FamilySearch has partnered with the BYU Record Linking Lab for a number of years to create tools to make it easy for individuals to help build the FamilySearch tree by linking records to existing people in the tree or to even create new individuals that are not currently in the tree. Their program uses the already existing record-linking tool in FamilySearch that many of you have been using for a number of years to link records to your own ancestors.
Several of these projects have targeted minorities and other underrepresented groups such as the 1910 US Census project to grow the number of blacks in the tree or the two recent projects to add records from WWII Japanese internment camps to the tree. This will help those using FamilySearch for the first time have a greater chance of finding their deceased ancestors already in the tree.
Their new program focuses on letting people sign up to help by participating for just a few minutes per day with their 5-a-day hint email. When you sign up, you will be sent 5 hints or links to the record-linking tool that will let you link records in the tree. This would be a great project for beginning to intermediate researchers who just have a few minutes a day to help build the tree. If you need help starting this activity in your ward, you could get training from Heather Cromar (Cedar Point Ward). The link to the sign-up form is here.