In an excellent RootsTech presentation, FamilySearch Full-Text Search – Your Golden Path to Ancestral Discovery, David Ouimette mentioned that FamilySearch is prioritizing processing new records over those previously indexed manually.
He illustrated many cases in which witnesses and other terms, rather than the primary person in the record, were useful in surfacing relevant records through Full Text Search. As shown in the table, the ratio of full-text search records to the total number of records (birthplace) indicates that UK records are being given lower priority.
| Full Text (M) | Records (M) | Ratio | |
| UK | 22 | 454 | 0.048 |
| Mexico | 30 | 172 | 0.175 |
| US | 871 | 1,163 | 0.748 |
| Canada | 76 | 58 | 1.310 |
The ratio for Canada is likely deceptive owing to the large number of immigrants.