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We have a Winner—Announcing the 1940 Census Indexing June Contest Winners 13 Jul 2012 | 02:52 am
We have a Winner—Announcing the 1940 Census Indexing June Contest Winners Congratulations to our winning societies who will receive a goody bag for every member who helped arbitrate records during th...
Can FamilySearch Indexers Break a Record? Join Us for 5 Million Record Day! 27 Jun 2012 | 10:04 pm
Here’s a neat way you can not only help make 1940 Census records available to everyone, but also help the volunteer indexers set a new record for indexing at Family Search: join us for 5 Million Recor...
The Last War of 1812 Pensioner – Found in the 1940 Census 21 Jun 2012 | 06:46 am
Recently the news featured the death of one of the last remaining persons still receiving a Civil War Pension: Stella Mae Case died on June 10, 2012 at the age of 94 and was still collecting a pension...
The Stories 9 Jun 2012 | 05:27 am
Click here to view the embedded video. Reading my Grandparents journals did for me what the man in the video said it did for him– it helped me understand myself better. I am stubborn, so is my Grandm...
1940 Census May Contest Winners 8 Jun 2012 | 05:02 am
We want to congratulate the winners of our May 1940 Census Indexing Contest. One winner from both categories will each receive a brand new laptop computer. The winners for each category are: Winning ...
When June 1 Was Census Day 31 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
For the 1940 Census, “Census Day” – the day used as the cutoff for enumerating the population of the United States – was Monday, April 1, 1940. However, since the start of the US Census in 1790, the e...
Congratulations! Contest Winners for the week of April 30 31 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
We know you’ve been anxiously awaiting the results of the arbitrator contest from week of April 30. The results are in! Winners of the arbitrator contest from the week of April 30 (All arbitrators w...
Congratulations! Contest Winners for Week of April 23 30 May 2012 | 08:55 am
Thank you to everyone who is working hard to make a searchable index of the 1940 U.S. Census. Did you know that every indexer and arbitrator working on the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project is a vol...
1940 Census Memorial Day Tribute – The Sullivan Brothers 25 May 2012 | 08:57 am
The Sullivan Brothers – George Thomas, Francis ‘Frank” Henry, Joseph “Joe” Eugene, Madison “Matt” Abel and Albert “Al” Leo – were five brothers all lost at sea in the sinking of the USS Juneau during ...
Who will you find in the 1940 census? Who do you want to remember? 23 May 2012 | 05:00 am
Elizabeth Ericson Steier (80) on Easter 1974 with David Ericson (4) and Jim Ericson (2) Updated 5/22/2012 I wasn’t alive in 1940. Not by a long shot. But my parents both were. My father was born in ...
