Hi Fellow Listers,

Millions of fellow genealogy buffs search daily for their ancestors. Many of them, like ourselves cannot afford to use the pay sites but still need the help to break down their own brick walls! Free sites are wonderful but limited on resources. Here is one way we all can help ourselves & others at the same time. The Family Search Indexing Project.

You may already be aware that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has started a massive volunteer project to index millions of family history records. The indexed records are free to everyone. Volunteers have already indexed millions of names which are already searchable here:
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0

The project is off to a great start--but as you can imagine, the amount still left to do is staggering. And that's where we can help. If you have an internet connection and just 30 minutes a week, you can index names--you can do it any time of the day or night. You don't have to get dressed up--you can index in your pajamas if you want. "Oh ............. look at you!" LOL

Here is the indexing site where you can learn more and sign up if you want to: www.familysearchindexing.com

If you know of anyone else who might be interested, please feel free to pass this information on to them. If you have questions, please feel free to email me directly.

Wishing everyone a wonderful summer--

Gene