Worldwide Indexing Event

Challenge complete! 

The Church hosted a Worldwide Indexing Event with a goal to get 100,000 indexers to submit a batch.  About a week ago, Kasey came over and taught me how, and I successfully completed my first batch and submitted it at 11:57pm last night. The event ended at midnight. Phew, just in time! I live on the edge. ;)

I learned:

Indexing is not difficult. 

Indexing is fun! I've only worked on French Birth and Death records, so far, but it's interesting to me to know there  were like 5 Jeans or Maries born in March of 1837. 

Cursive is a lost art.

Neat writing is more important than we think. 

Indexing is addicting! 

I still need more practice before I will be confident to teach someone how, but I'm making a personal goal to pay it forward and teach someone else how to index. 

For now, I'm thankful to know a new skill, and excited to do something valuable. I'm not a genealogy superstar and currently don't devote much of my time to doing my genealogy, but indexing is something I can easily work on so that someone else can do theirs. 

I think the challenge ended with about 78,000 new batches done. I feel good knowing one of them was mine.