You just saved me 20 Years of my life! and at nearly 58 yrs of age that's 20 years I can spend doing other things with genealogy other than transcribing haha :-). I will be giving Kindex a go with the intent of staying with it.😁
Your description of Kindex makes me very excited to try it. The notion of indexing items that are not typed or OCR gives a great potential for several types of collections I have. Boxes of letters from 1900 to 1950. Family photos, scanned but not indexed. A cassette recording, transferred to mp3, of an interview by my French grandfather, and more. I'm glad you addressed your compensation of Kindex. Makes your very positive review of it seem honest. I'm excited to follow-up.
You have a lot of valuable information that would benefit from this service. And yes, I wanted to be honest about the compensation. I accepted the year of the archive service but all the transcriptions were paid for by me. That way I could tell you whether I liked or not. So yep, these are my honest opinions.
Not related to Kindex, but I'm excited and have to share! Using the FamilySearch full search AI, I found school records for my current project family for 1856 tonight! I love it! Had no idea these types of records were even out there! Better yet, it confirms for me one of the daughters of the family. I thought I had her as an adult... but I wasn't 100% positive. Now, I can be. 💜 Sounds like Kindex can be helpful with some of my document transcriptions! And save ne some time. That will be nice. I found one document last year with the laziest handwriting... the words looked kinda like drawing waves on the paper. Letters were barely formed. A testiment to our brainpower to be able to recognize anything that looks like words... and yet, I think I got it almost all done. I'm curious what Kindex may make of it. Ha!
Kindex does sound like an awesome program, however I would gladly pay for such a program with the organization ability you describe that is downloadable and where everything already lives on my own computer. Another great video btw, thank you!
Thank you for introducing me to this. I received a manuscript from the University of Arkansas of my 4gt-grandfather's journal he made on his trip to California as a 49-er. I will use this to transcribe it. Question: Do the pdf's have to be OCR'ed before it works?
With the audio, the preferred language is English but they've said to try out Spanish, French. As for the written word, I haven't heard of an English preference. I would reach out to Kindex directly to get a formal answer, but I believe they're working on foreign languages in handwriting recognition if they don't have the ability already.
Honestly, what I love about these tools is I don't have to write any prompts at all! I simply click a button, pay the fee and the tool does all the heavy lifting for me. Since I know you write your family stories, given you're a long time fan of both channels, you'll love the transcription field that's as easy to edit as all of your text documents for your stories. It really is incredibly simple. Play around with it. You will be so impressed.
Not sure if I would ever use this tool. I do have tons and tons of hand written notes in spiral notebooks for genealogy. I would wonder if another statement might be: "If you can't read your own handwriting then neither can Kindex." ;-) I remember in high school (1970s) I would hand in my paper and the teacher would say, "That's a good rough draft." And I said, "I already did the rough draft. That's the finished paper." And she was like, "Oh no! I can't read that!" And now at age 64 it isn't any better. In fact i think it's worse! lol. I would wonder if Kindex can transcribe Latin. That is a pretty common language for a number of locations including documents in the US. I do some translations of the Latin documents but I translate most of them to Italian. I find it easier to just read the documents in Italian than try to translate them into English anyway. Sorry to hear about your hearing problems. I'm getting increasing loud 'crickets' in my ears. Somebody told me that is called tinnitus. It started out faint but it's loud enough that I can hear it with the TV on. Most of the time I don't notice it but if I'm quiet enough then I do. I was in the military and had to listen with headphones on. My first day at one duty station I put the volume where it was comfortable and I could hear it but my trainer kept asking me what was said and I had to tell him so finally he said, 'I'm sorry. I have to be able to hear that." And he turned the volume up. So I'm pretty sure after three years of that [1980s] my hearing is probably impaired and it's catching up with me.
My hearing problem is something I've lived with since I was a wee babe. So I'm used to it. But do have your hearing checked. I have worn hearing aides for almost 40 years. They have come a long way in terms of technology.
I have 2 large Civil War Pension Files that I cannot upload completely to Ancestry. They are too large. This could transcribe them and make them fully available, rather than the partial files I uploaded. Right? That's why I'd like to have a link to them from my tree.
I didn't run into size restrictions but I did individual images. Reach out with your specific question to sales@kindex.org and see what they have to say about file size uploads. But yes, once you have the file indexed, you can link that to Ancestry so long as you have a public archive.
Any advise that you can share on how I can obtain info on Baroness Elizabeth Monteagle-Morley Tresham... just recvd an ancestry leaf naming her as my 11th generation great great grandmother. She was born in Northhamptonshire during the 1500s. Ive searched Google but results are vwry high level. Thanks 🌸🌺💝🇬🇧🇺🇸
Kindex provides two archive backup files: a ZIP of all uploaded originals (JPG, PDF, PNG, M4A, MP3, and MP4), and an XLS of all textual data you append to each record (creator, date, provenance, place, transcription, etc.). Presently, the "transcription" text in the XLS is provided in HTML format, both because of its origin and because HTML preserves any formatting made in the text editor (strikethroughs, underlines, superscripts, etc.). IF an HTML derivative of your transcriptions is annoying, each transcribed record has a "Share" screen where you may generate completed records as PDF. You may also copy and paste the transcribed text into a local text editing program. I hope this helps!
I had never heard of Kindex - thank you for introducing me to a new tool!
You're welcome! It's been a game-changer for me!
Wow. Can't wait to try it! So glad you are back!❤
It's really amazing. It's good to be back.
You just saved me 20 Years of my life! and at nearly 58 yrs of age that's 20 years I can spend doing other things with genealogy other than transcribing haha :-). I will be giving Kindex a go with the intent of staying with it.😁
Awesome. Glad I can give you back your life!
Your description of Kindex makes me very excited to try it. The notion of indexing items that are not typed or OCR gives a great potential for several types of collections I have. Boxes of letters from 1900 to 1950. Family photos, scanned but not indexed. A cassette recording, transferred to mp3, of an interview by my French grandfather, and more.
I'm glad you addressed your compensation of Kindex. Makes your very positive review of it seem honest. I'm excited to follow-up.
You have a lot of valuable information that would benefit from this service. And yes, I wanted to be honest about the compensation. I accepted the year of the archive service but all the transcriptions were paid for by me. That way I could tell you whether I liked or not. So yep, these are my honest opinions.
Great information! So excited to check out Kindex
Please do and then tell me what you think.
This was a very interesting video! Thanks for sharing this great tool with us!
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
You're welcome!
Thank you!!!
My pleasures. Thanks for all the comments.
Not related to Kindex, but I'm excited and have to share! Using the FamilySearch full search AI, I found school records for my current project family for 1856 tonight! I love it! Had no idea these types of records were even out there! Better yet, it confirms for me one of the daughters of the family. I thought I had her as an adult... but I wasn't 100% positive. Now, I can be. 💜
Sounds like Kindex can be helpful with some of my document transcriptions! And save ne some time. That will be nice.
I found one document last year with the laziest handwriting... the words looked kinda like drawing waves on the paper. Letters were barely formed. A testiment to our brainpower to be able to recognize anything that looks like words... and yet, I think I got it almost all done. I'm curious what Kindex may make of it. Ha!
I'm curious what Kindex would make of the squiggles as well. Congrats on the School Records. Woo-hoo!
Kindex does sound like an awesome program, however I would gladly pay for such a program with the organization ability you describe that is downloadable and where everything already lives on my own computer. Another great video btw, thank you!
I can understand that desire. Kindex wouldn't solve the computer-based indexing quest you're seeking. I wonder what would.
Thank you for introducing me to this. I received a manuscript from the University of Arkansas of my 4gt-grandfather's journal he made on his trip to California as a 49-er. I will use this to transcribe it. Question: Do the pdf's have to be OCR'ed before it works?
Any idea if it can transcribe Spanish, Latin, Polish?
With the audio, the preferred language is English but they've said to try out Spanish, French. As for the written word, I haven't heard of an English preference. I would reach out to Kindex directly to get a formal answer, but I believe they're working on foreign languages in handwriting recognition if they don't have the ability already.
Thank you for sharing. Not sure I am ready to learn AI tools. I’m a nervous nellie
What about AI makes you nervous?
@ learning a tool always makes me nervous in my old age.
Honestly, what I love about these tools is I don't have to write any prompts at all! I simply click a button, pay the fee and the tool does all the heavy lifting for me. Since I know you write your family stories, given you're a long time fan of both channels, you'll love the transcription field that's as easy to edit as all of your text documents for your stories. It really is incredibly simple. Play around with it. You will be so impressed.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Thank you. I will try at some point. Watching my Fees at this stage.
what was the translating tool for hand writing?
The document translating tool is for both printed text and for handwriting!
Not sure if I would ever use this tool. I do have tons and tons of hand written notes in spiral notebooks for genealogy. I would wonder if another statement might be: "If you can't read your own handwriting then neither can Kindex." ;-) I remember in high school (1970s) I would hand in my paper and the teacher would say, "That's a good rough draft." And I said, "I already did the rough draft. That's the finished paper." And she was like, "Oh no! I can't read that!" And now at age 64 it isn't any better. In fact i think it's worse! lol. I would wonder if Kindex can transcribe Latin. That is a pretty common language for a number of locations including documents in the US. I do some translations of the Latin documents but I translate most of them to Italian. I find it easier to just read the documents in Italian than try to translate them into English anyway.
Sorry to hear about your hearing problems. I'm getting increasing loud 'crickets' in my ears. Somebody told me that is called tinnitus. It started out faint but it's loud enough that I can hear it with the TV on. Most of the time I don't notice it but if I'm quiet enough then I do. I was in the military and had to listen with headphones on. My first day at one duty station I put the volume where it was comfortable and I could hear it but my trainer kept asking me what was said and I had to tell him so finally he said, 'I'm sorry. I have to be able to hear that." And he turned the volume up. So I'm pretty sure after three years of that [1980s] my hearing is probably impaired and it's catching up with me.
My hearing problem is something I've lived with since I was a wee babe. So I'm used to it. But do have your hearing checked. I have worn hearing aides for almost 40 years. They have come a long way in terms of technology.
Can I link what I put on Kindex to my Ancestry tree?
Yes, you can link that to Ancestry so long as you have a public Kindex archive.
I have 2 large Civil War Pension Files that I cannot upload completely to Ancestry. They are too large. This could transcribe them and make them fully available, rather than the partial files I uploaded. Right? That's why I'd like to have a link to them from my tree.
I didn't run into size restrictions but I did individual images. Reach out with your specific question to sales@kindex.org and see what they have to say about file size uploads. But yes, once you have the file indexed, you can link that to Ancestry so long as you have a public archive.
@ Thanks! You rock!
Any advise that you can share on how I can obtain info on Baroness Elizabeth Monteagle-Morley Tresham... just recvd an ancestry leaf naming her as my 11th generation great great grandmother. She was born in Northhamptonshire during the 1500s. Ive searched Google but results are vwry high level. Thanks 🌸🌺💝🇬🇧🇺🇸
That specific of a person. Nope. Sorry
Holy wow! About that Backup Zip file ... what manner of file format/s is in there?
Kindex provides two archive backup files: a ZIP of all uploaded originals (JPG, PDF, PNG, M4A, MP3, and MP4), and an XLS of all textual data you append to each record (creator, date, provenance, place, transcription, etc.). Presently, the "transcription" text in the XLS is provided in HTML format, both because of its origin and because HTML preserves any formatting made in the text editor (strikethroughs, underlines, superscripts, etc.). IF an HTML derivative of your transcriptions is annoying, each transcribed record has a "Share" screen where you may generate completed records as PDF. You may also copy and paste the transcribed text into a local text editing program. I hope this helps!
@@cathygilmore4893 Thank you!
Thanks @Cathygilmore4893 for fielding that one.