Familysearch Indexing of Digitized Films

Well, I guess that leaves us Mac-ers out.:( I just went online and
it's only for IEs. Marge:)
On Jan 28, 2007, at 10:26 PM, arturoramos wrote:

>
> In case you didn't know, the LDS project for digitizing films is going
> much faster than anyone expected. They have now begun projects where
> volunteers can extract documents online using special software that
> you can download. I did it tonight just to see what it was like and
> it is amazingly simple to do. It looks like it is mostly the 1900
> census for the moment. I think this has to do with the
> standardization of the documents which makes it possible for
> volunteers with minimal or no training to find the information and
> enter it correctly.
>
> I would love to see them put up an extraction project related to our
> research area! I have already written them to inquire about when this
> might be.
>
> If you get a chance and have some free space on your hard drive (the
> software is pretty large), try downloading the software and extracting
> a batch or two of the census... every little bit counts:
>
> http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/index.jsp