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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Indexing Tips and Helps


Stake Family History Conference
Saturday March 12th, 2010
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Peddle on over

The Stake Family History and Indexing Directors will be holding an Internet Conference dealing with family history and Indexing. All Indexers in the Oklahoma City Stake should consider attending these classes.

The Family History classes will be presented through the Internet giving you the opportunity to learn from experienced national speakers. topics include: Genealogy Bootcamp and Genealogy Bank.Com; Research Logs; Journey Takers; Inferential Genealogy; and a live lecture by Cory Russell on Immigration and Naturalization.

Indexing classes will be taught by me in the High Council room starting at 11:00am . The first class will be "Tips on Indexing and Hand Writing Helps". The second class at 1:00pm will be about " Records Search: all those names we are indexing". All indexers should plan to attend these two classes. I think you can learn some new tricks to speed up your indexing skills.

The Conference is FREE, but pre- registration is necessary for logistical purposes. You may pick up a registration form at the Stake Family History Center or you may call Sister Waddle at 405-225-8700. A lunch may be ordered for the cost of $10.00 or you may bring your own. Conference registration begins at 8:30 am and the conference is over at 4:00 pm. You may attend as many classes as you desire.

TIPS FOR TODAY
If you are indexing the census records and you see some unusual terms in the Relationship field. Like adopted son, assistant pastor, or maybe nun. It is important that you type those terms actually as you see them in the relationship field, not in the title or terms field.
This information was not found in the Project Information page, or Field Helps, but I called the Help Desk at 1-866-406-1830 to verify what action to take.
You may call the help desk 24/7 when you have a question. That may be a good idea now that I am at work and not available to answer your calls during the day. You can still call me at night or email me and I will try to help you. If it is something that needs attention right away, call the Help Desk in SLC. It is a toll free call.

I have added a new link on my gadget list It will lead you to the Family Search Blog. It has interesting messages on it about genealogy. Also my daughter Elizabeth Miller has a blog page titled "Tripin Over Your Ancestors" and I have posted a link to her blog. Liz is getting a degree in Family History at BYU and her major area of interest is Spanish research. If you are interested in her research in Spain you can click on that link and read about her research experiences . She is going back there next week to do more research.
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