Since LDS historically has not charged for its database, and Ancestry normally charges a reasonable rate, I am waiting for statements stating what various policies will be, before I decide who, if anyone, will get my indexing assistance.
--- On Sun, 3/11/12, Jackie King <jskin...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jackie King <jskin...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012, 9:33 AM Tim - The National Archives this time around is digitizing the images and making them available to anyone who wants them, as I understand it. (Someone correct me, but the last time around, didn't the companies have to digitize the images themselves and that created a huge delay as I remember it.) So it is not impossible for a number of companies to do their own indexes - however with the three companies jointly efforting the digitizing and the hosting of a rather large collection, and then making it available free (with no time limit on how long it is available), I really wonder how many companies are going to want to effort it. (Add in that the joint effort is also being backed by a number of prominent genealogical societies.) What I believe really is also new this time around are efforts such as Legacy to make the indexes even easier to use. Thanks to the tool it has released, I am finding families in other censuses that I really need to be looking up. Jackie On 3/11/2012 11:25 AM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: > I wonder how they are going to distribute them ? National Archives going > to offer the images to the largest companies for indexing ? And I would > suppose the microfilms will be delivered soon afterward ? The images > being made available to all so we can find our ancestors by their ED ? > Etc .... > > I have no clue. Fill me in, > > Tim Rosenlof > > On 3/11/2012 9:24 AM, Maureen Lake wrote: >> Archives.com and Find My Past have teamed together with FamilySearch to >> index the 1940 census and to keep it free in perpetuity. FamilySearch has >> pledged their indexers to have the entire census, all 132+ million people, >> in six months. They expect to have the first images available to index by >> noon on April 2nd, and the first state posted within a week. >> >> Maureen >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Mar 11, 2012, at 8:00 AM, "Ron >> Ferguson"<ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Michele, >>> >>> I do not think so, I understand the findmypast.com are also indexing this >>> census. >>> >>> Ron Ferguson >>> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Michele Lewis >>> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 12:06 PM >>> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >>> Subject: [LegacyUG] 1940 >>> >>> I know FamilySearch will be indexing the 1940 census (I am an indexer) but >>> Ancestry.com will also be indexing. Is this a joint venture between the two >>> or will there be 2 separate indexes? 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