I just have to share the news! The Lamar County [TX] Genealogical Society won several of the prizes for indexing the 1940 Census. Our team of volunteers indexed/arbitrated 560,844 records. That meant we won the Grand Prize for Overall Production for a small genealogical society. Second place behind us only indexed/arbitrated 218,296 records. In fact, we beat out many of the large societies, coming in 5th when counted against them and some of these societies had over a hundred members participating in the indexing project. The society will receive 4 one-hour Family History Library sessions of our choice, a projector, a laptop computer, an HD webcam, and an annual subscription to GoToWebinar (a webinar provider service). We also placed 2nd in the Per Capita Production contest. Because the prize for 2nd place was the same as the Overall Production prize, we will receive a $1700 Amazon gift card! We also won the May competition for the most records indexed and received a laptop for that prize. Then we won the June competition for the most records arbitrated and each member on our team will receive a goodie bag for that. All in all, we had a great time and helped get the indexing done in record time. Family Search had predicted that it would take 8 months to complete the indexing and it was completed in 4 months!! What great satisfaction we all have in helping get these records prepared for free online access. Most of the members of our genealogical society team are also members of USGenWeb, so I feel it is appropriate to share this news and do a little bragging!! Betsy

Wow, impressive! Thank you for all your hard work. My local gen. society participated, but we came nowhere near your totals. Guess I can claim bragging rights for "knowing" someone in the winning society! Alice Allen NENC CC Rep -----Original Message----- From: state-coord-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:state-coord-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Betsy Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:05 PM To: txgen@rootsweb.com; state-coord@rootsweb.com; argen@rootsweb.com Subject: [STATE-COORD] Bragging!! I just have to share the news! The Lamar County [TX] Genealogical Society won several of the prizes for indexing the 1940 Census. Our team of volunteers indexed/arbitrated 560,844 records. That meant we won the Grand Prize for Overall Production for a small genealogical society. Second place behind us only indexed/arbitrated 218,296 records. In fact, we beat out many of the large societies, coming in 5th when counted against them and some of these societies had over a hundred members participating in the indexing project. The society will receive 4 one-hour Family History Library sessions of our choice, a projector, a laptop computer, an HD webcam, and an annual subscription to GoToWebinar (a webinar provider service). <snip>

Very impressive. Good job. Vivian Price Saffold Assistant State Coordinator The GAGenWeb Project At 04:04 PM 8/13/2012, you wrote: >I just have to share the news! > >The Lamar County [TX] Genealogical Society won several of the prizes >for indexing the 1940 Census. Our team of volunteers >indexed/arbitrated 560,844 records. That meant we won the Grand >Prize for Overall Production for a small genealogical >society. Second place behind us only indexed/arbitrated 218,296 >records. In fact, we beat out many of the large societies, coming in >5th when counted against them and some of these societies had over a >hundred members participating in the indexing project. The society >will receive 4 one-hour Family History Library sessions of our >choice, a projector, a laptop computer, an HD webcam, and an annual >subscription to GoToWebinar (a webinar provider service). > >We also placed 2nd in the Per Capita Production contest. Because >the prize for 2nd place was the same as the Overall Production prize, >we will receive a $1700 Amazon gift card! > >We also won the May competition for the most records indexed and >received a laptop for that prize. Then we won the June competition >for the most records arbitrated and each member on our team will >receive a goodie bag for that. > >All in all, we had a great time and helped get the indexing done in >record time. Family Search had predicted that it would take 8 months >to complete the indexing and it was completed in 4 months!! What >great satisfaction we all have in helping get these records prepared >for free online access. > >Most of the members of our genealogical society team are also members >of USGenWeb, so I feel it is appropriate to share this news and do a >little bragging!! > >Betsy > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Betsy, That is fantastic! Congratulations, and thank you and your group for helping to make the 1940 census available to all of us. Pat Asher At 04:04 PM 8/13/2012, Betsy wrote: >I just have to share the news! > >The Lamar County [TX] Genealogical Society won several of the prizes >for indexing the 1940 Census. Our team of volunteers >indexed/arbitrated 560,844 records. That meant we won the Grand >Prize for Overall Production for a small genealogical >society. Second place behind us only indexed/arbitrated 218,296 >records. In fact, we beat out many of the large societies, coming in >5th when counted against them and some of these societies had over a >hundred members participating in the indexing project. The society >will receive 4 one-hour Family History Library sessions of our >choice, a projector, a laptop computer, an HD webcam, and an annual >subscription to GoToWebinar (a webinar provider service).

Betsy, Congratulations to you and the Lamar County volunteers who did a great job in achieving such a milestone! Nothing wrong with bragging rights. Deloris Williams NCGenWeb, ASC#1 - http://www.ncgenweb.us/ NCGenWeb, County Coordinator for: Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Vance Counties -------------------------------------------------- From: "Betsy" <betsyamills@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 3:04 PM To: <txgen@rootsweb.com>; <state-coord@rootsweb.com>; <argen@rootsweb.com> Subject: [STATE-COORD] Bragging!! > I just have to share the news! > > The Lamar County [TX] Genealogical Society won several of the prizes > for indexing the 1940 Census. Our team of volunteers > indexed/arbitrated 560,844 records. That meant we won the Grand > Prize for Overall Production for a small genealogical > society. Second place behind us only indexed/arbitrated 218,296 > records. In fact, we beat out many of the large societies, coming in > 5th when counted against them and some of these societies had over a > hundred members participating in the indexing project. The society > will receive 4 one-hour Family History Library sessions of our > choice, a projector, a laptop computer, an HD webcam, and an annual > subscription to GoToWebinar (a webinar provider service). > > We also placed 2nd in the Per Capita Production contest. Because > the prize for 2nd place was the same as the Overall Production prize, > we will receive a $1700 Amazon gift card! > > We also won the May competition for the most records indexed and > received a laptop for that prize. Then we won the June competition > for the most records arbitrated and each member on our team will > receive a goodie bag for that. > > All in all, we had a great time and helped get the indexing done in > record time. Family Search had predicted that it would take 8 months > to complete the indexing and it was completed in 4 months!! What > great satisfaction we all have in helping get these records prepared > for free online access. > > Most of the members of our genealogical society team are also members > of USGenWeb, so I feel it is appropriate to share this news and do a > little bragging!! > > Betsy > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That is indeed great news! I've noticed that your society was always among the top leaders on the Society Leaderboard at https://the1940census.com/society/society-dashboard/ - you should definitely be VERY proud of your accomplishments. I love to hear this kind of great, positive news. Kudos to everyone involved! I coordinated an indexing group for the TNGenWeb. We didn't produce as much as yours did, but I was very proud to see our genweb group represent so well. We had about 50 people indexing and did about 350,000 names. I blogged about it at http://tngenweb.org/blog/tngenweb-rocked-1940-census-indexing/. From the great effort that came from that, we also now have a group of volunteers to help with future indexing projects for TNGenWeb - we are working on putting together some options now to try and continue and engage some of those that signed up for the census project. Maybe they will become longer-term genweb volunteers :-) I'm hoping you'll share with us more once you get your webinar subscription up and running - we can never have too many webinars! -- Taneya Y. Koonce, MSLS, MPH TNGenWeb State Coordinator NCGenWeb & FLGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator -- My Genealogy Blog - www.taneya-kalonji.com/genblog Find Me On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/taneya Connect with me on Google Plus - gplus.to/taneya USGenWeb Volunteer for TNGenWeb, NCGenWeb, & FLGenWeb "She is insane of course. The family history has become a mania for her." -- Hercule Poirot On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Betsy <betsyamills@gmail.com> wrote: > I just have to share the news! > > The Lamar County [TX] Genealogical Society won several of the prizes > for indexing the 1940 Census. Our team of volunteers > indexed/arbitrated 560,844 records. That meant we won the Grand > Prize for Overall Production for a small genealogical > society. Second place behind us only indexed/arbitrated 218,296 > records. In fact, we beat out many of the large societies, coming in > 5th when counted against them and some of these societies had over a > hundred members participating in the indexing project. The society > will receive 4 one-hour Family History Library sessions of our > choice, a projector, a laptop computer, an HD webcam, and an annual > subscription to GoToWebinar (a webinar provider service). > > We also placed 2nd in the Per Capita Production contest. Because > the prize for 2nd place was the same as the Overall Production prize, > we will receive a $1700 Amazon gift card! > > We also won the May competition for the most records indexed and > received a laptop for that prize. Then we won the June competition > for the most records arbitrated and each member on our team will > receive a goodie bag for that. > > All in all, we had a great time and helped get the indexing done in > record time. Family Search had predicted that it would take 8 months > to complete the indexing and it was completed in 4 months!! What > great satisfaction we all have in helping get these records prepared > for free online access. > > Most of the members of our genealogical society team are also members > of USGenWeb, so I feel it is appropriate to share this news and do a > little bragging!! > > Betsy > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >