I really don't know why Ancestor.com say they have this census. I for one should be in it and have not found any of my family. Does anyone knew if there is a secret to finding people?? This site sure was a waste of money as far as I am concerned. The Other years they have are fine but not the 1940's

It has not yet been indexed and until then you will not find them using the search engine. It was only released by the government April 1st so you can't expect results until the volunteers get the indexing completed. On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:46 PM, DeAnn Leonard <deannleonard@centurylink.net > wrote: > I really don't know why Ancestor.com say they have this census. I for one > should be in it and have not found any of my family. Does anyone knew if > there is a secret to finding people?? This site sure was a waste of money > as > far as I am concerned. The Other years they have are fine but not the > 1940's > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to > roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- ~~~~~ Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nelancas/

Give it time. I imagine a lot of people are working on indexing but no one was allowed to start until April 2nd. It takes a ton of work to go from the census format to a record searchable by computer. Gale Gorman Houston On Apr 14, 2012, at 2:46 PM, DeAnn Leonard wrote: I really don't know why Ancestor.com say they have this census. I for one should be in it and have not found any of my family. Does anyone knew if there is a secret to finding people?? This site sure was a waste of money as far as I am concerned. The Other years they have are fine but not the 1940's

Well, they say they have it because they do <G> But to find your people in 1940 you need to know where they lived, then you go to stevemorse.org and use the ED finder for 1940 (this is useful for people who are hiding in 1930) take a look at the page and give it a try. I then go directly to archives.gov because it seems to work best <G> Anyway you may have to hunt thru 80 pages rather than 800 or more. Eliz On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:46 PM, DeAnn Leonard <deannleonard@centurylink.net> wrote: > I really don't know why Ancestor.com  say they have this census.  I for one > should be in it and have not found any of my family.  Does anyone knew if > there is a secret to finding people?? This site sure was a waste of money as > far as I am concerned.   The Other years they have are fine but not the > 1940's > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message