Welcome and thanks for joining me! Today we are going to discuss being a “Citizen Genealogist.” We are used to commercial organizations like Ancestry, Find My Past, and My Heritage digitizing records and making them available to us online. But increasing accessibility to records is nothing new. Generations of genealogists have volunteered individually or for genealogical societies and historical archives to transcribe and create indexes for records that were not easily accessible. And contributing to this great tradition will not only help you in altruistic goals, but your personal ones as well.We discuss NARA's Citizen Archivist, Smithsonian's Digital Volunteers, From the Page, and FamilySearch Indexing programs.