Indexing News and Links

Two important posts at the FamilySearch Blog today on indexing.

Indexing Coming to Tablets

The first post is about the future of indexing on tablets. When the new web version of FamilySearch Indexing is released later this year you'll be able to do indexing on your tablet. The article also discusses that fact that SmartPhones won't be supported because of the tiny screen size that will make it nearly impossible to effectively index. Read the whole blog post:  New Indexing Program: Tablet Support and the New Learning Experience

Are You Ready to Try Indexing Intermediate Projects?

The second post is about the challenge of providing "beginner level" indexing projects to the ever increasing population of indexers. I've seen this problem firsthand as many of the indexers I serve are beginners. There are so many beginners that beginning indexing projects are quickly taken and often beginners aren't comfortable trying intermediate level projects.

One thing I have learned about the labels "beginner" and "intermediate" is that they aren't always an appropriate label for the records. Because there are so many variables that make a project easy or difficult, often the project is a mix of records that are easy and some that are difficult. For example, some pages of a census record may be recorded by someone with very hard to read handwriting while other pages are very easy to read. So, is the project a beginner level project or an intermediate level. Or there are the obituary projects that are mostly typewritten, but the number of rules and the complexity of many obituaries make them more challenging to index. You get the picture. Read the blog post here:
Am I Really a Beginning Indexer?