A Family Tapestry

  An entry posted this past Thursday by John Reid on his blog, Anglo-Celtic Connections , pointed out a change developing at FamilySearch.o...

  There's been a lot of talk lately about new versions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its latest incarnations, such as ChatGPT. But ...

  The fifties has been a decade inspiring nostalgia. Granted, the recent release of the 1950 U.S. Census has prompted part of the retro mani...

  Come this Sunday, it will have been a month since the April 1 release of the 1950 census. The digitized enumeration has already been revie...

  For the longest time, I set aside a regular time to volunteer as an indexer to make the digitized records at FamilySearch computer-searcha...

  It's been my habit every month to do my part to "give back" by volunteering to index digitized records at FamilySearch.org....

  With all the holiday trappings completely stowed for another year, and the shimmer of New Year's Day hopefulness already lost its lust...

  Usually, I try to spend one Saturday a month "giving back," as I call it, for all the helpful genealogical resources which volun...

  The air has gotten smoky enough, once again, that my brain is now starved for the sight of green skies and blue trees. No...no, that isn...

  Finally! It's back to indexing digitized documents again, and it feels so good to find something I can work on. Incredibly, I haven...

Who says a holiday can keep me from my regularly scheduled volunteer indexing? Last night, while waiting for nightfall to get here so we ...

Perhaps this stay-at-home order has inspired countless numbers of would-be indexers to find something productive to do. I'm not sure. A...

I'm back at digital volunteer work today. I'm still hoping that someday, I'll be sitting at my usual online indexing tasks and ...

Sometimes, it just helps to stop wrestling with frustratingly unyielding puzzles, and find something to scrape take one's mind off the...

Could an indexing project be as relaxing as mindlessly assembling a jigsaw puzzle? Depends. In my case, anything would be relaxing in comp...

It's time to add a little confetti to my holiday calendar—and take care of a monthly giving-back goal before that holiday calendar gets...

With all the different research projects I've been working on, and all the locations which they've taken me over the past month, I ...

I'm back to my old haunts once again, indexing New York City naturalization records at FamilySearch.org. Although I've been most re...

Every month, I try to set aside time to do some volunteer work on indexing digitized records which are part of the collection at FamilySea...

Another month flies by, and suddenly, it's time to do some volunteer indexing of records at FamilySearch.org . Sometimes, despite inten...