Hi List, I received this from another mailing list! :) Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS) I received this newsletter today which covers info about the 1930 Census which is coming out in April: FAMILY TREE FINDERS Monday – 26 November 2001 Gearing Up for the 1930 Census As we have discussed before, the 1930 census will soon be available. Its release date is 1 April 2002. What this means is that the National Archives and its 13 NARA branches will have the Soundex and census films available that day. For those of us who access these films from another repository, that date will come and go and the films will not yet be available. According to the National Archives' web page on the 1930 census (http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/1930cen.html), those repositories that pre-order whole states or the whole country will be shipped their film the first week of April. It will take some time for those repositories to catalog and then make the films available. The other disappointing news is the fact that the 1930 census is only partially Soundexed. Like the 1910 census, we will have to narrow our research using other methods. Like the 1910 census, there are census enumeration district descriptions. These are on microfilm, and the National Archives 1930 census Web page shows what films of micropublication T1224 pertain to the 1930 census and for what state. If your repository does not have these films, you can order them directly from the National Archives, paying for just the film that you need for the state where your ancestors are from. Locating your ancestor in city directories, for those with urban ancestors, you can use these census enumeration descriptions, the address in the city directory and a map of the area, preferably showing city divisions, such as assembly districts or wards of the city, to narrow your research to a select few enumeration districts rather than having to search all enumeration districts. While some of the states were Soundexed, the majority of us will need to use a method such as this one. So, as we wait for the release of the 1930 census we can begin to prepare. This way when the films are finally available to us, we will be able to focus in on the select enumeration districts rather than beginning our preparation then. Before we know it April will be here and then soon after the films will hopefully be available through our various genealogy repositories. While patience is not a genealogist's strong suit, at least you can be doing something toward the 1930 census research rather than having to sit by and twiddle thumbs. You will also want to check out some of the USGenWeb sites over the next couple of months. Some of them will begin to make available tax lists, or other lists that may help you to further narrow down the locality of your ancestor within those larger cities. Rhonda R. McClure rhondam@sodamail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~     S  O  D  A  M  A  I  L          If you know someone who would be interested in reading this   newsletter, please forward this entire message to them!           This is one of 25 Sodamail award winning newsletters   and they're all FREE... go to http://www.sodamail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO SUBSCRIBE VIA E-MAIL Send blank email message to:       mailto:join-sodamail+FT@gt.sodamail.com Diana in AL audiana@webtv.net searching for RITTER, NEUKIRCH/NIEKIRK/ NEWKIRK, DeTURK, BERTOLET, YODER, MOHR/MOORE, KERST, GELBACH, KIELER in Berks Co PA SAVAGE, LANDIS, JONES, DUGAN in Chester Co SAVAGE, MORGAN, PALMER, EVANS in Philadelphia Co PA HODGSON, DEAN in TN DEAN, HANEY, WILLIAMS in AL, TN DEAN, RIPPEE in MO SAVAGE, LACEY, MOHR in KS, AZ and OR