Wednesday, December 21, 2011
WE DID IT!!
Shiloh ward indexed our 500,000th name.
By my calculations, that's about 8,334 hours of work which is day and night for almost an entire year. (347 days). Go us. I couldn't be happier. It's even more amazing when people work so hard in the busiest month of the year. Merry Christmas to ME!
As for other milestones, NEIL J indexed his 50,000th name this month. (I did, too) And he arbitrated his 25,000th. WOW.
We have a couple new indexers: Karen P (the busiest of the busy) and Eric M. The M family is so good at contributing. Sandy S is new and has jumped right in as well. Shawn K just started last month as well and it's fun to watch him go. Some people really get the bug. I love it.
Here's our December Numbers (as of Wednesday night):
Neil J 6825 + 1446 arb.
Shelby S 1752
Scott G 1450
Joann S 720
Becky W 639
Caroline M 588
Robin B 538 +50 arb
Sienna S 500 (a very cute indexer)
Bruce B 375
Sarah M 275
Sandy S 269
Beth M 225
Shawn K 200
Vivian G 110
Ruth B 100
Rebecca B 100
Grant W 100
Eric M 54
Katelyn M 50
Shauna M 50
Carol B 35
Anonymous 25
Karen P 25
I'll blog our overall totals at the end of the year.
In other news:
I need to meet Marilyn K of Centralia. She hit 25,000 this month and she's the only one indexing in her ward. I have a prize for her. She did it without cookies, apples, candles or crying.
O'Fallon is at 1162 for December. Are you guys bored already?
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
today's #s
Shiloh
December Total: 2440
Neil J 582
Joann S 420
Scott G 400
Becky W 189
Robin B 162
Shelby S 149
Sarah M 125
Ruth B 100
Caroline M 75
Sandy S 53
Shawn K 53
Vivian G 50
Carol B 35
Shauna M 25
Katelyn M 25
We need 7,457 more to reach our goal! That's 325 a day until the 31st. Please! Pretty please?
O'Fallon
December Total: 731
Sarah P 363
Theresa P 300
Joel C 68
Friday, November 25, 2011
Numbers for the Bulletin
Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday numbers for the bulletin
2133 total
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Saturday night
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
I thought it was TUESDAY
O'Fallon #s:
Welcome Nearys! I only just met you but i already love you.
Sarah P 954
Peter N 362
Emma N 140
Merlin T 135
Theresa P 100
Katelyn Y 95
Mark P 88
April N 2
David R 1
Shiloh #s:
Shauna M 275
Katelyn M 135
Robin B 75 +51arb
Sarah M 75
Christine W 50
Shelby S 50
Carol B 27
Ruth B 25
Caroline M 25 +25arb
Vivian G 15
yw 500
rs 200 +76 arb
primary 50
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Sunday Numbers
O'Fallon Ward 975!
Sarah P 762
Theresa P 100
Mark P 88
Merlin T 25
Shiloh Ward 537 +51 arb.
Shauna M 200
Katelyn M 135
Robin B 75 +51 arb.
Shelby S 50
Sarah M 50
Carol B 27
YW 435
RS 102 +51arb.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Shiloh YW vs. ALL
That's right. The Shiloh YW have challenged the Priesthood, RS and Primary for the month of November. Non-winners will be signed up for church cleaning.
So far so good:
Katelyn M 90
Shauna M 50
Carol B 27
Sarah M 25
Welcome O'Fallon Ward!
I'm so excited to hear that the O'Fallon youth have joined the indexing cause. I know they are having a contest and so I will try my best to update this blog frequently so they can know where they stand.
So far it's just Sarah P but she is ON FIRE with 127 names in the last two days. Way to go, Sarah!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Overall Totals
483,554 indexed
133032 Priesthood
116708 Primary
114280 YW
101092 RS
70754 arbitrated
will i ever catch up?
August:
Total: 872
Shauna M 301
Sarah M 227
Vivian G 100
Scott G 90
Bishop L 50
Caroline M 40
Katelyn M 39
Bruce B 25
September:
Total: 1256
Neil J 600
Bruce B 126
Robin B 125
Sarah M 100
Scott G 90
Czar 50
Carol B 50
Beth M 50
Vivian G 40
Dale H 25
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sorry about my absence...
Here's July's numbers:
July total: 6896 + 1630 arb
Neil Jorgensen 1225 +102 arb
Dale Helfer 1121
Shauna Miller 1009 +1014 arb
Scott Gardner 900
Sarah Meldrom 879
Grant Wahlquist 558 (5,000 names!)
Beth M 448
Vivian G 175
Katelyn M 151
Lindsey G 139 (10,000 names!)
Carol B 85 (5,000 names!)
Donnette L 55 (10,000 names!)
Robin B 30
Deor J 30
Amanda H 25
Christine W 15
Laureen H 10
Caroline M 10 +81 arb
Bruce B 119 arb
Shelby S 231 arb
Ray F 50 arb
Richard H 30 arb
Bishop L got to 5,000 names last month!
Congrats to former ward member Krista Morrow for getting to 25,000 names! (I need your address, I have a prize for you!)
Monday, May 16, 2011
While the cat's away...
April Totals
46,788 indexed;
19,281 arbitrated
Shelby S 9454 + 250 arb.
Neil J 3812 + 10072 arb.
Donnette L 4743
Krista M 2751
Robin B 2345 +1350 arb. CONGRATS ON 25,000!!!
Scott G 2500 CONGRATS ON 10,000!
Shauna M 2000 +2151 arb.
Amy G 2150 arb.
Caroline M 1901 +2058 arb.
Cindy K 1850
Bishop L 1500
Grant W 1490
Peggy J 1300
Cara Sue D 1151
Sienna S 1150
Jaymeson S 1051
Anonymous 900
Bruce B 750 + 350 arb.
Ray F 700 +100 arb.
Abbey J 600
Christine W 550
Sarah J 540
Tim J 500
Johnathan S 500
Lindsey G 500
Vivian G 402
Laureen H 354
Beth M 350
Richard H 350 arb.
Sarah M 315
Jane H 300 +450 arb.
Alley J 250
Rebecca B 250
Abbie G 250
Amy C 250
Holly K 200
katelyn M 150
Carol B 100
Debbie P 100
Stephanie W 100
Eleanor J 50
Friday, April 15, 2011
Another Record-Breaking Month!
April total as of 4/15/2011: 34,223 indexed, 13,163 arbitrated.
- Neil J 3172 +8305 arb.
- Shelby S 7984
- Scott G 2500
- Donnette L 1922
- Cindy K 1700
- Caroline M 1501+858 arb.
- Amy G 1850 arb.
- Krista M 1801
- Grant W 1440
- Robin B1145 +200 arb.
- Shauna M 1100 + 1250 arb.
- Jaymeson S 1051
- Cara Sue D 701
- Peggy J 650
- Bishop L 600
- Anonymous 550
- Ray F 450 +100 arb.
- Abbey J 500
- Tim J 500
- Jonathan S 500
- Christine W 450
- Laureen H 354
- Vivian G 352
- Bruce B 350 +100 arb.
- Richard H 350 arb.
- Abbie G 250
- Amy C 250
- Alley J 250
- Lindsey G 250
- Rebecca B 250
- Beth M 200
- Sarah M 200
- Jane H 200 +150 arb.
- Katelyn M 150
- Holly K 150
- Stephanie W 100
- Carol B 100
- Debbie P 100
- Eleanor J 50
Welcome Waterloo!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Conference weekend was good to us!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
March Numbers
Abbey J 1850 -WHAT??!! WOW!! She just turned 12 a couple weeks ago!!
A Note for Neil J from FamilySearch:
Dear Neil,
You have reached a significant and rare milestone: the completion of your 1,000th batch with FamilySearch indexing. The completion of your 1,000th batch places you into an exclusive group of the top indexing volunteers. We want to thank you for your ongoing efforts and recognize this significant achievement.
Your efforts, combined with the efforts of other volunteers, have now made more than one billion records available online at FamilySearch.org, where they are accessed by people around the world who are searching for their ancestors. Each week dozens of these people send us messages of appreciation for your efforts.
We join these people in expressing our sincere appreciation for your efforts in reaching 1,000 completed indexing batches and recognize the significant contribution you are making to FamilySearch indexing.
Keep Up the Good Work!
You are providing valuable and meaningful service to people around the world who are seeking information about their ancestors. The continued success of this project depends on you and others like you who graciously give of their time and efforts. We celebrate your success and encourage you to continue in this important endeavor to make records more accessible online.
Thank You,
FamilySearch Indexing
from FamilySearch:
Thank you for your patience as we've worked to bring back the indexing system to full capacity since moving to our new data center. We've watched the indexing program closely over the last couple of weeks and made necessary adjustments. We now feel confident that it can handle all of the amazing work being done by the thousands of volunteers currently indexing and the thousands that may join us soon.
Over the next few weeks, we will continue to fine tune the system. We may occasionally take the system offline at 11:00 pm (MDT, GMT-6) to do this maintenance. We will try to give you as much notice as possible of when this may happen.
For those who are still seeing error messages, please see if one of the following solutions addresses your situation. If you have batches that you cannot open, return them and give them to other indexers, or allow them to expire. Feel free to download new batches at any time. If you cannot open the indexing program or download new batches, please uninstall the program and go tohttp://indexing.familysearch.org to download and install it once again.
We hope that you have seen the recent improvements and now feel confident telling others about the indexing program. Please share your love of indexing and encourage more people to join this initiative.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Asked and Answered, Your Honor
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Interesting Tip from FamilySearch
An alias is an assumed or additional name. AKA means “also known as” and indicates another name by which the person was known. Sometimes, the clerk might have used quotes or parentheses to indicate an alias or other name. To index a name that has one or more aliases or uses an AKA, type the word or between each name.
For example, if an individual’s name is listed as Joseph Broski AKA Joseph Browzowski AKA Jozef Brzozowski, you would type:
Given Name: Joseph or Jozef
Surname: Broski or Brozowski or Brzozowski
When the clerk appeared to have used quotes or parentheses to indicate an alias or other name, use the word "or" between the names, and type only the names.
For example, if the clerk wrote a name as John "Buck" Harrison, you would type:
Given Name: John or Buck
Surname: Harrison
The word "or" can also be used when two different names are given on a document, and you cannot determine which name is correct. For example, if the given name was written as Mary in one place on the document and as Marion in another place, both names, separated by "or," would be typed in the given name field.
Friday, March 25, 2011
For the Bulletin:
Shauna M 1700 +1712 arb. (3412)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Interesting indexing from Lindsey G
--i looked him up (on Google, of course). i'm pretty sure this has to be the same guy. Walter S. Gifford He was president of AT&T 1925-1948.
Anyway, it's kind of cool to find someone when you index and then be able to find something out about him.
His neighbor, stockbroker Benson B. Sloan, whose house is valued at $200,000, has a foot man who just came over from Scotland, and his name is Joseph Smith.
Harry B. Goldsmith is not a goldsmith, but I'm hard put to tell what he is. A manager of silks? A mudger of silks? A mayor of silks? something to do with silks. He lives on the same street, his house is valued at $100,000 and he has two cooks, a governess, two waitresses, two chambermaids, a parlormaid, a lady's maid and two kitchen maids, and they come from all over Europe--Finland, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, Germany, Scotland, England and Ireland. They problem have some serious issues with name confusion--Bertha Caro, Karin Osners, Ewa Kari, and Kare Nelson, all in the same house.
Wilbur Ward is fairly well off, even for a doctor--the occupation field says "physician". His house is valued at $165,000, but they only have two servants, a cook and a butler, both from Japan.
On the other end of town, where the rent runs between $58 and $110, there are two Hazel Browns on the same street, apparently no relation. There are also several men who work in a "loft building"--I'm assuming that's a skyscraper. Two of them are elevator operators. There is also a family, the Guy family, with two sons, Dennis and Harold, and four daughters named Lilliam, Violet, Daisy and Rosetta. I'm assuming the next girl will be Petunia. Or perhaps Marigold."
Utah Death Registers
Also, on a sad and awful note I found this as the cause of an infant's death: "Mother's overwork=premature birth/death". Poor mom. I bet the coroner told her that, too.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Scavenger Hunt Results!
Points:
Becky W 1965
Bruce B 907
Lindsey G 870
Shelby S 603
Sarah M 405
Katelyn M 352
AWESOME. Great Job. Here are some of the results:
45 divorces out of more than 10,000 names indexed. How many would it be now?
Interesting Occupations:
Special Agent
Looper
Paper Hanger
Pull Over
Beauty Operator
Corset Saleslady
Motion Picture Producer
Body Builder (Auto Plant)
Dumper of Flour
Mound Builder
Heel Cutter
Oyster Shucker
Highster
Hooker (Print Works)
Swelper
Doffer
Mangle Man (spooky)
Reed Drawing
Water Boy
Soda Dispenser
Ice Cream Packer
Trackman
Core Maker
Biggest Age Span Husband>Wife: 59 to 19.
Biggest Age Span Wife>Husband 41 to 31
Most Expensive Owned Home: $35,000
Cheapest Rent: $1.50/mo
Some of the Famous Names:
Richard Nixon, Richard Cromwell, George Lucas, Eddie Cooley, Emma Smith, Mitt Romney
Some of the Funny Names:
Daisy Ambush
Meta Barhanger
Eagle Wellington (delicious!)
Pansy Walker
Fanny Storer
Jewell Vest
M Violet Bear
Violet Wilt
Harry Spade
Czar Jorgen Jorgenson (Neil?)
Nels Nelson, Ole Olson, Carl Carlson
Hefty Goggin
Madonna Christian
Ak ak ak. Those made me laugh. How fun.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Luck of the Irish!
Total (wrong) 20,286
Indexers: (those with * are arbitrators as well, see their #s below)
Neil J 10,398 - This one is wrong.
Cindy K 1440
Shauna M 1350*
Scott G 907
Bruce B 780*
Christine W 580
Ray F 550*
Caroline M 500*
Tim J 450
Heather H 430
Shelby S 390*
Krista M 350
Lindsey G 340
Richard H 300*
Jane H 230*
carol B 200
Sarah M 150
Beth M 100
Robin B 100
Bishop L 100
Peggy J 100
Natalie E 100
Donnette L 90 - This one is wrong, too
Brenda R 72
Chloe T 58
Debbie P 50
Dan R 50
Vivian G 50
Larry W 40
Amanda H 31
Abbey J ??
Alley J ??
Arbitration: 3901
Shauna M 1359
Amy G 940
Richard H 550
Jane H 502
Shelby S 300
Ray F 100
Caroline M 100
Bruce B 50
Friday, March 4, 2011
March Forth!!!
February's Final #s
Caroline M 4693
Krista M 3900
Jane H 2848
Richard H 2800
Shelby S 2583
Lisa B 2280
Shauna M 2013
Peggy J 1550
Dale H 1050
Grant W 818
Katelyn M 744
Rebecca B 650
Amy C 550
Heather H 500
Eleanor J 250
Larry W 230
Vivian G 100
Jaymeson S 50
Jimmy K 50
Debbie P 50