About Us
Leeds Indexers
Formerly the ‘Leeds Indexers’ we formed in August 2000. We are a group of Family Historians who were actively researching in the Leeds area. Living in Leeds they were aware of its vast size and the problems in locating records. Some of the indexers were already actively indexing self generated projects and the obvious course of action would be to make the details available to others. We are not a Society or Family History Group just a group of individuals wishing to make information available to fellow researchers. This led to the commencement of the Leeds & District Records, Inscriptions and Plans.
As the project commence, we began to expand out of the Leeds District into other areas of Yorkshire. Producing the records on CD as PDF’s became laborious and it became difficult to search and maintain the expanding collection. We changed our name to the ‘Yorkshire Indexers’and developed an online searchable database. With the advent of digital cameras we included a gallery, which linked to the database.
As the project commence, we began to expand out of the Leeds District into other areas of Yorkshire. Producing the records on CD as PDF’s became laborious and it became difficult to search and maintain the expanding collection. We changed our name to the ‘Yorkshire Indexers’ and developed an online searchable database. With the advent of digital cameras we included a gallery, which linked to the database.
Unfortunately the ‘PhotoPost’ Gallery Software we used was no longer supported by the developer, which meant we were unable to update the security and versions of software running on the website.
We decided to take the bull by the horns and created this new website. We have listened to our members and implemented the following changes:
- Increased search functionality (Advanced Search)
- A basic searching will now search multiple fields. Tutorials to follow.
- Included a list of Sources ”Records Transcribed’
- Ability to search the gallery by Area / Cemetery and Section
- Watch this space
This website is a free Resource. Thank you to all our previous subscribers without you none of this would be possible ..
There are numerous people and organisations whom have helped us along the way. We thank you for your past, present and future support. You know who you are.