Excuse me? Would you like to rephrase that Colleen? On 10/31/12, Colleen <ladyaudris@earthlink.net> wrote: > Now I've shoved an entire fist down my throat!! > > c > > > On 10/30/2012 10:42 PM, Tina Vickery wrote: >> Genealogy is such a fun hobby! >> >> It is so awesome that Lamar County Genealogical Society & Library >> members and USGenWeb Project members were able to accomplish this >> *and* benefit the Lamar County Genealogical Society and the greater >> genealogical community in the process! The USGenWeb Project working >> with Societies is a good thing!! >> --- >> A small group of genealogists got together and decided to help index >> and arbitrate the 1940 census for familysearch.org to make these >> images searchable and easier to use by researchers. They dedicated >> their efforts to the Lamar County Genealogical Society. As a partner >> society, the Lamar County Genealogical Society was eligible to win >> some great prizes for the society library. >> >> On April 2, 2012, NARA released the digital images of the 1940 United >> States Federal Census after a 72 year embargo. These census images >> were uploaded and made available on familysearch.org. Additionally, >> the entire 1940 census data was indexed by a community of volunteers >> and made available for free. The free index of the census records and >> corresponding images are available to the public for perpetuity. This >> project was predicted to take eight months to finish yet it was >> completed in just 124 days—four full months ahead of schedule! On >> August 4, 2012, just before 2:00 p.m. (MDT), the very last batch of >> the 1940 US Census was arbitrated and submitted for publication. The >> indexing portion of the 1940 US Census Community Project was >> officially done! >> >> There are 22,693,907 searchable records. In all, 434 societies across >> the United States participated in indexing these records. There were >> 163,285 volunteers. The nine volunteers from Lamar County indexed and >> arbitrated 560,844 records! They won the May contest for most records >> indexed - small society category (2-15 participating members). They >> won the June contest for most records arbitrated - small society >> category. They were in 5th place for overall production even ahead of >> large societies with over 100 members participating. They finished in >> 2nd place in the number of records arbitrated. They finished in 1st >> place for overall production -small society category and in 2nd place >> in per capita production. Two of the volunteers were in the top 10 >> producers out of the 163,285 volunteers! >> >> A huge “Thank you!” goes to the Lamar County volunteers: Joy Fisher, >> CA; Gayle Triller, OR; Marceline Beem, FL; Tina Vickery, ME; Sundee >> Anderson, GA; Sue Cravy, McKinney, TX; Debra Usry, Mary Tallant, and >> Betsy Mills, all of Paris. >> >> As a result of the combined efforts of these nine volunteers, they won >> goodie bags for each member of the team and these prizes for the Lamar >> County Genealogical Society: >> 2 laptop computers, a projector, an HD webcam, 4 one-hour Family >> History Library live webinar sessions, an annual subscription >> toGoToWebinar (a webinar provider service), and a $1,700 Amazon gift >> card! >> >> http://theparisnews.com/news/article_512fcd82-1d24-11e2-9f9d-0019bb2963f4.html >> >> --- >> >> Tina Vickery >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >