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'''The St George FamilySearch Center''' offers instruction and events involving indexing and arbitration.  Visitors can receive training on the new web based programs.  Mutli-lingual indexing  is also supported with special classes in Spanish.

Indexing, in General  FamilySearch indexing was introduced to the world with an article about it in the July, 2007 Ensign Magazine. Since that date many thousands of volunteers have indexed multiple millions of records such as census, birth, marriage, death, obituaries, city directories, court records and other records from the many countries of the world.  The result is that data has been made available to families to properly identify ancestors that otherwise would have remained 'lost' to them.  Briefly, here is how the process works: the indexer sits at a computer and calls up some record to be indexed.  Then an image of that record appears at the top of the screen.  This image is a photocopy of an actual record, such as a birth record.  It may be hand-written or typed, quite legible or not.  The indexer then types into a form at the bottom of the screen the names, dates, places that he or she sees.  When finished with a batch of records it is released to the system where it is compiled, then published to the world to aid in the discovery of our ancestors.  One should be aware that, once started and pursued for awhile, indexing becomes quite addicting.  Many indexers have indexed hundreds of thousands of records.  There is plenty of help at the St George FamilySearch Center for you to learn to be an indexer.