The California Genealogical Society is part of the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project to create a free, online searchable name index of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census.
The CGS umbrella now has sixty-four indexers who indexed 28,656 names and arbitrated 10,400 during the month of May.
President Jeffrey Vaillant is our acting project coordinator and he is posting periodic "cheerleading" messages to our group participants.
Amazingly, 1940 census indexing for the entire U.S. is already more than half completed! FamilySearch Indexing is reporting the following statistics:
- 51.88% of the entire project has been completely indexed.
- More than twenty states are at or above 85% complete.
- Six states — Delaware, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Virginia, and New Hampshire — are now indexed and searchable by name, location, and family relations.
California is almost finished! The Golden State is 97% indexed, thanks largely to more than forty California genealogical societies that are part of the community project. But don't stop, there is still much to be done in other states, and, as we all know, Californians come from everywhere.
To see the status of each state, visit FamilySearch.org/1940census.
Thanks to all of our hard-working indexers!
If you haven't signed on yet, join CGS and the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project.
1 comments:
Actually, you're behind on the times.
There are now FOURTEEN states indexed and available for searching!!!
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