1940 Census Volunteer Opportunity
The buzz about the 1940 Census has been released and you can be part of the process. Genealogy organizations Archives.com, FamilySearch, and Findmypast.co.uk, will work together on the 1940 US Census Community Project. This project will work to involve online volunteers to publish name index to the 1940 US Census soon after the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) releases the records to the public April 2, 2012. All three partners will provide access to the free index on their websites. You can sign up to be an indexer at http://www.the1940census.com.
Last month, NARA selected Archives.com, to host the digitized census records. Ancestry.com
also has announced it’ll offer a 1940 census index and the record images free, at least through 2013.
FamilySearch’s RootsTech conference, taking place Feb. 2-4 in Salt Lake City, is open for registration. The early bird rate of $149 is valid through Jan. 13, 2012.
The National Genealogical Society 2012 Conference, taking place May 8-12 in Cincinnati, also is open for registration. Early bird prices ($175 for NGS members and $210 for nonmembers, plus extra if you want a printed syllabus) are good through March 20, 2012.
You can read more on Dear Myrtle’s blog that genealogy expert and Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian