Worldwide Indexing Day a success!
So the goal was to have 50,000 people indexing and arbitrating index entries over a 24-hour period. That would set a new record… not to mention getting one whale of a lot of new index entries so name searches would turn up results on FamilySearch.
And … oh my … it didn’t start well.
The site was overloaded.
Folks couldn’t log in.
Batches wouldn’t download.
Some people tried and tried for hours and didn’t manage to connect.
It definitely Did Not Look Good.
And despite all that… this graphic says it all:
We did it.
Thank you so much for your original post on this – I read it on the 19th and decided to help. I always thought that I have so much to do that I just didn’t have the time but your post inspired me. I figured there would be server issues so I signed up and downloaded 7 batches on Sunday morning. I couldn’t get them to upload at 5 so I just waited until 10 pm PDT and had no trouble then.
The only problem is that it is addictive. I have had to post a sign that says “No more indexing until blog posts are done.” I am doing the 52 Ancestors challenge and need to finish about 20 blog posts for the last 20 weeks of the year because I have also signed up to take a 9 month Genealogy and Family History class at the University of Washington which starts October 9th.
I thoroughly enjoy your blog and find it very helpful!
Thanks for joining in the effort! And thanks so much for the kind words.