March Numbers

It may be more than this - the day is young! 42 indexers this month - I think that's a new record.

March Total 46,908 + 16,672 arb. = 63,580!!!!! I need new words for awesome and amazing and wow. But that's how I feel.

Neil J 17,265 +8,051 arb. (25316)

Shauna M 2000 +2012 arb. (4012)

Tim J 3741

Shelby S 2376 +800 arb. (3176)

Cindy K 2880

Amy G 2190 arb.

Caroline M 1551 +600 arb. (2151)
Abbey J 1850 -WHAT??!! WOW!! She just turned 12 a couple weeks ago!!

Robin B 1200 +1467 arb. (1667)

Scott G 1438

Bruce B 1330 +50 arb. (1380)

Ray F 1150 +200 arb. (1350)

Krista M 1250

Christine W1126

Jane H 380 +652 (1032)

Lindsey G 990

Richard H 300 +650 arb. (950)

Larry W 732

Anonymous 601

Laureen H 502

Joseph L 500

Donnette L 500

Heather H 430

Carol B 400

Sarah M 398

Jonathan S 262

Natalie E 250

Peggy J 250

Beth M 200

Katelyn M 102

Lisa B 100

Abbie G 100

Debbie P 100

Ruth B 100

Cecil B 100

Amanda H 91

Brenda R 72

Chloe T 58

Vivian G 50

Holly K 50

Dan R 50

David G 30

Cara D 53

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.

Together we can make the world's records searchable online for free! A record indexed is a record found.

For questions or concerns, or to report issues that have not been resolve, please contact FamilySearch support.

Sincerely,
FamilySearch

Asked and Answered, Your Honor

I asked for help and you all responded! We indexed a couple thousand just today. Thank you so much. We need to do 6,358 by Friday if we can. After today, I think we can!

We hit 400,000 today!! Go us.

Shauna M and Neil J received their 25,000 bracelets today! Congrats.

Also, Neil J has passed me and is #1 King of Indexing. For now...

Interesting Tip from FamilySearch

Alias Names or Using "Or" to Separate Names

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.

So now you know.

For the Bulletin:

34 indexers this month!

March Total 30,369 + 5960 arb. = 36,329

Neil J 15053 +256 arb. (15309)
Shauna M 1700 +1712 arb. (3412)

Cindy K 2130

Amy G 1440 arb.

Caroline M 1001 +400 arb. (1400)

Shelby S 1046 +300 arb. (1346)

Ray F 1000 +200 arb. (1200)

Scott G 1107

Robin B 600 +500 arb. (1100)

Bruce B 880 +50 arb. (930)

Richard H 300 +600 arb. (900)

Lindsey G 890

Jane H 280 +502 arb. (782)

Christine W 680

Tim J 600

Heather H 430

Peggy J 250

Sarah M 250

Joseph L 250

Carol B 200

Beth M 100

Natalie E 100

Donnette L 90

Brenda R 72

Alley J 69

Amanda H 61

Abbey J 50

Debbie P 50

Vivian G 50

Dan R 50

Ruth B 50

Larry W 40

David G 30

Katelyn M 2

Interesting indexing from Lindsey G

"Walter S. Gifford is the president of some (company, i'm assuming) that i can't read. He is divorced with two sons and lives on East 65th Street in New York City in a house valued at $100,000. He has a governess, a cook, a laundress, a butler, whose name is David A. Arvidson--quite a combination--and the butler's wife, Ebba C. Arvidson, who is also the maid. They only just got married, apparently, since they are still the ages they were at their first marriage.
--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."

Awesome, Lindsey. This made me much happy. (She's a LAUREL!)

Utah Death Registers

These are my favorite so far! The causes of death are fascinating! I'm grateful to live in a time when premature babies live and people don't die of "chronic indigestion". The first one I did had a bunch of men who died in a mining explosion and so I googled it and found this: Scofield Mine Disaster in 1900 Was Utah's Worst Wow. It's a wonder that I dod anything else but this. Too fun. Look for them in the "intermediate" group.

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.

Scavenger Hunt Results!

Finally. Sorry about the delay. People kept telling me they would get me theirs. I gave up. There's some really interesting stuff out there. I thought it was really fun. We might have to do it again.

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.

Luck of the Irish!

To ye, indexers. I am sure that these numbers are still off and I'm wondering when Salt Lake is going to get this stuff settled. Please leave a comment or email me if your numbers are wrong so that I can correct them for the bulletin.

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

March Forth!!!

I know I spelled it wrong. It's the only day that is a command. March forth and index - even if it IS stake conference and I won't be there with treats. But I will be there. Find me and I'll give you a treat.

Total: 2651 + 1359 arb.

Shauna M 700 +709 arb.

Bruce B 350

Ray F 250

Cindy K 250

Jane H 250 arb.

Shelby S 250 arb.

Heather H 230

Krista M 200

Scott G 170

Amy G 150 arb.

Carol B 100

beth M 100

Chloe T 51 (NEW INDEXER!!!!!)

Richard H 50

Christine W 50

Debbie P 50

February's Final #s

If you add our arbitration to our indexing, we had our THIRD 50,000+ month in a row!

Here's the final numbers:

Neil J 8205

Amy G 150; 4850 arb.
Caroline M 4693
Krista M 3900
Jane H 2848
Richard H 2800
Shelby S 2583
Lisa B 2280
Shauna M 2013

Ray F 1850; 451 arb.
Peggy J 1550

Bruce B 1400

Cindy K 1342

Scott G 1100
Dale H 1050
Grant W 818

Carol B 750
Katelyn M 744
Rebecca B 650

Sarah M 612
Amy C 550

Beth M 508
Heather H 500

Randy H 450

Natalie E 300
Eleanor J 250
Larry W 230

Lindsey G 200

Donnette L 171 (NEW INDEXER!!!)

Dan R 111

Christine W 101
Vivian G 100

Robin B 100

David G 62 (NEW INDEXER!!!)
Jaymeson S 50
Jimmy K 50
Debbie P 50