LDS Indexing Volunteers

[Morganllan]

Hello

The LDS Site are looking for volunteers to transcribe records. Here's an extract from their indexing page:

YOU CAN HELP. No special skills or fixed time commitments are required. Volunteer when you can. Just register, sign in, and follow a simple process:
1.Select a “batch” of records to download to your computer.
2.Enter the requested information (names, dates, events, etc.) in the corresponding spaces.
3.Submit your completed index to the online system.

http://indexing.familysearch.org/newuser/nuhome.jsf?3.7.7

[BevL]

Is there some way you can request a certain country.   I am sure that if you were able to get the country of your birth, it would make it much easier to interpret the writing on these forms.
Kind regards
Bev

[maggbill]

There are different levels of transcribing "experience" - beginners, intermediate, and advanced, and within those levels there are selections of various countries/languages you might want to work on.  Obviously, LDS prioritises them - and there can be a lot of USA census etc., but again, there are always choices, and if something proves too difficult, you can return that particular batch - no problems.

My sister and I started volunteer transcribing just a couple of months ago - after a visit to a very helpful local LDS Family Search centre... 

Great fun to do, if you are at all interested in Genealogy - and so convenient, you can do them at any pace/time that suits you.

I recommend it!!  And my sister is even more addicted than me!