If you look closely at the date these records were added to FamilySearch.org, you will see that they are the same day that this post is being written. The process of adding all these records and thousands more each day is complex. It starts with a pile of paper documents in an archive or other repository of genealogically valuable records.
These documents need to be processed so that they can be digitized. This means unfolding and without damaging the document making it as flat as possible.
Once the documents are prepped, they can be made available to the volunteer/missionaries who are going to digitize each document.
The documents are then digitized (photographed) one at a time, one page at a time.
The images are stored on hard disk drives and then sent to Salt Lake City, Utah to FamilySearch. FamilySearch processes the “raw” images and eventually uploads them to the FamilySearch.org website in the Images section.
Eventually, the images stored in the Images section geographically and over time, are cataloged and indexed. Meanwhile, you can search through the images page by page. If you haven’t looked at the images section of the FamilySearch.org website, you are missing a few billion records that appear only in the Images section and are not listed in the catalog or indexed.
If you need help finding these records, watch this video.
