June Indexing Challenge Month

Jordan North 1st Ward - Salt Lake Jordan North Stake

June Indexing Challenge

Indexing Blessings

Above link goes to a blog on familysearch.org

Top 4 Reasons given to not index and why they shouldn't stop you.

Sweeten the Sabbath with Family History

Above link goes to an article in August 2017 Ensign

Prophets Urge Accuracy and Sourcing Presentation

Family Search Indexing

Click Here for Indexing Terms

Click Here for Inspiring Counsel and Stories

Click Here for Training Resouces Page

Web Indexing Program Videos and PDFs

Training Resouces and Videos Link

Click Here for a guided tour of Web Indexing
Click Here for Starting to index (web) for the first time

Below Links are to PDF or Docx documents.

Basic Guide to Family Search Indexing
Indexing Terms 
Indexing Flyer Single Page
Web Indexing Handout 1
Web Indexing Handout 2
Click here to learn to change web indexing preferences
Deciphering Difficult Handwriting
Prophets Urge Accuracy and Sourcing Presentation


Below Videos are by Stephen Worley
Click for A Quick Tour of the Web Indexing Home Page

Click If you're having trouble getting to grips with duplicate images, here's a step by step explanation in this video:

and
Click Here For More Helpful Videos


Inspirational Articles and Hints

How redeeming the dead redeemed me.

Web Indexing

Easy one-click indexing access

Click here for instructions on creating a desktop icon

Suggested projects:

See our Adopted Projects!
Click and look toward the bottom left 
"Adopted Projects" on our Ward Page.


Set a goal to do 1000 records.
Once you've index 1000 records 
You may be a peer reviewer.
See Web indexing—Getting started with peer review


President Monson summed up the balance between faith and works as it pertains to family history very well with the following:

"The Lord expects you and me to perform our family history work well. I think the first thing we must do if we are to perform our work well is to have the Spirit of our Heavenly Father with us. When we live as righteously as we know how to live, He will open the way for the fulfillment of the blessings that so earnestly and diligently we seek.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. Therefore, we must plunge into this work, and we must prepare for some uphill climbing. This is not an easy task, but the Lord has placed it upon you, and He has placed it upon me." ("Hastening the Work:, June 2014 Ensign)

The Spirit is the most important thing, but we are counseled in D&C 9:7-8 that in order to receive the guidance of the Spirit, we must first “study it out in [our minds].” Former YW General President Ardeth Kapp (Deseret News, March 31, 2006) and former RS General President Bonnie Parkin (Church News, November 27, 2004) both used the phrase “good information makes for good inspiration.”

If we don't learn how to find records to verify information and relationships, correctly find and resolve duplicates, etc. (the "uphill climbing") it is difficult for the Spirit to teach us to "perform our family history work well."

 

Family History Hints & Tricks

Indexing Terms

Prophets Urge Accuracy and Sourcing Presentation

Deciphering Difficult Handwriting

Indexing -- More Than One Way to Enter Data

Research is done in cycle

Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS

Duplicates In a Family Tree Presentation

Indexing Records That Span Two Images

Demonstration on Moving and Resizing windows

Web Indexing Guide for US, Wisconsin—Birth Records 

Top 4 Reasons to not index and why they shouldn't stop you.

Return Unwanted Batches

Indexing Batches With Multiple Types of Records

Putting Documents as Sources in FS* Family Tree (FT)

Attaching FS Records to FT Using Source Linker

Putting Photos and Documents as Memories in FS Family Tree

Finding and Merging Duplicates in FS Family Tree

Fixing Relationships in FS Family Tree

*  Family Search (FS)

** Family Tree (FT)

For great inspirational information and articles.

 

Go to FSFamilyTreeGroup and Click See Menu and choose Inspiration to see the one you are looking for on FSFamilyTreeUserGroup.com

Thoughts
Let the Holy Spirit Guide

May Year To Date (YTD) Indexed 59,393 Reviewed 67,303 Total 126,696 records
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Jordan North 1st Ward Indexing Records Report

Monthly Statistics
January 2019 - Indexed 16,953 Reviewed 15,484 Total Records 32,437.

February 2019 - Indexed 15,150 Reviewed 13,465 Total Records 28,615

March 2019 - Indexed 12,287 Reviewed 18,212 Total Records 30,499.
April 2019 - Indexed 7,111 Reviewed 10,643 Total Records 17,754.
May 2019 - Indexed 7,892 Reviewed 9,499 Total Records 17,391.
 

Thank you for your hard work,