The Buzz Report---May 2016--Are you ready to SWARM !!!

We had a great month for indexing in the Mesa South Stake.  There were 99 active Honey Bees gathering nectar as well as some new indexer.

The Honey Bee Highlight of the month is Ruth Haws from the Lazona Ward:

=>  CLICK HERE

Here is a report for May:

Please encourage everyone to index.  Our most important goal is to have 200 active Honey Bees every month!

Leave a comment on the blog if you like!!!

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Look out!  We are getting ready to swarm!  Announcing a worldwide event.  Between July 15 and 17 we are going to have over 72,000 people complete at least one batch of indexing!

Get your family involved.  Organize a Young Women or Young Men group.  Let's swarm the hive!!

Ruth Haws of the Lazona Ward

Our highlight for the month is Ruth Haws from the Lazona Ward. 

Ruth indexes every day of the year, rain or shine.  She has a wonderful testimony of indexing---how it blesses the lives of others as it blesses her own life because of the feeling she gets knowing she is contributing in a positive way to a great work.

Listen to her testimony here.  CLICK HERE

Ruth has a 93% accuracy ratio and indexes Spanish records on a regular basis.

She has been indexing since the 1970's!  Things have really changed since then.

April 2016 Indexing Report: How many honey bees in a hive?

I tried to count the bees in my hive, but I only got to 3.  They all kept moving and look alike.

It is a lot easier to count the number of Honey Bees in the Mesa South Stake.  Our goal is to have 200 active Honey Bees per month in the Mesa South Stake.  Last month we had 97 Honey Bees.

What does it take to become a Mesa South Stake Honey Bee?

Ans:  Index at least one batch per month.  Every little bit of nectar helps!

Which ward indexed the most records in the month?

The wonderful work accomplished by the Mesa South Stake Honey Bees is greatly appreciated!

Please check on the post "CLOSING THE GAP"   click here

Closing the Gap--Introduction to Foreign Language Indexing

An impressive number of Records have been indexed.  See chart below.  

The LDS Church has 14,782,478 members worldwide, with 56 percent living outside the United States and Canada.  But far more records are available for members from English speaking countries than non-English speaking countries.

The purpose of this blog is to inspire you to consider indexing a language other than English,

even if you do not speak a foreign language.. 

HELP CLOSE THE GAP!

You can help close the gap:

      if you speak a foreign language

      served a mission in a foreign language 

      or even if you don't have any foreign language, but are willing to learn some very simple words.  For example if you were doing Spanish records---do you think you can learn?

      UNO  =  ONE

      DOS  = TWO

      Cemetario = cemetary

      Defunccion =  Death

Listen to Inspector General to see just how easy indexing in Spanish can be!

INSPECTOR GENERAL, LESSON #1

You will need some help to get started.  We hope to provide training on a ward by ward basis some time in the future.  But if you follow the steps out lined below, you can get started right away.

Step 1: Find a Spanish record to index.  Look for a beginning record.  For example:

Step 2:  Read the project instructions:  VERY IMPORTANT ! !

Step 3: Click "Help";  "Resource Guide";   "Indexer" to get Language and Handwriting Helps

You can also get to this point by clicking the link below.

Language and Handwriting Helps

Set your language preference and take the training.

Watch for additional help in the future!

March Indexing Report

This blog reports on all the great work accomplished by the Mesa South Stake HONEY BEES in the month of March 2016.

The following shows the sum total of the “Records” + “Arbitrated” by ward.

The following provides the total number of Honey Bees.  We had a major increase in the number of Honey Bees.  Much of this increase  is because of the hard work put in by the Solomon Ward Group Administrator, John Ogden and the great efforts put in by the Young Women of the Liahona 1 Ward. 

Please click on these links for the information indicated :

Honey Bee Highlight of the month;

You will not want to miss the Honey Bee Highlight of the month, the Young Women of Liahona 1 Ward and their Group Administrator, Berta Lujan.

Preferred Projects:  We invite those who would like to participate in a “Preferred Project” to click here for an explanation of what it is.

New Indexer:  If you are new to indexing or just need help click below:

Liahona 1st Ward

We are pleased to highlight the Young Women of the Liahona 1st Ward and Sister Berta Lujan, the Ward Indexing Director.

We give our special thanks to Shannon Lista, Nadia Morello and Shelem Romero, the adult Young Women Leaders who made this happen and for the constant help and testimony of Berta Lujan.

The Liahona 1 Young Women are participating in Family History by working on indexing in spite of the difficulties many have because they do not have computers in their home.

Preferred Projects

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has missionaries assigned all over the world to photograph vital statistic records that have value to family history research.  Some of these projects come as contracts between the Church and the Repository of the Records where there are specific time limit requirements.  The project is put on the "Preferred List" when the time limit is approaching and there is still a lot of work to be done.

The US Pennsylvania Marriage Records is one of those preferred projects.  The Mesa South Stake is not "adopting" a single project and you may work on any project that suits your circumstances and/or interests, but if you want to help with a preferred project, we invite you to help on the US Pennsylvania Marriage Records.

The following shows the current state of completion of this project.

The following is an example image of this project.

Not all of the images are handwritten.  Some are type written.  Follow these instructions to find the Preferred projects

Open and sign in to the indexing program as normal.Click on preferred projects and the US Pennsylvania—Marriage Records

It is very important to read the project instructions before you get started.

And always click on “Field Help” whenever you have specific questions about a particular field.

Any time you need personal help, call the Stake Indexing Directors or your Ward Index Director (if your ward has one) and ask to "SHARE A BATCH".

Click on the following link to watch a short video on how to share a batch.

                            LEARN HOW TO SHARE A BATCH