Saturday, February 25, 2012

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


Friday, January 27, 2012

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.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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