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FamilySearch Indexing, The Numbers Game

This is one of those times where the numbers seem overwhelming, FamilySearch Indexing Not Keeping Up:

“Do the math,” Jake said. FamilySearch captures about 150 million images in the field each year. FamilySearch is also scanning the microfilm out of the Granite Mountain Record Vault. This year FamilySearch expects to scan about 300 million images. On average there are four to five records per image. That amounts to about 2 billion records digitized just this year. And Jake expects to have the same amount next year. But we are only indexing about 250 million per year. That’s only 12% of the records “brought in the door.”

At the current rate it will take 8 years to index the images generated this year.

If you want to help close that gap the familysearch.org indexing program is open to anyone.

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