Family Search Indexing Project

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This is reposted from another list with permission. It captures my feelings exactly.
I am a fast typer and I did a page (50 lines) in about 20 minutes. Consider volunteering today. It will be great to get the Wisconsin Census online and available to the public for free.

Let me know if you are volunteering and I will keep track of how much the Wisconsin Volunteers contribute. Even if you only do one or two pages, every little bit helps. It doesn’t matter how long it takes you.
Occasionally I get emails asking “HOW CAN I VOLUNTEER WHEN I LIVE OUTSIDE OF WISCONSIN???” – here’s an exciting new project that is ALL DONE ONLINE and is available to ANYONE!! — you work at your own pace — and this will be a great asset for all genealogists and researchers world-wide. The project FamilySearch Indexing is FamilySearch Indexing: Preserving Our Heritage –there are different projects they are working on, the largest being the 1900 Federal Census, and you can pick the state — and yes, Wisconsin is available! It’s a very simple and straight-forward project. You download a sheet at a time and work at your own pace. When you get it finished, you click upload and it is sent in. Then you are ready for your next page… and eventually, the 1900 census will be done, one sheet at a time! Several years ago, I worked on the 1880 Federal Census and it was all done by hand and microfilm reader — this is not anything like it! THIS IS ACTUALLY FUN!!!! The free software is easily and quickly installed and you are off and running in about 10 minutes. The census sheets are viewable at the top of the page and the entrees are highlighted as you work them across the page — you can’t get lost! And there is a magnifier on the page tool bar that allows you to make the page LARGE so even tired, older eyes can do this. The fill-in-the-blank area is similar to Excel, meaning that you type the first letter in and it completes the entry from memory. Super easy to use and once the project is completed, it will be available on the familysearch.org site FREE for everyone, just like the 1880 census is… If you have ANY questions, email me and I’ll try to answer them!
How long does a census sheet take to do? I just did two of them this evening and they take about 30 - 35 minutes and I am not the world’s fastest typist! The program makes this so simple and easy!!!
Is this project open to ANYONE? Yes, ANYONE can be a volunteer to help with this project — you do not need to be a member of any organization, etc.