Today Family Search Indexing challenged all indexers and arbitrators world wide to attempt to index and arbitrate 5 million records in 24 hours! It was a lofty goal and achieving that number in one day has never been done before. It posed a challenge for me as it was a work day so my free time was limited but I got up early and arbitrated 40 records (1 batch) before setting off to work for the day. Tonight I did an additional 4 batches (160 records) which doesn't seem like very many but every little bit helps.
At the time of this posting here are the latest numbers from Family Search Indexing:
RECORD UPDATE
Indexed Records: 7,068,719
Arbitrated Records:3,011,615
TOTAL RECORDS: 10,080,334
UNBELIEVABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT!
It is so amazing to me to see how much can be accomplished by volunteers who just each contribute a few minutes of their spare time to move this great work forward.
If you are reading this post and are not part of the indexing team, give me a call and I will help you get involved or you can go to https://familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing/ to get started today! A word of warning--indexing is very addictive and contagious!
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