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By arturoramos | Sun, 2007-01-28 21:26

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

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margeval

18 years 3 months ago

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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

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