Crowdsourcing and other fabulous initiatives
Crowdsourcing. I love it. I use it all the time. Do you? This morning I spent quite a bit of time on Ravelry looking up free knitting patterns for cowls using Ravelry's fabulous database - largely constructed by all the wonderfully generous knitters in the world who are on Ravelry. I thought I would give back some of the love but in another of my favourite areas - genealogy. And so today I signed up to become an indexer on the Family Search website in anticipation of the Worldwide Indexing event on July 20 and 21. Yes that's today here in Australia but we're waiting for the rest of the world to catch up ;) When I told my husband I was indexing, he made the remark "Whatever that is...." and so I felt the need to explain to him and anyone else who doesn't understand the concept. When I signed up to index today, I was lucky enough to be given a batch of records from the Hobart Public Cemetery in Tasmania. The batch was for Septembe...