Another Record-Breaking Month!

April total as of 4/15/2011: 34,223 indexed, 13,163 arbitrated.

1. Neil J 3172 +8305 arb.
2. Shelby S 7984
3. Scott G 2500
4. Donnette L 1922
5. Cindy K 1700
6. Caroline M 1501+858 arb.
7. Amy G 1850 arb.
8. Krista M 1801
9. Grant W 1440
10. Robin B1145 +200 arb.
11. Shauna M 1100 + 1250 arb.
12. Jaymeson S 1051
13. Cara Sue D 701
14. Peggy J 650
15. Bishop L 600
16. Anonymous 550
17. Ray F 450 +100 arb.
18. Abbey J 500
19. Tim J 500
20. Jonathan S 500
21. Christine W 450
22. Laureen H 354
23. Vivian G 352
24. Bruce B 350 +100 arb.
25. Richard H 350 arb.
26. Abbie G 250
27. Amy C 250
28. Alley J 250
29. Lindsey G 250
30. Rebecca B 250
31. Beth M 200
32. Sarah M 200
33. Jane H 200 +150 arb.
34. Katelyn M 150
35. Holly K 150
36. Stephanie W 100
37. Carol B 100
38. Debbie P 100
39. Eleanor J 50

Of note: my mom, who got me started in all this craziness and who considers all of our ward's names her "grandnames" indexed her 150,000th name!

Welcome Waterloo!

I taught indexing to the Waterloo Branch last Sunday and was shocked by the turnout. There were more than 20 people there! Hooray for indexing! So I told them I'd start keeping their numbers here as well.

April so far: 303

Martin B 151

Richard H 102

Sue W 50

I know there were others who indexed and I'm not sure why their numbers haven't shown up for me yet. Make sure you use your LDS.org login and that your profile says "Waterloo". I'll watch for you. If you have trouble, email me.

Great start!

Conference weekend was good to us!

For the record, we did do better last month than I originally stated. We ended up indexing 50,422 names and arbitrating 16702! That might be a ward record - I'll have to check. Definitely a record for HOW MANY people indexed. We're only getting stronger!

As for April - this WILL be a record breaking month. We already have 18,776 indexed and 4769 arbitrated. Whoa. In four days. Miraculous. I started saturday morning and couldn't stop. Jaymeson even indexed about 1,000 names and he's not a fan! The Spirit of Elijah was working overtime.

Shelby S 6,953

Scott G 1,450

Caroline M 1251 +308a

Amy G 1300a

Cindy K 1250

Grant W 1,024

Jaymeson S 1,001

Krista M 851

Neil J 747 +2,561a

Donnette L 680

Tim J 500

Jonathan 500

Ray F 350

Richard H 300a

Cara Sue D 251 (NEW INDEXER!!!!)

Abbie G 250

Christine W 200

Beth M 200

Alley J 200

Shauna M 150 +150a

Laureen H 103

Anon 100

Abbey J 100

Jane H 100+100

Amy C 50

Debbie P 50

Sarah M 50

Robin B 15

March Final Numbers: ( I have to put these because there were some crazy numbers right on the 31st. I can't believe it.)

Neil J 17,265 +8051a

Shelby S 5026+800

Tim J 3991

Cindy K 2880

Shauna M 2000 +2012a

Amy G 2190a

Abbey J 1850 (Beehive - 1st month indexing. AMAZING!)

Caroline M 1551 +600a

Scott G 1488

Bruce B 1330 +50a

Krista M 1300

Robin B 1275+1497a

Ray F 1150 +200a

Christine W 1126

Lindsey G 990

Larry W 732

Anon 701

Donnette L 550

Sarah M 548

Laureen H 502

Bishop L 500

Heather H 430

Carol B 400

Jane H 380 +652a

natalie E 350

Richard H 300 +650a

Jonathan S 262

Peggy J 250

Beth M 200

Lisa B 150

Katelyn M 102

Abbie G 100

Debbie P 100

Ruth B 100

Cecil B 100

Amanda H 91

Brenda r 72

Chloe t 58

Cara Sue D 53

Vivian G 50

Holly K 50

Dan R 50

David G 30

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...