FamilySearch indexing volunteers broke a record this week during the first Worldwide Indexing Event.
FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, was hoping an unprecedented 50,000 contributors would participate in the 24-hour effort to submit genealogy records, beginning at 6 p.m. MDT on 20 July 2014.
A total of 66,511 indexers and arbitrators went online to submit records, surpassing the goal by 16,511 people.
Read more at the global edition of Mormon Newsroom.
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