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Indiana Marriage Indexing Project
(1790-1957)

FlashOver 510,000 records indexed so farFlash

PROJECT STATISTICS (FIRST 12 MONTHS):

PERIOD NUMBER OF ACTIVE INDEXERS NUMBER OF RECORDS INDEXED AVERAGE RECORDS PER INDEXER AVERAGE RECORDS INDEXED PER DAY NUMBER OF ARBITRATORS NUMBER OF RECORDS ARBITRATED AVERAGE RECORDS PER ARBRITRATOR TOTAL RECORDS ARBITRATED
DEC. 2006 5 1,063 213 106 1 31 31 3%
JAN. 2007 52 9,117 175 294 5 2,019 404 22%
FEB. 2007 219 29,363 134 1,049 20 11,575 579 39%
MAR. 2007 193 71,238 369 2,298 23 20,580 895 29%
APR. 2007 176 77,147 438 2,572 28 28,467 1,017 37%
MAY 2007 154 76,192 495 2,458 38 66,226 1,743 87%
JUNE 2007 134 41,554 310 1,385 32 20,784 650 50%
JULY 2007 121 36,997 306 1,193 22 18,328 833 50%
AUG. 2007 116 26,144 225 843 23 12,299 535 47%
SEPT. 2007 109 21,539 198 718 20 9,505 475 44%
OCT. 2007 97 18,778 194 606 17 7,266 427 39%
NOV. 2007 101 19,283 191 643 17 6,815 401 35%
DEC. 2007 86 16,867 196 562 19 7,363 388 44%
TOTALS:   445,282       211,258   47%

PROJECT ROLL OF HONOR:

Over 20,000 Records Indexed:

Harold Martin of Melbourne, Florida
Sheryl Porter of Monmouth, Illinois
Robert E. Van Lue of Rochester, Indiana

Over 20,000 Records Arbitrated:

Dan Elliott of Mount Vernon, Indiana
Clara J. Whan of Avilla, Indiana
Nancy Brower of Oroville, California

Over 10,000 Records Indexed:

Clara J. Whan of Avilla, Indiana
Jane Chamberlain of Bloomfield, Indiana
Bea Barton of Washington, Utah
Justina Cook of Nampa, Idaho
Mary Sallee of Mesa, Arizona
Darlene Shuart of Monroe, Washington
Michelle Golden of Roy, Washington
Teresa Taramasso of Graham, Texas
Linda Harney of Huntington, Indiana
Carolyn Lowe of Knoxville, Tennessee

Over 10,000 Records Arbitrated:

Bernie Cinkoske of Indianapolis, Indiana
Ronald Chard of Ocala, Florida
Justina Cook of Nampa, Idaho

Over 5,000 Records Indexed:

Patricia Hodges of Stacy, Minnesota
Cindy Fuller of West Lafayette, Indiana
Robert McKillip of Rocky Mount, Virginia
Evelyn D. City of Clinton, Indiana
William Stevens of West Point, Utah
Walter Caplinger of Kansas City, Missouri
Mary Stewart of Muncie, Indiana
Sandra Wincek of New Berlin, Wisconsin
Ronald R. Hall of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Barbara Scott of Sunnyvale, California
Karen Creamer of Connersville, Indiana
Martha Roll of Rockford, Illinois

Over 5,000 Records Arbitrated:

Lori White of Windsor, Colorado
Michelle Golden of Roy, Washington
Ann C. Richardson of Woods Cross, Utah
Larry Munden of Houston, Texas
Robert McKillip of Rocky Mount, Virginia
Jennifer Cruse of Terre Haute, Indiana


The Indiana Marriage Indexing Project is a joint project of the Indiana Genealogical Society and the Genealogical Society of Utah (representing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). The aim is to create a statewide marriage index that begins with each Indiana county's earliest surviving records and goes up to 1957. When finished, the index will be put online as a free searchable database, accessible to all.

Indexers work from home and at their own pace. They login to the indexing site (http://www.familysearchindexing.org) with their username and password, and download a batch of marriage records, which take just 30-45 minutes to index.

If you have...

  • A computer running Windows XP
  • An Internet connection (broadband is recommended due to the large size of the files)
  • An Internet browser (up-to-date versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Netscape)
  • 30-45 minutes to spare (that's all the time you need to complete a batch of records)

...you can help!

Screenshots of the indexing software:

Screen capture from Marriage Indexing Project   Screen capture from Marriage Indexing Project
(click to enlarge)

Questions?

Contact coordinator Shirley Richison Fields--e-mail indexing@indgensoc.org, or phone (317) 209-9637. Let her know if your organization would be interested in a live demonstration of the indexing process--we'll let you know our availability in your area.

To sign up to do indexing, just fill out this form. The Genealogical Society of Utah will then send you a separate e-mail containing your user name and temporary password.
NOTE: If you do not receive an e-mail from them within 3-4 days of signing up, please contact Shirley Richison Fields (indexing@indgensoc.org)

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