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Ancestry Daily News
2/20/2002 - Archive
The 1930 Census at Ancestry.com
As genealogists count down the days until the 1 April 2002 release
of the 1930 U.S. Federal Census by the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), Ancestry.com is getting in gear to begin posting the images online as
quickly as possible.
Ancestry.com will be obtaining copies of the microfilm as soon as they are released
and will rush the films back to Utah where they will be scanned twenty hours
a day/six days a week on state-of-the-art scanners until the project's completion.
Images will be posted as soon as they become available and the first images
will be available to Ancestry.com Census subscribers within weeks after the
release!
As they are being scanned, trained and experienced data entry operators will be standing
by, waiting to begin the massive indexing project as soon as images become available,
in order to help family historians to more easily locate their ancestors in
this very valuable census. These indexes should go up within a few months as
well.
In addition, Ancestry.com is already working to make available several finding
aids on its Web site. Both maps and descriptions of enumeration districts (both
of which are described in more detail in the following article) will soon be
available at Ancestry.com so that family historians can dive right into this
historic enumeration as soon as it becomes available. Stay tuned to the Ancestry
Daily News for more on these upcoming release dates.
To subscribe to Ancestry.com's Census Subscription, which includes the one-of-a-kind
1890 Census Substitute, go to: www.ancestry.com/rd/signup.htm
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