I've been doing indexing of the 1940 census for FamilySearch since it was released. The images are in much better shape than previous images but as in other census, some of the handwriting is a pain. FamilySearch provides a program that you install on your computer and batches of records may be downloaded into it. You have a time period in which to finish the batches or they must be returned. Once you've uploaded those you've finished they are reviewed by an arbitrator to evaluate questionable transcriptions. There are few instances where you might be allowed to "correct" the enumerator (ie. locations). Names are transcribed as written no matter how screwed up they may appear. Corrections to them, I believe, will be made by those researching those individuals. I think because they may be in a better position to know. I've only started doing this, this year and have only uploaded about 1000 individuals - just a neophyte!! On 4/14/2012 4:36 PM, Gale Gorman wrote: > 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 > > ===== > 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 > >