Tuesday, December 1, 2009

First service opportunity

I've recently started doing something called 'indexing' as a way to serve. For any who may not have heard of indexing, it's a way of making records available in a digital format so that people can use them for genealogy/family history work. This particular site is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, however people do not have to be members of the church to access the records that they have. When you index you are given a batch of images of records like censuses etc. there will be instructions of what you need to do for each specific batch but you will be reading the records and typing the information you see so that it can made more easily accessible. You have to register to do this and there are various procedures to learn but it's a relatively easy way to serve, there's tutorial for the things you need to do. You can do it at home or where ever you can use a computer, it usually takes about a half an hour, it's a pretty easy way to serve.
As for Christmas traditions, I thought I'd find out more about why we have Christmas trees. I found this site, I don't know how accurate it is but the information is very interesting and is likely at least close to the truth. The general consensus seems to be that the evergreens were a symbol of hope or that life would come again after winters. This site and this one offer some more recent history of Christmas trees.

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