Re: GAWARE-D Digest V02 #113 Re: 1930 Census Help Judy, It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. A friend sent me the message below about the recorded message at the National Archives. Ancestry.com only has Delaware posted so far. Site says 'today' that they plan to add one a week. Yesterday, the site said the 1930 Census would be made available within hours of their receipt of it. Does this mean that we Southerners will not have an alphabetical index available to us? Some of the other years are only 'partially' indexed as well. Sharon ------------------------------------------------------------ According to a National Archives recorded message, part of the 1930 Census records are indexed using the Soundex coding system that allows people to search for a last name by sound rather than spelling. But that system has been used only for Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia. Census researchers seeking data about people who lived in "non-indexed states" were warned they probably will have more difficulty finding them, especially if they do not know where in a state a person lived.