I looked at some of the recently added records to Familysearch.org’s historical records database, and I found a new set of records added just on 30 December 2013: United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925. Specifically, this collection contains, “United States Passport Applications from two different NARA collections: M1490, and M1372.” Since there are only 2,320,105 images,…
Category: Indexing
Why You Should Index!
I’m going to step on my soapbox and give a plug for Familysearch Indexing. If you have a computer and can read, you can index. Indexing is the process of typing the information from records into a massive database so they become searchable. Every record you index is important. It can be the key for somebody…