29^th at 7pm at the Stake Center for all who want help with these records.

Here is the web address for indexing instructions - click on web address or paste in your browser.
https://edge.fscdn.org/assets/img/italianAncestors/resources/ItalianIndexingGuideFinal-cef164ce19ff69e41e367144d78f2f07.pdf

 

Please join us in this great project!

 

 

 

1940 US Census Indexing is Complete!

We Did It!

The Parkcrest Ward Indexed 157,376 Records

We arbitrated 4623 Records

Grand Total:  161, 999 Records

Thanks to all who joined in the Indexing of the 1940 Census!

We really appreciate all the hours you spent in this great project.

Note from 1940 US Census Community Project… August 3, 2012

“We finished indexing and arbitrating the 1940 U.S. Census! And we did it in just 124 days. Fantastic! Thank you to every volunteer who contributed and did their very best to produce a high-quality index of the census for current and future generations to freely search.

It will take a few weeks to finish publishing the indexes for the remaining states. You can continue to watch the FamilySearch 1940 U.S. Census website to know when more states are made searchable name-by-name.

What's Next?

We're still working to make billions of additional records searchable for free online. Our next big indexing effort will focus on U.S. immigration and naturalization. To learn more, watch this video or visit the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization website.

To participate now, look for the US (Community Project) label on the Download Batch list. Check the Project Instructions and Field Help tabs within each batch to learn how to index the records accurately.”  

We are nearing our Goal of 150,000 Names Indexed!

Our ward has indexed 34,420 names of the 1940 Census in July. That brings our total to 141,651. That leaves us 8349 names to do in the next 10 days to achieve our goal of 150,000 names. There isn’t too much time left to index the 1940 Census as it is 93.16% indexed. We have 53 Parkcrest Members indexing. It is not too late to start! There will always be records to index but indexing the 1940 Census has been a special project. This project is going to be completed 2 months ahead of the schedule that the church projected when we all began indexing.
Thanks to all who have spent many hours indexing records.  What a great accomplishment. 

Over 10 Million Names in 24 hours!

 

Here is the report on our 5 million records challenge for July 2^nd.  Thanks to all of those who participated.  Our Parkcrest Ward Indexers have a total of 13,973 names for July so far!

“Amazing! We passed the 5 million records goal in less than 16 hours and just kept going! Thank you to the 46,091 indexers and arbitrators who participated in this historic event.”

Final Record Count:

 7,258,151 Indexed

 3,082,728 Arbitrated

 10,340,879 Total

The Indexing Report is in for June.  Our Ward indexed 107, 231 records.  My math was off last week so our total is down this week.  Sorry!
The 1940 Census is 75.5% completed.
The Church is asking all of us to do some extra indexing on July 2nd.  They are encouraging us to index 5 million records in 24 hours.  Our time starts here in Arizona at 5 pm on Sunday, July 1st.
Everyone is doing a great job!  Thanks for your efforts!

WOW! Our ward is doing great indexing the 1940 Census. For June we have indexed 27,945 records. That brings our total records indexed by our ward to 96,358. What a great accomplishment. Our goal is 150,000 names. The total indexing project is 70.47% complete. 
The church is asking us as a whole indexing group to index 5 million records on July 2nd.  The counting starts at 5 pm (GMT) on Sunday July 1st here in Arizona.
Thanks for your great work!