671. Worldwide Indexing Event Far Surpasses Goal with 116,475 Participants
This picture is of my husband Wayne D Eckman, in 1954, when he was in the Army, in Austria. He lived to be 85 1/2, and before he passed away this last February 21, 2016, he had 685,007 names indexed,and 73,006 names arbitrated Worldwide Indexing Event Far Surpasses Goal with 116,475 Participants July 20, 2016 By Angelyn Nelson Hutchinson, Family Search Blog If you spent part of your weekend participating in the worldwide indexing event, you were in good company. The event far surpassed its goal of 72,000 participants around the globe; a total of 116,475 individuals worked to make the world’s historical records available to those doing their family history work. These individuals indexed 10,447,887 records to add to the treasure trove of information available to family history researchers. That final number of participants exceeded the original target by 44,475 participants—a 61.8 percent increase over the original goal. “Grateful” was how Collin Smith, FamilySearch