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

NEW HONEY BEE

WELCOME AS A NEW INDEXER IN MESA SOUTH STAKE

We are the Honey Bee Group  

A single honeybee does not gather a lot of nectar all by itself, but the cumulative effect of many Honey Bees actively gathering is huge.  Contributions of each active indexer (or Honey Bee) are important no matter how large or small.  

Pres. Johnson set a goal for The Mesa South Stake Honey Bees in 2016 as:

                    2,000,000 records completed in 2016

                              200 Active Honey Bees each month

(A Honey Bee is encouraged to index a minimum of 200 records per month, but the important thing is to index every month).

Listen to President Johnson's Testimony about indexing by clicking on this link:

President Johnson Testimony

Learn how to become an indexer by clicking this link:

Download the indexing program and get started

Or you can follow these instructions:

GROUP ADMINISTRATORS

Most of the wards in the Mesa South stake have a "Group Administrator" whose job is to encourage you, recruit and answer your questions.  Contact your Group Administrator when you have a question.  If you do not know who they are, contact your bishop or call the Stake Directors:

 Wallace Haws:  480-313-0169   Edith Haws 480-760-1034

GETTING STARTED

There is specific training for the new indexer at this location.  Click the following link:

Getting Started

It will look like the following.  Notice it will help you get started, give links to Help Articles, Language and Handwriting helps, a Tutorial, and FAQs.  Check it out!

"RECORDS and SETTING PERSONAL GOALS"

A monthly report is sent to the Stake Presidency and the bishops as to who is doing indexing service in the stake and the number of records completed.  "Records" completed not "Points" are reported on the reports given to your priesthood leaders.  You can also determine the number of records you have competed at any time.  The following video explains how to Set Goals and how to share a batch with someone so you can ask questions as you are working on a batch.

INDEXING TIPS and TRICKS

February 2016 Indexing report

We are very grateful to all the Honey Bees who took time to index during the month of February.  Please take time to review the report that follows and  to watch the HONEY BEE HIGHLIGHT that follows the reports.

Total # Honey Bees by Ward

Total # Records completed by ward

Graph of Stake Progress

We need everyone to do at least one batch during the month to reach our goal of 200 Honey Bees every month.  If 200 people would index every month, it would be within our reach to index 2,000,000 records in a year.

It was our pleasure to interview one of the top indexers in the Mesa South Stake, Millie Smith of the Dana Ward.  Please enjoy her highlight below.