Alan, Thanks for all of this. I thought we had to wait 70 years, not 72 years for a census. Debbie Alan J. Kania wrote: > I just noticed there will NOT be an index available when the 1940 US > Census is released. Researchers will be required to know the > Enumeration District in the city or town where the ancestors lived. > Apparently Steve Morse is working on a project to create a free time- > saving tool to address this. For those of us going to the Chicago > conference will probably get a first-hand explanation about what the > project entails. > > -- Alan > > > On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Debbie Greenlee wrote: > >> Wondering if anyone has heard anything about the U.S. 1940 census >> which should be available in two years. Has ancestry.com or LDS >> said anything about indexing/transcribing the census? I remember when >> the 1930 census was made public, very little, if any (can't remember >> now) had been indexed/transcribed and we had to wait for ancestry.com >> to do the job. >> >> Just curious. >> Debbie > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >