A Family of Indexers

This is a cool story from familysearch about a family in Guatemala that indexes together. We have a couple families in Shiloh ward like that. Robin's family, Jane's family, Beth's family, Amy's family, etc. Karrie J's family learned for FHE and have been doing great things. It warms the cockles of my heart. I'm thinking about having a contest: Family v. Family in March. And each head family can recruit people to their teams.... sounds fun.

I spent a long time last night getting the numbers ready for the bulletin before I realized it is Stake Conference on Sunday. I hate being stupid.

So here's Feb's numbers so far:

February Total 11,697  +3192arb

Donnie L 2976

Neil J         2800 +268arb
Amy G         1279 +2078arb

Joann S         818

Richard H 599 +806

Robin B   571 + 40
Scott G   536
Thomas S   367

Beth M    331

Ken J       150

Karry g    149

Shawn K   125

Shelby S  125
Karrie J  110

Sarah M  90

Joseph M  75

Jane H  75

Bruce B   50

Jaymeson S  50

Tim J        50
Vivian G  50

Amanda H  50

Jonathan S  36
Carol B          35
Keith S     25 

Larry W   25

Eleanor J  10

Industrial School?

I just indexed a ship in the 1871 census that stated it was part of the Industrial Schools Act of 1866. There was a captain, his sons (9 and 9mo, respectively) and then about 12 boys ranging in age from 12-15. I had to look it up and it turns out there were a bunch of "schools" set up like this where orphans, neglected kids and others were sent to get an education and learn a trade.

Huh. Interesting. I love indexing.

New Year, New Goal

Shiloh -

Let's try for 750,000 overall total this year. Pre-paying treats last week seemed to have paid off - an entire family signed up and started working. Karrie has done almost 700 since Sunday! Hooray for the J family - especially since 3 of the 4 are in YW.

Here we are so far:

7684 total

Robin B      2066

Neil J      1030 

Bruce B        950

Karrie J         686 (NEW INDEXER!!)

Beth M        612

Joann S        609

Shelby S        501

Shawn K       225

Caroline M 208

Sarah M       142

Jessica J       128 (NEW INDEXER!!)

Scott G          82

Karen P  75

Joshua W      75

Rock J            55 (NEW INDEXER!!)

Katelyn M     50

Kailey J          50 (NEW INDEXER!!)

Carol B          45

Vivian G  30

Micaela G     25

Eric M              25

Amanda H 15