Isabella was married to William Slack in 1859 in England. Isaballa's fathers name was Edward and he was an engineer according to her marriage record.
In one census (1851) she is listed as born in Sheffield, England, but in another (1861) she is listed as born in Scotland. She dies before the 1871 census and so far I cant find any record of her earlier than 1851.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Margaret Wickliffe
Margaret was born in 1851 in Quebec. Margaret was the daughter of Samuel Wickliffe and Mary Tiunelly.
Margaret married James E Townsend.
There are 71 census page images for the 1891 Census of Canada for Chatham, Quebec. Searching each page located a mis-indexed entry for the family and reveals an adopted daughter from England!
The writing is very faint, and hard to make out, the name may be something like Millie or Miffet May. She was 13? and she and both parents were born in England.
She isn't listed with them in 1881 is likely the daughter Mary born in Quebec 11 Jul 1877 listed with the family in 1901.
In 1911 there is a male lodger Lessly Griffitts, age 6, apparently born in Quebec, Apr 1905.
Children of James Townsend and Margaret Wickliffe:
James Edward
Walter J
Ernest
Mary (adopted)
Frederick William
Herbert McFadyen
Bertha Ellen
Beatrice Mary
Florence Gertrude Townsend
Gordon Russell
Margaret married James E Townsend.
There are 71 census page images for the 1891 Census of Canada for Chatham, Quebec. Searching each page located a mis-indexed entry for the family and reveals an adopted daughter from England!
The writing is very faint, and hard to make out, the name may be something like Millie or Miffet May. She was 13? and she and both parents were born in England.
She isn't listed with them in 1881 is likely the daughter Mary born in Quebec 11 Jul 1877 listed with the family in 1901.
In 1911 there is a male lodger Lessly Griffitts, age 6, apparently born in Quebec, Apr 1905.
Children of James Townsend and Margaret Wickliffe:
James Edward
Walter J
Ernest
Mary (adopted)
Frederick William
Herbert McFadyen
Bertha Ellen
Beatrice Mary
Florence Gertrude Townsend
Gordon Russell
1940 census arbitration/indexing as a family
This past weekend was my youngest daughters 3rd birthday, so I have been busy and fell behind in my arbitrating goals. My goal was 10,000 this week, which means I have a great deal to do if I want to make that goal (6875 to be exact!)
My 14 year old daughter has been doing the indexing and I do arbitrating. She has set up a whiteboard with the running completion stats from the familysearch 1940 census site.
We have two computers in our living room and we take turns playing music on youtube while we work on the indexing.
My husband joined in with making the "Genealogy Widower" song (he is amazed at the number of listeners btw, thanks all!) (check out my last Thankful Thursday post if you havent read it)
I am grabbing all the Alaska ones to arbitrate and doing them when they appear, and my daughter reports there are none available to index so if you are holding onto some Alaska ones please get them done so we can finish Alaska! I see that they are now red and are to return in 3 days.
My 14 year old daughter has been doing the indexing and I do arbitrating. She has set up a whiteboard with the running completion stats from the familysearch 1940 census site.
We have two computers in our living room and we take turns playing music on youtube while we work on the indexing.
My husband joined in with making the "Genealogy Widower" song (he is amazed at the number of listeners btw, thanks all!) (check out my last Thankful Thursday post if you havent read it)
I am grabbing all the Alaska ones to arbitrate and doing them when they appear, and my daughter reports there are none available to index so if you are holding onto some Alaska ones please get them done so we can finish Alaska! I see that they are now red and are to return in 3 days.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
James E Townsend
James was born in 1842 in Quebec, Canada.
James was the son of Joseph Herrington Townsend and Margaret Pooley.
James married Margaret Wickcliffe in 1871 in Quebec, Canada.
There are 71 census page images for the 1891 Census of Canada for Chatham, Quebec. Searching each page located a mis-indexed entry for the family and reveals an adopted daughter from England!
The writing is very faint, and hard to make out, the name may be something like Millie or Miffet May. She was 13? and she and both parents were born in England.
She isn't listed with them in 1881 is likely the daughter Mary born in Quebec 11 Jul 1877 listed with the family in 1901.
In 1911 there is a male lodger Lessly Griffitts, age 6, apparently born in Quebec, Apr 1905.
James died 1926 in Quebec, Canada.
Children of James Townsend and Margaret Wickliffe:
James Edward
Walter J
Ernest
Mary (adopted)
Frederick William
Herbert McFadyen
Bertha Ellen
Beatrice Mary
Florence Gertrude Townsend
Gordon Russell
Sources:
1861 Census of Canada
1871 Census of Canada
1881 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
1901 Census of Canada
1911 Census of Canada
James was the son of Joseph Herrington Townsend and Margaret Pooley.
James married Margaret Wickcliffe in 1871 in Quebec, Canada.
There are 71 census page images for the 1891 Census of Canada for Chatham, Quebec. Searching each page located a mis-indexed entry for the family and reveals an adopted daughter from England!
The writing is very faint, and hard to make out, the name may be something like Millie or Miffet May. She was 13? and she and both parents were born in England.
She isn't listed with them in 1881 is likely the daughter Mary born in Quebec 11 Jul 1877 listed with the family in 1901.
In 1911 there is a male lodger Lessly Griffitts, age 6, apparently born in Quebec, Apr 1905.
James died 1926 in Quebec, Canada.
Children of James Townsend and Margaret Wickliffe:
James Edward
Walter J
Ernest
Mary (adopted)
Frederick William
Herbert McFadyen
Bertha Ellen
Beatrice Mary
Florence Gertrude Townsend
Gordon Russell
Sources:
1861 Census of Canada
1871 Census of Canada
1881 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
1901 Census of Canada
1911 Census of Canada
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Thankful Thursday - The poor Non-Genealogical Spouse
Have you ever left your spouse waiting on you to come to bed because:
A) 23andme had new Relative Finder cousins populate,
B) new 23andme test results came in
C) the 1940 census (or some other great new) became available to index or search at familysearch.org
D) Ancestry.com released a great new dataset
E) Long long relatives emailed and *must* be contacted back *immediately* to gather their genealogical knowledge
F) Geni/MyHeritage has added more record collections to RecordMatches, or you see a ton of new SmartMatches
I'm guilty of all that and more. So today I would like to publicly declare my gratitude for the often forgotten, poor Non-Genealogical Spouse (NGS). Especially my own.
A) 23andme had new Relative Finder cousins populate,
B) new 23andme test results came in
C) the 1940 census (or some other great new) became available to index or search at familysearch.org
D) Ancestry.com released a great new dataset
E) Long long relatives emailed and *must* be contacted back *immediately* to gather their genealogical knowledge
F) Geni/MyHeritage has added more record collections to RecordMatches, or you see a ton of new SmartMatches
I'm guilty of all that and more. So today I would like to publicly declare my gratitude for the often forgotten, poor Non-Genealogical Spouse (NGS). Especially my own.
It is the NGS who is left alone in bed while their spouse is up all night researching long dead ancestors.
It is often the NGS who is sent out to work in the "real world" so the Genealogical Spouse (GS) can spend more money on documents, subscriptions to genealogy sites, DNA tests and more!
It is often the NGS who is left at home while the genealogy addict attends conferences and rambles around graveyards and libraries. Or worse still, is dragged to cemeteries and libraries to "help"!
Since the 1940 census became available for indexing and arbitrating I have been working pretty hard on that (over 12,000 records arbitrated so far). Cooking and housework haven't been getting done very much by me, leaving it for my poor husband.
In the past I have sent my husband to libraries to retrieve copies of microfilm, dragged him to libraries so I could have two sets of eyes reading over microfilm, dragged him to libraries to research in Special Collections, taken him to photograph gravestones, sent him out to photograph gravestones, etc. And of course I have babbled endlessly about genealogy (he says that if I blogged about genealogy as much as I talk about genealogy the internet would be full lol).
My husband is a musician, and recently wrote a song about his sad NGS position. I'm curious as to what others NGS occupations are? (mine is also a carpenter, but thats not his passion, music is, and I find it as uninteresting as he finds my genealogy no doubt!) So please, give him a quick listen and VOTE for him here! I recommend 10 More Minutes but the other 2 are cute as well.
Seriously though, I am thankful for my wonderful husband who I adore and our 5 beautiful children (and one on the way!) Their patience with my lifelong genealogy addiction is amazing!
Update: I have now had him take an autosomal DNA test for genetic genealogy thru 23andme, see his video of taking the test HERE.
It is often the NGS who is left at home while the genealogy addict attends conferences and rambles around graveyards and libraries. Or worse still, is dragged to cemeteries and libraries to "help"!
Since the 1940 census became available for indexing and arbitrating I have been working pretty hard on that (over 12,000 records arbitrated so far). Cooking and housework haven't been getting done very much by me, leaving it for my poor husband.
In the past I have sent my husband to libraries to retrieve copies of microfilm, dragged him to libraries so I could have two sets of eyes reading over microfilm, dragged him to libraries to research in Special Collections, taken him to photograph gravestones, sent him out to photograph gravestones, etc. And of course I have babbled endlessly about genealogy (he says that if I blogged about genealogy as much as I talk about genealogy the internet would be full lol).
My husband is a musician, and recently wrote a song about his sad NGS position. I'm curious as to what others NGS occupations are? (mine is also a carpenter, but thats not his passion, music is, and I find it as uninteresting as he finds my genealogy no doubt!) So please, give him a quick listen and VOTE for him here! I recommend 10 More Minutes but the other 2 are cute as well.
Seriously though, I am thankful for my wonderful husband who I adore and our 5 beautiful children (and one on the way!) Their patience with my lifelong genealogy addiction is amazing!
Update: I have now had him take an autosomal DNA test for genetic genealogy thru 23andme, see his video of taking the test HERE.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Why take an autosomal DNA test?
Lately I have become a bit obsessed with genetic genealogy. The more people who test, the better for everyone as the larger the databases the better the chance of finding close cousin matches and being able to document a paper trail with your genetic cousins.
Autosomal DNA testing, unlike mtDNA testing or y-DNA testing, will match you with cousins who aren't necessarily on your direct paternal or direct maternal lines.
With a larger database we will be able to discover more leads into who unknown females are in our tree (and who doesnt have at least a half dozen Mary ?'s and/or Elizabeth ?'s in their tree?). We will also get more clues into what areas of the world to search for ancestors, and much more.
The test will show a 2nd cousin about 99% of the time and a 3rd cousin about 90% of the time. More distant cousins will also be shown, and there are often many of these predicted 4th to distant cousins (after all, most people have many, many distant cousins out there!)
Autosomal DNA testing can help confirm existing paper genealogies.
I currently have 1137 Relative Finder matches (genetic cousin matches at 23andme.) I have also tested my father, my paternal grandmother, my maternal half brother, my maternal half sister, my maternal grandfather, my maternal grandfathers sister and two 3rd cousins to my maternal grandfather, and a son of my maternal grandmothers sister.
By doing an autosomal DNA test you would be helping yourself, me (and others) with our genealogy. And its FUN!
23andme also has some neat health related info, which you can opt out of if you arent comfortable with that type of thing.
Please consider clicking on the 23andme logo below and ordering a DNA kit today!
Also check out my many other blog postings on autosomal DNA testing, genetic genealogy, some interesting things learned from my results and more!
Some of my "most wanted" testers are:
Descendants of Willard Woodman Slocum and Sarah Eliza McNutt
Descendants of Lewis Peverelli, born 1804 in Italy. Also, Peverelle/Peverellis that are NOT descendants of Lewis, but also have Como, Italy Peverelli ancestry. We have some Peverelle/Peverelli mysteries that I would love to solve!
Descendants of Thomas Mulligan and Dorothy Leatham of Ireland.
Descendants of William Bond Gabie and Margaret Mary Lowry (Lowrey).
Descendants of Joseph H Townsend and Margaret Pooley.
Descendants of Samuel Wickliffe of Ireland.
Descendant of William Dinsmore Haskill and Sybil Culver.
Descendants of Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost or Mercy (Hurd?)
If you are testing at 23andme, or have already tested, please let me know so I can check for a match at 23andme as non-matching can also be informative.
The test is really easy to do, see the post with video HERE of my husband doing his.
Autosomal DNA testing, unlike mtDNA testing or y-DNA testing, will match you with cousins who aren't necessarily on your direct paternal or direct maternal lines.
With a larger database we will be able to discover more leads into who unknown females are in our tree (and who doesnt have at least a half dozen Mary ?'s and/or Elizabeth ?'s in their tree?). We will also get more clues into what areas of the world to search for ancestors, and much more.
The test will show a 2nd cousin about 99% of the time and a 3rd cousin about 90% of the time. More distant cousins will also be shown, and there are often many of these predicted 4th to distant cousins (after all, most people have many, many distant cousins out there!)
Autosomal DNA testing can help confirm existing paper genealogies.
I currently have 1137 Relative Finder matches (genetic cousin matches at 23andme.) I have also tested my father, my paternal grandmother, my maternal half brother, my maternal half sister, my maternal grandfather, my maternal grandfathers sister and two 3rd cousins to my maternal grandfather, and a son of my maternal grandmothers sister.
By doing an autosomal DNA test you would be helping yourself, me (and others) with our genealogy. And its FUN!
23andme also has some neat health related info, which you can opt out of if you arent comfortable with that type of thing.
Please consider clicking on the 23andme logo below and ordering a DNA kit today!
Also check out my many other blog postings on autosomal DNA testing, genetic genealogy, some interesting things learned from my results and more!
Some of my "most wanted" testers are:
Descendants of Willard Woodman Slocum and Sarah Eliza McNutt
Descendants of Lewis Peverelli, born 1804 in Italy. Also, Peverelle/Peverellis that are NOT descendants of Lewis, but also have Como, Italy Peverelli ancestry. We have some Peverelle/Peverelli mysteries that I would love to solve!
Descendants of Thomas Mulligan and Dorothy Leatham of Ireland.
Descendants of William Bond Gabie and Margaret Mary Lowry (Lowrey).
Descendants of Joseph H Townsend and Margaret Pooley.
Descendants of Samuel Wickliffe of Ireland.
Descendant of William Dinsmore Haskill and Sybil Culver.
Descendants of Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost or Mercy (Hurd?)
If you are testing at 23andme, or have already tested, please let me know so I can check for a match at 23andme as non-matching can also be informative.
The test is really easy to do, see the post with video HERE of my husband doing his.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Pascal Petrin
Pascal was the son of Moise Petrin and Caroline Barbe.
Pascal married Bridget McConnery
Pascal died at Gracefield, Quebec in 1897.
Sources:
Baptism record
1871 Census of Canada
1881 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
death record
Pascal married Bridget McConnery
Pascal died at Gracefield, Quebec in 1897.
Sources:
Baptism record
1871 Census of Canada
1881 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
death record
Joseph Walter Monette
Joseph Walter Monette was John Monette and Martha Petrin.
Joseph Walter Monette married Anna Victoria Spearman.
Sources:
1901 Census of Canada
1911 Census of Canada
Joseph Walter Monette married Anna Victoria Spearman.
Sources:
1901 Census of Canada
1911 Census of Canada
Florence Gertrude Townsend
Florence was the daughter of James E Townsend and Margaret Wickliffe.
Florence was born 12 Jan 1891 or perhaps 20 Jan 1891 in Quebec, Canada. Her birth was registered in Grenville in 1893.
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| Grenville, 1893 |
On the 27th Jun 1916 Florence witnessed the marriage of her brother Gordon in Daleville, Quebec. At the time she must have been very pregnant!
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| Daleville, 1916 |
On the 5th of July 1916 in Montreal, she gave birth to Lillian Margaret Townsend.
Florence died 18 Oct 1918 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the flu epidemic.
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| photo supplied by Jean Mulligan Monette, her granddaughter. |
Lillian Margaret Townsend
Lillian was the daughter of Florence Gertrude Townsend.
The story passed down to her granddaughter was that her father was Harry Lloyd, and that he was engaged to Florence.
The story passed down to her granddaughter was that her father was Harry Lloyd, and that he was engaged to Florence.
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| photo supplied by Jean Mulligan, daughter of Lillian |
Irving Mason Ball Mulligan
Irvine was born 12 Aug 1901 in Quebec, Canada.
Irvine was the son of Richard Silas and Ellen Jane (Powell) Mulligan.
Irvine married Lillian Margaret Townsend.
Irvine died in 1994.
Irvine was the son of Richard Silas and Ellen Jane (Powell) Mulligan.
Irvine married Lillian Margaret Townsend.
Irvine died in 1994.
Ellen Jane Powell
Ellen was the daughter of Richard Powell and Mary Jane Starr.
Ellen Jane Powell married Richard Silas Mulligan.
Ellen Jane Powell married Richard Silas Mulligan.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Who is being blacked out??
The photographer died in 1896 so that is the latest year possible. We believe this is a picture of the Peverelle family. It was taken at the Red Lion Inn in Holt, England. It is possible that this is the Poncia family and not the Peverelle family but is believed to the the Peverelles. The Peverelle family were orginially the Peverelli family in Como, Italy, and many relatives immigrated to the Birmingham area.
Can anyone narrow down the date of this photo? Or identify anyone in it? *
Photo provided by Malcolm Benn.
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| Who is inked out??? |
Can anyone narrow down the date of this photo? Or identify anyone in it? *
Photo provided by Malcolm Benn.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
200 records each!
So I've been thinking....2 million unique viewers yesterday at the release of the 1940 census. Clearly we have interested people! 132 million or so records in the census to be indexed...each record is indexed twice...and heck lets assume every record also requires arbitration.
3 X 132 million = 396 million. 396 million divided by 2 million people = 198. So if everyone that tried to view the census yesterday were to index 200 records we would be done.
So, before whining there is no index yet, or that it took you 5 hours to find your person in the census, have YOU indexed 200 records?
SIGN UP HERE TO INDEX!
For the record, I have arbitrated over 200 records for the 1940 census already.
Common mistakes when indexing:
Now, for those of you who are doing your part (and likely more) and have already started the indexing, please watch this video for common mistakes. I am thrilled you are working on the indexing and these comments should not be taken as complaints, just constructive helps so I can focus on arbitrating other record mistakes and we can all get this done faster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettNuzgHKsU&feature=youtube_gdata
As I am arbitrating, I am noticing the many people make the mistake of adding the info to the columns 18 and 19 (residence in 1935) when the column 17 says "same house". These should be indexed as BLANK.
Another common thing I am seeing in records is "Neg" not being changed to "Negro" like it should be.
"In" is for Indian. (This is how Im arbitrating it anyhow, I realize that this is not ideal because of course North America was NOT India, but I am going with the "what is written on the page", and In is short for Indian), not "Native" or "American Indian" etc. Similarly, "Neg" is for "Negro" not "black" or "colored" or similar.
Another common mistake is with the number of household. "Number of Household" as it states in the "field help" "the number was usually written only once ....However, it needs to be indexed for all members of the same household." also "if the census taker began recording a household at the bottom of the previous census page and continued at the top of the page you are indexing, you should be able to find the household number on the previous image by" looking at the previous image.
Do check your own "Arbitration Results" to improve your indexing, it really does help!
I will work arbitrating until this 1940 census thing is done, so please keep up the great work!
What I'm currently working on: 1940 US census, Virginia. My current points this month: 1250. (updated 6:20 PM Apr 9) A few of those points are from other arbitrating I have done on Texas Death records etc.
I think it would be really great if we could get some kind of progress charts up, I realize that may be over-reaching with the server strain already, but I'd sure like to see some progress charts, leaderboards etc.
In the meantime, please comment on this post with your current points this month at familysearch.
Lets get this done in weeks not months! 200 records a person means it is entirely possible for us to be finished this in days! Lets beat Ancestry.com to having the complete index (and first index for every state too?!)
Update: FamilySearch and friends have completed their first state index for the 1940 census. The entire state of Delaware is now complete! Great job everyone! bolded % is from Apr 10th.
Colorado is 86% done 89%
Kansas is 82% done 86%
Oregon is 75% done. 82%
Virginia 23%
New Hampshire 17%
California 9%
Florida 6%
Oklahoma 4%
Texas 3%
Minnesota 3%
Alabama 3%
Illinois 2%
Lousianna 2%
Mississippi 2%
Pennsylvania 2%
Over at Ancestry.com they have completed the Delaware and the Nevada indexes. They are in the process of the District of Columbia index.
On a personal note, today I made my 1000 record goal, and set a new goal for 2000 records for the upcoming week.
Update: Most common indexing mistake I am finding now (Tuesday, April 10) is that when a child is under 5, no matter what is written for the 1935 residence columns use BLANK.
Latest Update (11:16 am Apr 11th):
I'm noticing that the almost done states have less than 7 days expirations on them.
Colorado 93%Kansas 89%
Oregon 89%
Virginia 39%
New Hampshire 25%
California 6% (?? down from 9%?)
Florida 7%
Oklahoma 5%
Texas 3%
Minnesota 5%
Alabama 5%
Illinois 2%
Lousianna 3%
Mississippi 3%
Pennsylvania 2%
Indiana 6%
Montana 1%
Arizona 2%
Nebraska 1%
Monday, April 2, 2012
1940 US census is here!
I'm so excited. Once a decade the census release day comes, and for me its a huge holiday! I am sitting here waiting for the first batches to index and arbitrate to become available.
Ancestry seems to be a bit ahead of FamilySearch in getting the browsable images for each state online.
I had no trouble viewing a census page at Ancestry.com, and havent tried yet on the other sites but I hear that 1.9 million visitors were causing issues for the National Archives. I predicted this, as I expected a huge number of people would want to browse and find their family right away.
As I have posted elsewhere, I will be focusing on helping with the FamilySearch indexing
Ancestry will be indexing the census on their own (Im assuming with their overseas non-English speaking indexing team, more on this later!) and putting it behind their paywall after some time. But for now there is this new Free Access offer from Ancestry.com to help you located your family the new 1940 census before it is indexed:
Ancestry seems to be a bit ahead of FamilySearch in getting the browsable images for each state online.
I had no trouble viewing a census page at Ancestry.com, and havent tried yet on the other sites but I hear that 1.9 million visitors were causing issues for the National Archives. I predicted this, as I expected a huge number of people would want to browse and find their family right away.
As I have posted elsewhere, I will be focusing on helping with the FamilySearch indexing
Ancestry will be indexing the census on their own (Im assuming with their overseas non-English speaking indexing team, more on this later!) and putting it behind their paywall after some time. But for now there is this new Free Access offer from Ancestry.com to help you located your family the new 1940 census before it is indexed:
Sunday, April 1, 2012
April Fool's from my daughter
Today, I went upstairs to get my littlest kids settled in bed. When I came downstairs, I looked at my inbox and it was filled with about 20 "Your Relative Finder Introduction was declined" from 23andMe Notifications. I almost fainted. They were all blank emails from my daughter, who temporarily changed her name on hotmail to fool me. I guess this gives you all an idea of how much of a pout and tantrum I pull when I get a decline that this was the one and only April Fool's trick my kids tried on me!
George Starr
George Starr was born in Ireland.
George Starr married Jane Johnston.
Sources:
1861 Census of Canada
1871 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
George Starr married Jane Johnston.
Sources:
1861 Census of Canada
1871 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
Richard Silas Mulligan
Richard was born 1865 in Quebec, Canada. His parents were James Mulligan and Jane Gabie.
Richard Silas Mulligan married Ellen Jane Powell.
Richard died 1953.
Richard was buried at Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada.
Sources:
1871 Census of Canada
1881 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
Richard Silas Mulligan married Ellen Jane Powell.
Richard died 1953.
Richard was buried at Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada.
Sources:
1871 Census of Canada
1881 Census of Canada
1891 Census of Canada
The 1940 census is coming tomorrow!
As I understand it Ancestry.com will be doing their own indexing and FamilySearch teamed with findmypast.com and Archives.com will be doing their own indexing.
The difference is that in 2013 Ancestry.com will put their index behind their pay wall, and the index by Familysearch and their associates will remain free (like all records) on FamilySearch.
I for one intend to arbitrate and index like a freak when it becomes available.
I was attending a webiner the other day by Thomas MacEntee about how to use the various search tools to find your people in the 1940 census without the index, but think about this: if you used that time to index instead, how quickly would we all be able to find everyone we are looking for. I personally intend to spend no time trying to find people without the index, and will spend my time working on the index.
You can sign up to index at https://the1940census.com
The difference is that in 2013 Ancestry.com will put their index behind their pay wall, and the index by Familysearch and their associates will remain free (like all records) on FamilySearch.
I for one intend to arbitrate and index like a freak when it becomes available.
I was attending a webiner the other day by Thomas MacEntee about how to use the various search tools to find your people in the 1940 census without the index, but think about this: if you used that time to index instead, how quickly would we all be able to find everyone we are looking for. I personally intend to spend no time trying to find people without the index, and will spend my time working on the index.
You can sign up to index at https://the1940census.com
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