The project aims to create searchable digital indexes of scanned images of historical documents that are relevant to genealogy.
Since FamilySearch indexing began in 2006, this crowdsourcing effort has produced more than one billion searchable records.
The digital images and corresponding indexes are valuable to professionals, hobbyists, and family organization researchers.
[1] Volunteers (including jail inmates[2]) use online software on the FamilySearch website to download images of historical documents.
On September 21, 2021, FamilySearch Indexing announced that it had completed full digitization of its entire collection of 2.4 million rolls of microfilm.