Indexing!!!!

So our church is really big on doing family history and part of that is indexing. Pretty much all that it consists of is looking at the census record or military record or something like that and deciphering the handwriting and putting it into the grid so that other people can more easily find their ancestors. I was introduced into this when I first started at BYU, they challenged our Stake to get X amount of names done so they taught us all how to do it. I did it a bit but didn't really get into it.

This semester I'm taking a family history class and I am loving it! I have gotten back into indexing and can't stop. I love seeing all the names and places and ages - little boys named grown up names and people from all over the world. I turn on some hulu in the background and sit there and index. This class has also got me interested in some other things. I have decided that the next time I'm home, I am going to start doing some interviews with family members. I realized that I know nothing about my grandfather's life or my grandmother's. I want to interview my aunts and mother to get their parent's stories and I want to get my own parent's life recorded for my children to have. There is so much to be learned from the family. I am way excited. I also want to go visit some graves.