Dear Parkcrest Ward Members,

Our ward members have been busy Indexing the 1940 Census. So far this month we have indexed 17,221 records. Our total for April was 23,888. We have 40 ward members that are participating in Indexing the 1940 Census. Bishop Holt would love to have all of the ward members indexing at least 2 batches per week. A batch is 40 names. It is exciting to see the names of families listed on the 1940 Census. Many of them are waiting for living family members to locate their information and complete their temple work for them. We can help in this great family history project.

The Indexing of the 1940 Census is 35.2% complete. You can check out the progress of the Church’s indexing effort on this website. https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/ There are 6 states that have their indexing complete and you can now search them for your family members.

Please check the Indexing report list by the bishops office to be sure your indexing efforts are being recorded for our ward. Our Parkcrest Ward indexing blog has 2 videos to help you get started indexing as well as reports on our ward progress on our indexing efforts. http://parkcrestwardindexing.blogspot.com/

Please join us in our efforts to complete indexing of the 1940 Census.

Thank you for your indexing efforts! We really appreciate all you have done.

Pat and Judy Naughton