Comment Comment by BrainScraps There are thousands of volunteers doing this "mechanical Turk"-like work at a pretty impressive pace. http://www.lds.org/church/news/volunteers-make-record-progre...Also, the tools created to index these records are created mainly by Mormon developers who donate their time.Interesting story about Mobile apps for indexing: http://tech.lds.org/blog/455-new-familysearch-indexing-app-n...Disclaimer: I'm a big fan and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) parent BrainScraps 14 years ago
Also, the tools created to index these records are created mainly by Mormon developers who donate their time.
Interesting story about Mobile apps for indexing: http://tech.lds.org/blog/455-new-familysearch-indexing-app-n...
Disclaimer: I'm a big fan and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)