Volunteers in this role are required to handle original and digital records to create new finding aids based on the information recorded in individual items held in the collection. Transcription work is required. Volunteers may work on more than 1 project at a time as an indexer or peer checker.

Tasks include:

• data entry, reviewing & checking work;
• cleaning and re-housing records.

Limited training is provided. Volunteers must adhere to the QSA Indexing and Open Data guidelines for data entry. Indexing Volunteers liaise with the Index Project Supervisor in relation to their individual or group projects. The Indexing volunteer team is a small cohesive group who work on a variety of projects that currently include prison, land, immigration and Asylum records.

Volunteers are responsible for ensuring their work is saved in an approved manner as per QSA Record keeping guidelines and for reporting any WHS issues to their allocated supervisor.

To date the QSA Indexing Volunteers have significantly contributed to the 1.5 million indexed names available online across more than 85 different indexes covering lands, hospital, schools, immigration, court and convict records and many other topics. Our indexes are an important tool to locating individuals whose stories would otherwise be lost to history. Family History websites and researchers rely on organisations such as QSA to provide index data so they can in turn share this important work across the world with other researchers.