Hi everyone it's Helen Hotai here founder of Form Help and today we will be going into the family
search website and i'll show you how i go about doing reviewing and indexing. Let's get started,
type in family search and then click on the family search link, sign in
with your username and password or your church account, select indexing and then web indexing
Click on find batches and then you'll come to the screen here.
You can see here on the left there are different levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. I'll
go ahead and click on beginner and there are two sets of records for me to choose from.
I'm going to focus on the New Zealand electoral roles 1865 to 1957. This orange bar indicates that
99 percent of the indexing has been done, and you can see to the right of that the index box
is unhighlighted meaning there is no more indexing to be done there, however if you
look at the reviewing section you can see that it's highlighted and the bar also indicates
that only 60 percent of the work has been done, so we can go ahead and do some reviewing.
So let's go ahead and select review, this message is just saying that if the sex cannot
be determined then mark the field blank and then select ok. Next you'll be asked
whether this image should be indexed i'm going to place a check in the box
saying yes and then press next. So if we go to the top you will see that the information below
is ordered in a particular way, so above it says the name in full, the residence, the occupation or
edition and property qualification. So that's the order that the information below is in.
Now this record has already been indexed and the role of the reviewer is just to ensure that
the information on the left corresponds with the information on the right.
For example if we look at the first row, the surname is Anderson the given names are Jane
Barr and the sex in this example is blank, but i will go ahead and put "F" for female. If you
don't want to check each field as you go you can just go to the "I've verified every field"
option at the bottom and then press next and it will take you to your next entry.
Part of the reviewer's job is to also ensure that all the spelling is correct. So Anderson surname
correct, given names Janet Park is correct i can see that they have left the sex field blank, I'm
going to go ahead and change that to female and then i will verify all the fields and press enter,
and you just continue this pattern right up until the last name. Now we can see here the number 95,
so that means that there are 95 entries so 95 names for you to check through to ensure that
all the data has been inputted correctly. And you can see there your number 95 is Ayers or Ayers,
Florence Evelyn who is a spinster. Okay now we are going to look for batches that we can index
so we've just done, started these records here uh they're reviewing. but I want to show you how
to do some indexing so let's go have a look for some batches. Okay so you can see here under my
favorites is the Samoa vital records 1846 to 1996, we can see that 57 of these records have been
indexed and only 19 have been reviewed, so what we want to do, and see how both are highlighted,
meaning that they're both available for us to work on so i'm going to go ahead and do some indexing,
so this is a advanced project so i'm going to press ok,
now it's going to show up with some images and it's asking whether this image should be indexed,
it's a marriage certificate i will say yes and then selected yes for the next four
okay i'm going to enlarge it, okay so it's a marriage certificate, so press marriage,
now normally these these fields along here they can come in different orders. Because i've already
done this before i've put these fields in the order of these fields here, so the bridegroom's
name, his age, his father's name and his mother's name so i've put that in order just so that when i
start entering the information it's just easier for me to just follow along and just input it
otherwise you know some of these fields can be all the way down there and in the middle and yeah for
me anyway i just don't like it, i like it to be in an order that's easy for me to follow,
okay we'll start with the groom's name so it looks like his name is tiai, uh surname Lofonga
his age is 36. uh have a look at his father's name Lafonga so and then surname is
okay mother's name Senima and leo okay then we go to the bride's details so
bride's name is Siavalua, 28 and a father's name okay as Fatu bride's father's surname,
because there isn't one showing on there, i mean i could guess that you know it's
oh yeah okay no it's the same okay uh so bride's father's surname i'm going to put in blank
and then the bride's mother's given name
looks like is Foloie and surname Siaoloa and marriage place is Saleimoa and
the marriage date is
28th of april 1958 okay so that record is done i move to the next one. I then just repeated
the same process for the next four and when you come to your last one number five it will come up
with this message submit batch and you click submit to batch, and then you're all done.
see all that little confetti coming down it's celebrating that you've done a great
job. one more thing now if you have gotten out a batch that you've decided you don't want to do,
i will show you how you can return that batch. So go to your batches or my batches
and click on manage, and then click on the batch that you no longer want,
so in this case it's the US one so check that and then go to return one selected batch,
once that's done you will see that that batch has been returned back into the indexing pool
for someone else to work on. And if you're wondering what's the purpose of
indexing and reviewing is i will place a link in the description box below, now my basic
understanding of this project is that the records that are indexed and reviewed they then become
available and freely searchable online, meaning that the people searching their ancestry or the
genealogy they now have access to this information should they need it. Now uh family search indexing
began in 2006 so that's about 15 years ago and it's resulted in over 1 billion records made
available to search online and the beauty of the project is that volunteers like you and me from
all over the world are contributing toward even more records being available and searchable.
Hopefully you've found this video slash tutorial helpful uh please remember to like and subscribe,
this is Helen Hottai founder of form help signing out have a wonderful day!