Free Irish BMD Indexes...if you volunteer to transcribe

PaulaD · Post by **PaulaD** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:19 pm

After what seems like years of doing various US census full of very odd German and Swedish names its a blessed relief to find names you actually know

I find it quite relaxing after a hard days work and you never know if you might find one of your own rellies.

Paula

scotmum · Post by **scotmum** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:19 pm

... hope all is well with those transcribing. I have now managed about 3 or 4 pages of the Irish records.

Post by **Anne H** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:07 pm

Hi Scotmum,

I've only managed about two pages of Irish records and one of the Wisconsin census. I seem to have a problem with my eyes when doing the transcribing and sometimes, I can't see the "highlight"...end up with "zigzags" and a bad headache

but I will plod on

Regards,
Anne H

scotmum · Post by **scotmum** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:38 pm

What colour highlight are you using? I am finding a light blue colour very clear and helpful.

Post by **Anne H** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:30 am

I was using the light blue but I found it disappearing into thin air against the rather greyish background of the page.

Regards,
Anne H

crayspond · Post by **crayspond** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:50 am

Hi,
I also have managed a few pages of the irish death indexes of 1897. Quite sad when you see the wee babies oyears alongside the mother

obviously died in childbirth. I have a wee think about them when i am typing the names.
It also makes you more careful about numbers that you are not sure about - i leave them blank and let the LDS decide the correct number. As we know how important it is to researchers.

Still it will help us all in the end.

Ailsa

scotmum · Post by **scotmum** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:35 am

crayspond wrote:Hi,
I also have managed a few pages of the irish death indexes of 1897. Quite sad when you see the wee babies oyears alongside the mother obviously died in childbirth. I have a wee think about them when i am typing the names.

Ailsa

I know what you mean and after doing one as my first indexing, I then swapped over to Biths, but after doing two or three, when I went to download next birth index, they were no longer available on the list - mind you, maybe this means they are all finished - so I went back to the Death indexes.

Kate B · Post by **Kate B** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:27 pm

Having done quite a bit of indexing for this project, I'm beginning to wonder.....

Where does the indexed nformation go?

Does it go to the LDS/IGI so making it available for free to anyone? Or does it go to e.g. Ancestry, a subscription site?

I don't mind doing it, but if its going to a subscription site only, then I'm going on strike!

BarbR · Post by **BarbR** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:48 pm

Hi Kate,
This is what it says on the site:

Publishing Results
When the information indexed by volunteers is ready for publication, it will be made available FREE OF CHARGE through familysearch.org. Some of these indexes will be posted by our partnering societies. Come and enjoy helping us build these valuable genealogical resources by becoming a volunteer now.

So doesn't sound to me like a subscription will be needed.

Barbara

theKiwi · Post by **theKiwi** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:15 pm

And just to clarify on this a little, since our genealogy society is setting up a project through the FamilySearchIndexing.org site...

At the time of set up of a project, you have the option to choose to also publish it yourself if it's a project of limited or local relevance.

So we'll use the FamilySearchIndexing technology to have them scan the films, and present them through their indexing interface for our volunteers to work on, and when it's all done in addition to the records becoming available through the familysearch.org web site, we'll get a copy of the index to use on our site also.

http://data.wmgs.org/

is the database driven website I run for the Western Michigan Genealogical Society - currently we have over 1.5 million records searchable online.

Cheers

Roger