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.
CGS has sixty-six indexers who are part of a team of almost 155,000 volunteers. Our team members indexed 13,301 names and arbitrated 8,739 during the month of July.
Amazingly, after only four months, the project is almost finished!
99% of the 1940 census has been indexed and arbitrated. More than 134 million records have been indexed and thirty-one states are searchable by name.
President Jeffrey Vaillant is our acting project coordinator and he is posting periodic "cheerleading" messages to our group participants.
Thank you to all of our hard-working indexing and arbitrating volunteers!
If you didn't get a change to participate, don't worry! New indexing projects are added every week.
Next up: the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Community Project.
Copyright © 2012 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library
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