LOOKING FOR THE LIVING

My thoughts this morning turn to searching for those who live in the present.  I have found relatives who get in touch by phone, Facebook, and Skype through ancestry.com .   There are so many of us trying to find each other and there are many branches on one tree.  Facebook has its own family tree app.   A good way to find people who may be able to give you information or you may be able to help them find where they fit into your tree.

What the Living are doing:  There are hundreds of millions - possibly more, but I can't remember the number, microfilms in the Granite Mountain Vault in Utah that are being indexed and digitized.  Voluteers for indexing can be anyone - you - me -lds members and non-members.  Th following is a quote from a Wiki article posted on https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Digitizing_the_Records_in_the_Granite_Mountain

"The Future of the Granite Mountain Records Vault

Vault conversion of microfilm to digital images will ramp up dramatically in 2010, increasing the publication of online images into the hundreds of millions. A growing international volunteer workforce will produce more indexes of non-English records, making the records even more accessible.
FamilySearch will continue to “open the vault” in the months and years to come. FamilySearch envisions “a global community actively contributing records and information in a free flow of data into an open repository of family-linked names that connect and preserve the human family.” To fulfill this vision, FamilySearch not only provides record-preservation services but also seeks to provide much greater access to online records and further enable a self-reliant genealogical community."

I know about this because I search the Wiki often in hopes of finding valuable information to help others.  Try it.  Go to the site, do a search for the country and/or specific place and see what comes up.  It can be fascinating reading.