When the 1940 US Community Census Project was announced, I wondered if I’d even take the time to participate. However, I quickly realized this would be a great opportunity to become more familiar with the FamilySearch Indexing software and give back at the same time.
Soon after signing up, I decided to go ahead and coordinate an indexing group on behalf of the TNGenWeb.
I wondered if people would sign up, and sure enough, they did! While I would have been happy with just a handful, we had more than 50 people sign up to index and arbitrate for the TNGenWeb. Wow.
I’ve blogged about our group’s efforts on the TNGenWeb blog and am hopeful we can keep the volunteers engaged as we move on to additional indexing projects, both with FamilySearch and internal to the TNGenWeb. I am so happy to have been part of this effort :-).