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• Subscription genealogy site Ancestry.com announced
  that its 1940 census index for
  the state of Maine is now searchable free on the site. The site also has 1940 census
  indexes for Delaware, the District of Columbia and Nevada.

• In addition to its six state indexes for the 1940 census (Colorado, Delaware, Kansas,
  Oregon, Vermont, Virginia), the free FamilySearch.org has
  added online records for Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic,
  England, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal,
  South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United States, Venezuela and Wales.

US records come from Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa,
Maine, Maryland, Montana, New York, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. You
can see all the new or updated collections and link to them here.

• The Southern California
  Genealogy Jamboree is coming up June 8-10 at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank
  Airport Hotel. Besides the classes and the free exhibit hall, highlights include one-on-one
  consultations with members of the Southern California Chapter of the Association for
  Professional Genealogists, three-hour Genealogy World roundtable discussions and a
  DNA Interest Group that can help you interpret genetic genealogy test results.  

• The National Genealogical Society (NGS) has
  announced that the 2013 NGS Family History Conference, will take place in Las Vegas,
  Nevada, May 8–11. The conference hotel and venue will be the LVH−Las
  Vegas Hotel & Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton). Online conference registration
  isn’t yet open.