What is FamilySearch Indexing?

Indexing involves participants viewing digitally scanned documents, keying in important genealogical details, and thereby making these records searchable on FamilySearch. People can then quickly access these documents to find their ancestors and more easily build their family tree.

How to Participate in the Ten Batches Indexing Challenge

• Connect to the https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/.
• You will need to open a free FamilySearch.org account if you don’t already have one.
• Children under the age of 13 need parental approval (or to use their parent’s account.)
• Open FamilySearch, click on “Indexing” in the top tool bar, click on “Find a Project” from the dropdown menu, click on a country or region or click on “Projects” and English” and then select a project and follow the instructions for that project.
• Index ten (10) batches.
• After you have completed each batch, report that batch to your Ward Temple and Family History Leader.

Indexing Training

Several resources can help you learn how to index prior to the challenge:
• The Family History Guide: Indexing https://www.thefhguide.com/project-5-indexing.html
• Your Ward Temple and Family History Consultants will be glad to help you learn how to Index.

The blessings which come to you from doing temple and family history work, including indexing, are great. Among these blessings are the promises from the prophets that we will have more closeness and joy in our families, that our testimony of the Savior will become deep and abiding, that we will have increased protection from the temptations and the ills of this world and be protected against the intensifying influence of the Adversary, and that we will find joy and be blessed in every aspect of our lives.