INdexing 

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Indexing is essential to making
​the world's records searchable

FamilySearch indexing is a volunteer transcription effort that makes valuable genealogical records freely searchable online.  Since FamilySearch indexing began in 2006, this unprecedented crowdsourcing effort has produced more than one billion (and counting!) searchable records.

Hundreds of thousands of volunteer indexers have participated from around the world.  Through this selfless effort, millions of people worldwide have found information and discovered stories about their ancestors.   You can become a volunteer, today!  

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How
indexing
​works

why indexing
is vital to
​family history research