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Here’s a quick look at some of the news bits coming out of the National
Genealogical Society (NGS) 2011 Family History Conference, which ends tomorrow
in Charleston, SC. 

• We’re hearing there’s great attendance at this year’s conference, and that the first
  two days in the exhibit hall were crowded.
  

• The 2012 NGS conference is May 9-12 in Cincinnati (also the hometown of Family
  Tree Magazine) and the 2013 conference will be in Las Vegas.

• FamilySearch has set an annual
  goal to add 200 million record images to its free online records search. Its 2012 RootsTech
  conference will be Feb. 2-4 in Salt Lake City.

• Archivist of the United States David Ferrerio, speaking at the NGS opening session,
  said that the National Archives and Records
  Administration (NARA) is digitizing the 1940 census in-house and it’ll be available—but
  not yet indexed by name—on on NARA’s website April 2, 2012. It won’t be on any commercial
  websites on that date.

• Ancestry.com will
  begin indexing the census records as soon as they’re available and will post the indexed
  records online later in the year, the company announced at a conference reception.
  

Dick
Eastman has posted his copious notes from the reception. Some things that caught
my eye: the new genealogy
Web Search, US Navy Ship Muster Rolls 1939-1949 (coming on Memorial Day), more
US birth and death records, a faster record image viewer, a new Android app, and the
ability to download data from your Ancestry tree to version 2012 Family Tree Maker
software.

• See this
  GeneaBloggers post for the latest NGS-related tweets and blog posts.