This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACI/249 Message Board Post: Hello New Mexican Researcher, I am sending you an update of the latest progress report about the NMDI’s Projects on the Census Index and Section 3 of the Death Index sent to the Volunteers and Donors. I have deleted some section of the update, as they had to deal with only the Volunteers and Donors. = Here is an update on the 1930 Census Project & Section 3 of the NMDI Project. If you tried to contact me at my NMIA email account and have not heard a reply. This is due to problems getting into the email account. It has been fix today! So far, 6 counties of the 1930 NM Census Index have been completed. These counties are Catron, Curry, Guadalupe, McKinley, Roosevelt and Valencia. When all the counties are completed, they will be combined into a searchable database. The Holiday Season is coming around and the greeting cards will be filling your mailbox. I ask all of you to save the used stamps on those greeting cards. I am saving the stamps for our project (I used to save these stamps for charity, but out project need funds). I do have a bag full of stamps, but I need your help in filling up as many bags as possible. When I go to California for a check-up in February, I will be selling those stamps to a stamp dealer and that money will go toward the budget. Depending on what is in the bags, the dealer will pay between $3 to $7 dollars per kilo (in weight). So, please save those used stamps and send them to me after the New Year. In tearing off the stamps, please leave some paper around the stamp, not to tear or cut the stamp/s. And any kinds of stamps (foreign or USA – and duplicates too) are welcome. [address: P. O. Box 53184, Albuquerque, NM 87153-3184] Now, lets get into the budget. Sadly, we are still in the RED. But I have not been pushing the fundraising recently, due to bad health. But I will be blitzing the net to get money coming in. I can use your help. If you have emails of people, but do not want to bother them yourself, send me their email addresses and I will send them an email in the New Year about the project at: newmexdi@hotmail.com. The money raised to date is $539.50. And the budget for the Census Project to date is $904.65. We still need to pay back the Section 3 fund of $545.80, so we are in debt of $910.95 (OUCH!). This brings me to something I am unhappy about. There are 6 volunteers whom have not check-in or responded to a number of emails and 2 letters I had sent out. I will make a decision about replacing them (adding cost to our budget, where we have no money) in the New Year. I am hoping the missing volunteers will contact me ASAP about their participation in the project (hopefully it will before the end of the year). This brings me to ask for more volunteers. If you know of anyone whom has a computer with MS Excel or Works (or any word processing programme), please have them contact me at: newmexdi@hotmail.com. As we put a deadline for the end of December for this project to be completed. As we are in December and many of you are still busy working away, we have pushed the goal for the deadline of the project for end of March/beginning of April of 2003. And we do ask you (if you have not already) to check in for December. But you will get a break for January, as the next check-in will be at the end of January. I will then be able to make an update report at the beginning of February. When the counties are being completed, Gina will be posting that specific county in their NMGenWeb Archives File website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm. When the project is completed, all the counties will be combined into an engine search and still leaving the specific counties in their Archives File websites. The NMDI (New Mexico Death Index) also will be in this engine search format once the Section 3 of the project is completed. Section 3 of the NMDI Project is on-hold until we completed the Census Index Project. More info about Section 3 will be reported in the next update in February. Hope all of you have a Happy Holiday Season. Bye for now, Sam-Quito Padilla G. Head Coordinator, NMDI Projects http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmdi.htm = _________________________________________________________ MSN Motor: Köp & sälj din bil här http://carview.msn.se/bilsok/