1000 by Christmas

I've started doing something this year that I never thought I'd get into...ok so I really didn't start until the last quarter of the year, but I'm loving it! What is it you ask?? INDEXING from the church website. A friend at work told me she was doing this {which is why she doesn't blog or do the facebook thing--she does this instead} and she got me to check it out. The warning when you sign up is pretty accurate. It can be a little addicting. It's my late night activity when I feel like I need to do something more than blogstalk other people. I'm only 32 names away from making my goal but I thought it might motivate others {or myself if I'm reading this and I've stopped doing something like this} to get into family history one way or another. Last night I did death certificates {which is an indexing first for me} and although some of them I found a little creepy {like the guy who died at the age of 40 something because of an airplane accident. He was partially decapitated by the blade hitting a rock--yeah, you can read what the autopsy report says} it was pretty interesting. I like to read the different names and see how old they were...stuff like that. I get a little sad when I index the deaths of kids and babies. Reminds me of my sisters and how hard something like that is on a parent. Of course you don't have to index death certificates. You get to choose what you want to index. Check it out...if you have nothing to do {or want something worthwhile to do on the computer}