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This message is courtesy of Beatrice Takacs. FYI. Dawn (Beatrice is the coordinator of the Big Country Library System in Abilene.-L.) Dawn Vogler Continuing Education Consultant Texas State Library & Archives Commission 1201 Brazos Street P.O. Box 12927 Austin, TX 78711 (512) 936-4449 phone (512) 463-8800 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----Original Message----- > From: Connie Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:21 PM > Subject: Census: The 1930 Census > > >Hi Everyone, > >As I'm sure you are all aware, the 1930 census information has been > >released to the public as of April 1, 2002. There are 120,105 > >Enumeration Districts on 2,667 microfilm reels for the entire 1930 > >Population Schedules. > > > >If you plan to do your own research for this census year, the following > >web-page has some "FAQs" that might help you get started. > >http://1930census.archives.gov/FAQ.html > > > >There are only 10 states for the 1930 that were completely done with > >Soundex cards (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, > >Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia). > >Two additional states are partially done on Soundex cards (Kentucky and > >West Virginia). There is no index for this census year. Researchers of > >the states that are not done with Soundex cards will have a hard time > >finding the name they are researching. > > > >Ancestry.com has started adding the 1930 to their on-line (subscription) > >area, and Heritage-Quest has started creating CDs and I'm sure many of > >the other CD makers have started. It will take a while before Ancestry > >or H-Q get the entire 1930 done so microfilm will need to be used for > >the most part. > > > >Because it will be more difficult for researchers to find the names they > >are looking for, we've decided that for the 1930 census we will > >transcribe a "fully-extended-index" first. Then later we can always go > >back and add more columns into the index files when time allows. The > >"fully-extended-index" will have the following columns: Stamped-PG#, > >LN#, ENUM-DIST, SHEET-NO., LAST-NAME, FIRST-NAME, RELATION, SEX, RACE, > >AGE, BIRTHPLACE, and Transcriber's REMARKS. > > > >We've been busy getting the 1930 rows with microfilm roll numbers added > >to the assignment status web-pages. We are going to do this in two > >phases. > > > >Phase 1 will be adding the new 1930 rows with their microfilm roll > >numbers. We are working on this phase. > > > >Phase 2 will be adding links from the right column of the 1930 rows to a > >table that will show the Enumeration District descriptions. This phase > >will take a long time. > > > >If you want to see what the completed Phase 2 assignments (with > >Enumeration District links) will look like, visit the West Virginia > >assignment status pages at: > >http://www.us-census.org/states/westvirg/westvirg.htm > > > >If you want to see what a very large county will look like after Phase > >2, visit the Cuyahoga, OH assignment status page at: > >http://www.us-census.org/states/ohio/c-oh.htm#Cuyahoga > > > >There are 28 microfilm reels and 840 Enumeration Districts for Cuyahoga. > >The far-right column on the assignment status page links to a list of > >the microfilm reels with a brief description of the reel. On the > >microfilm reel page each reel number links to another list that shows > >the Enumeration Districts for that reel with a description of each ED. > > > >Connie Burkett > >The USGenWeb Census Project, Assistant Coordinator > >http://www.us-census.org/ --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm
