End of Year Report 2010

2010 Goal was 250,00

End of the year Stake

Indexing Report

WE DID IT !!!!!

Congratulations to everyone.

Total Names Indexed by OKC Stake Indexers was 258,920

I appoligize for positng these results so late. We had a very busy holiday season with family, and I am just getting back to normal. This year I will try to keep you updated on some great tips that might help you with your indexing problems. If you look on the right side of this blog page you will see that I have added some great links that may of be help to you also. Please try to click on them and check out what they have to offer. I may add more as I find some that may be of interest to all indexers. Please leave comments or questions at the bottom of the blog, or send me an email.

Ward or Branch yearly totals are:

Clinton Ward 23,731 - Indexed ; 0 - Arbitrated

Edmond First 21,053 - Indexed; 4,101 - Arbitrated

Edmond Second 9,410 - Indexed; 1312 - Arbitrated

OKC Fifth Ward 19,538 - Indexed; 0 - Arbitrated

OKC First Ward 74,956 - Indexed; 11,332 - Arbitrated

OKC Fourth Branch 15 - Indexed; 0 - Arbitrated

OKC Third Ward 29,111 - Indexed; 6391 - Arbitrated

OKC University Ward 1,487 - Indexed; 0 - Arbitrated

Quail Creek Ward 35,381 - Indexed; 1,621 - Arbitrated

Village Ward 38,914 - Indexed; 3,449 - Arbitrated

Woodward Branch 3956 - Indexed; 0 - Arbitrated

Contributors that Moved 1,214 -Indexed; 0 -Arbitrated

Thank You to Everyone who even indexed one name. We could not do it without your efforts. You all did a really GREAT job.

Let's keep up the good work so that we can make our new Stake Goal for 2011 of

500,000 names

Stake Statistics for November

November Indexing was GREAT !!

We indexed 40,498 names and arbitrated 8335 names



Thanks to all the Indexers in our Stake

The Stake Cum total for the year is 231,984 names indexed only 20,000 to go for the year!!!

Ward Indexing activity in November:


Clinton = 6535 names indexed, Great Work!

Edmond First Ward = 3695 names indexed 1000 names arbitrated

Edmond Second Ward = 1323 names indexed, 167 names arbitrated

OKC Fifth Ward = 4149 names indexed

OKC First Ward = 8629 names indexed, 1885 names arbitrated

OKC Third Ward = 4806 names indexed, 3401 names arbitrated

OKC 4th Branch = 15 nanes indexed

Stake Temple day (seperate account) = 146 names indexed

Quail Creek Ward = 3786 names indexed

Village Ward = 6731 names indexed, 1882 names arbitrated

OKC University Ward = 683 names indexed

To Reach our Stake goal of 250,000 names this year we need to index approximately 20,000 more names in December.

Welcome

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WELCOME TO ALL NEW INDEXERS

Fourteen members of the Oklahoma City Stake signed up in October to become indexers.

I am now receiving an email from SLC each time someone new signs up.

I would like to welcome all of you, and challenge you to set a goal for each month. Once you set your goal the computer will automatically give you an accumulative count of the names you have completed with each batch you submit.

It helps to have a goal, no matter how big or small it is, to encourage you to consistently work on indexing. The key word being consistently! A new indexer might try 200 names a month. that would be equal to 5 , 1930 census batches, which are beginning batches.

We appreciate any and all that you can do to further the work of the Lord in the Oklahoma City Stake. It appears that our Stake is one of the top 5 Stakes in the North Texas, Oklahoma, Southwest Missouri and Eastern Arkansas area, which includes 34 Stakes. We are number two in indexing this year, in this area as reported by Brother Kirk Hathaway, area regional Family History Advisor. The number one Stake has indexed 415,576 names as of Nov. 1, 2010.

As of November 1, 2010 we have 175 indexers in the Stake, but only 59 of those indexers contributed any names in October. What can we do to encourage members of our Stake, who are already signed up, to consistently work at indexing?

NEW INDEXERS IN OCTOBER ARE:

Maria Guadalupe Villarreal

Christine Murphy

Michael Robert Prescott

Evelyn K Aquino

Edwin Santos Seda

Gretchen E Bowman

Benjamin Bowman

Marcos Aquino

Felisha Lynn Coltrin

Katrina Marie Hansen

Comesha Dinaelle Contee

Melissa Lyon

Sherrie Lynn Furber

Megan Dawnelle Talbot

October Statistics

October Stake Statistics

The Oklahoma City Stake has completed

191,689 names YTD

Congratulations to all Indexers

For a Great Effort !!

To Reach our year-end goal of 250,000 names

we need to do 58,311 names before Jan 1, 2011

I know that we can do it.

Statistics by Ward

Clinton = 930 names , 4 indexers, 0 redo batches

Edmond First= 3970 names, 5 indexers, 18 redo batches

Edmond Second= 858 names, 4 indexers, 0 redo batches

OKC First = 9380 names,16 indexers, 3 redo batches

OKC Fifth = 3812 names, 3 indexers, 0 redo batches

OKC Third = 2556 names, 3 indexers, 6 redo batches

OKC University =1 name, 1 indexer, 0 redo batches

Quail Creek = 6494 names, 10 indexers, 8 redo batches

Village = 7863 names, 11 indexers, 1 redo batches

Woodward Branch = 212 names, 2 indexers, o redo batches

ARBITRATIONS = 3068 names, 5 arbitrators

September Statistics

FANTASTIC SEPTEMBER STAKE STATISTICS

What a great indexing job this month,

thank you to everyone for all of your efforts!!

Stake September Total = 52,625 names

Stake Cumulative YTD = 155,919 names indexed and

11,365 names arbitrated

September Ward Totals

• Clinton Ward - 1490 names
• Edmond First Ward - 4363 names
• Edmond Second Ward - 1001 names
• Oklahoma City Fifth Ward - 2043 names
• Oklahoma City First Ward - 15818 names
• Oklahoma City Third Ward - 4875 names
• OKC University Ward - 153 names
• Quail Creek Ward - 15599 names
• Village Ward - 6142 names

RE-DO BATCHES

The Question was Asked:

What is a Re-Do Batch?

When you complete a batch and submit it another person will also do the same batch. The work of the two indexers will be compared, side by side, by a third person who is called an Arbitrator. This is done before the work is released to "Records Search" for the whole world to see.

The Arbitrator is the person who is sending back batch's that are not done correctly. The most common reason for an arbitrator to return a batch is because the work is not complete. If an indexer forgot one or two lines of data that isn't too bad because that could be fixed with little effort. But when most of the data is blank , then the batch is returned and someone else gets to "redo" that batch. Both batches would not go back, just the one with the missing data.The arbitrator has no idea who did either batch, or who will be getting the "redo" batch to work on later.

As an arbitrator I try to fix as many mistakes as I can, but we are told not to try to re- index the missing data when a large percentage of it is blank.

As Indexers the best thing way avoid getting your work sent back as a "Re-do" is to make sure you shrink the image to about 37% and move the image around to see both the left and right sides and all the way to the bottom before you start indexing. You may have to add lines to your work sheet at the bottom. Or on some of the marriage records you will find two marriages on one image, so you would have to set the number of "Records per Image" at 2.To do this you go to "Tools" at the top of your screen, click on "Records per Image" then change the number in the little box to the number that you need. You can add numbers, but you can't subtract numbers.

Some projects are set for a specific number of lines. Example: New Jersey State Census project is set at 47 lines per batch. What if there is only 10 lines with names written on the Image? Well you would enter the 10 names, and you mark the remaning 37 lines as "Blank". Each line must have something in it before you submit it.

The only way you will know if you have batches that are sent back would be if your Ward Indexing Specilaist, or I, would tell you what is happening. We will have no idea what batch it was, or what type of record it came from. There is help available to help you find out what may have been wrong. One thing we could do is "Share a Batch" with someone else to check your next batch before you submit it. Most times it is a simple misunderstanding on how to add lines to your work sheet. It is something that can be fixed. There is plenty of help available.

So if you are working on some new projects, be sure to read the project information and field helps. Be sure to move that image around so you see all of it. Then if you are still concerned about the directions please call me or email me, or call the Help desk in SLC for an explanation. It's toll free 1-866-406-1830.

Stake Indexing Statisticts

"It is tremendously significant to me that ....the foretelling of the Church's remarkable family history work occurred on the initial visit of Moroni to the boy Joseph Smith in 1823.......four years before he was allowed to take the plates from the hill, or before he received either the Aaronic or Melchizedek Priesthood, before he was baptized, and well before the Church was organized! It says much concerning the priority of this work in the plan of the Lord!"

Liahona, 1996 Gordon B Hinckley

Oklahoma City Stake Indexing Statistics for August 2010

August 38,191 names submitted 2171 names Arbitrated 25 batches to redo (not good)

Our cummlative for the year 102,793 !!!

CONGRATULATIONS WE DID IT

Statistics by ward:

Clinton 3018 names indexed

Edmond First - 2977 names indexed - 180 names arbitrated

Edmond Second - 2304 names indexed - 50 names arbitrated

Oklahoma City Fifth - 4353 names indexd

Oklahoma City First - 8177 names indexed - 1808 names arbitrated

Oklahoma City Third -6747 names indexed - 133 names arbitrated

University Ward - 89 names indexed

Quail Creek - 2591 names indexed

Village Ward - 7807 names indexed

Woodward Branch - 128 names indexed

THE TOP TEN INDEXERS THIS MONTH

Susan Crane - Village Ward - 6175

Gene Bushman - OKC 3rd Ward - 4235

Scott Foulger - OKC 5th ward - 4155

Lois Gilbert - OKC 1st Ward - 3105

Wilma White - OKC 1st Ward - 2185

Bobby Gilliland - Clinton ward - 1739

Gary Howell -Edmond 2nd Ward -1606

Shirley Corrigan - OKC 3rd Ward - 1588

Virginia Butler - Edmond 1st Ward - 1216

Barry Peterson - OKC 1st Ward - 1018

Great Work - let's keep up our pace and aim for 250,000 by the end of the year !!

Thank you all so very much