Monday, April 2, 2012

The 1940 Census is Here!


Please forgive me while I bombard you with all things 1940 Census, but this is a perfect place to share some of the great images and videos I've seen in the last week or so.




I almost forgot this one! I found this on Ancestry's Facebook Page this morning. These are the hard drives holding all the Census data, right before NARA staff began uploading it online. Crazy!

Ancestry.com has a pretty fun blog called Sticky Notes. It's a great space for every-day people and Ancestry staff can post things they find and share stories. This specific page is high-lighting the 1940 Census record of the great Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pretty exciting. Click on the image to visit the site.


Here is one great example of photographs depicting a 1940 Census enumerator, going to the farthest corners of the country to make sure everyone got recorded.

And lastly, this is a pretty great site that I stumbled upon last week.  It's a site sponsored by public and private genealogical organizations who are devoted to making the 1940 Census accessible and understandable. I signed up to be a blogger and indexer, and I'm super excited to join their efforts!

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