Jackie, Good information, Thank you !
Tim On 3/11/2012 10:33 AM, Jackie King wrote: > 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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