Here I Go Again - Indexin

I went to index tonight and found this message:

Because Mount Nebo Stake is the top-arbitrating stake in the world, Salt Lake has asked for our help with a short-term project. They are concerned about the accuracy of the household number in column 3 in record for Virginia and New Hampshire of the 1940 Census. Our stake arbitrators will have access to those two states until that project is finished. Download batches as an arbitrator, and you’ll get the message “this batch may have been partially arbitrated already. Check the previous arbitrator’s data and compete the arbitration.” When you open those batches, ONLY COLUMN 3 WILL NEED TO BE CHECKED. Make sure the number in the column is the order of visitation and not the house number or address, run quality check and you’re done!

Thank you so much. Keep up the good work!

Joyce Jensen, Stake Indexing Director

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I was so excited when I read this. If you are an arbitrator it is easier than indexing. I went in and did a few of the batches and within an hour there were no more arbitration lists for Virginia or New Hampshire.

I hate to get on my soap-box but if you need a spiritual experience please try indexing. I had an interesting experience day.

I have been helping two of my friends with genealogy. My friend Lyle Schultz in South Dakota (we met through Ancestry) has been look for information for her Nicholas Paulsen parents, Lyle's great grandfather. Lyle has been looking for these parents for thirty years. While I was indexing I had this moment when the thought came to me to go on ancestry and see if

Nicholas Paulsen's parents might have been added in the last few months. Lyle has been very sick and unable to do genealogy. Someone had entered the information. I was so excited I called her right away. She will still have some work to do in verifying the information but this would never have happened had I not been indexing.  

You have to be involved in this work to feel the spirits on the other side of the veil looking to us to find their names and do their temple work.

I still have another name I am looking for. My good friend, Leslie Borgquist has been looking for the parents of  Lewis Bentley Weaver born in 1851 in Tennessee. I constantly have this name on my mind and hope to find the information while I am on this mission. 

Again I tell you if you do not do well dealing with the living try looking for the dead. They want you to find them. 


I find myself indexing at the archives because only one person at a time can take pictures of the records. I index at night, study Spanish and read books on my kindle. Spanish is going to take my another year. The problem is we do not talk in that language at the archives and I need to be more exposed. Also I love reading. Bob and I decided to not get a television to watch at night. Most of the missionaries have TV. We decided we probably watched to much TV and read. I will save my books for another time.