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postheadericon FamilySearch: 1940 Census Is Only One of This Year’s Projects

May 13th, 2012 | Author:

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At tonight’s FamilySearch bloggers meeting at the National Genealogical Society Conference, FamilySearch both
celebrated the progress of the 1940 Census Community
Project and emphasized that it’s just a part of what the organization hopes to
accomplish his year. Here are some stats we were presented with:

  • Getting 400,000 historical record images online at FamilySearch.org is FamilySearch’s
    goal for 2012, and the 1940 census is just one percent of that.>

  • FamilySearch.org has collections for 60+ countries, with the United States leading
    the charge at 200 million images with more than 1 billion indexed.>

  • More than 530 million digital images of historical records are on the site, with 1.7
    billion indexed.>

  • Comprehensive collections include Mexico civil and church records and civil registrations
    from the Netherlands.>

  • FamilySearch has a contract with the Italian government to digitize civil registrations
    there dating through 1940.>

  • Besides records, FamilySearch is also working on a program that has 10,000 volunteers
    answering genealogists’ questions online via VOIP and chat technology.>

  • Now for the 1940 census project, 101,000 volunteers have helped index or arbitrate
    census; 170,000 of them new this year. They were recreuited through genealogical societies
    (650 are participating), a blog ambassador program, targeted online advertising and
    other efforts.>

  • 95 percent of all FamilySearch indexing activity is for the 1940 census, but as the
    project winds down, FamilySearch will try to transition those indexers to other indexing
    projects.>

  • 30 percent of all the census records were indexed within 37 days. As of tomorrow,
    six states’ indexes will be published: Delaware, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Virginia
    and New Hampshire.>

  • California is more than 40 percent indexed.>

  • Archives.com, findmypast.com, the National Archives and ProQuest also receive copies
    of the volunteer-created index.>

  • The 1940 census index could possibly be completed (though not necessarily published)
    by July.>

    • Posted in Genealogy News

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