Today on Dick Eastman's blog he shared a FamilySearch news announcement .
FamilySearch has recruited 100,00 volunteers to transcribe and index various records from around the world to preserve them for future generations.
The event starts Friday July 15, 2016 and runs for 72 hours.
You can read Dick's post on this blog at https://blog.eogn.com/2016/07/11/familysearch-recruits-100000-to-save-the-worlds-records/ or go to FamilySearch and read the announcement and details of the event at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/worldwide-indexing-event-2016/