-----Original Message----- From: Bobbie Ross <bwross@htcomp.net> To: 'bartlett@vvm.com' <bartlett@vvm.com> Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 4:50 PM Subject: RE: [TXCORYEL-L] 1930 census | |Would be fine with me, I got it from another list! |---------- |From: MaryAnn Bartlett |Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 4:24 PM |To: bwross@htcomp.net |Subject: Re: [TXCORYEL-L] 1930 census | |Bobbie, hope you are feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed by now! Would you |mind if I forwarded this e-mail from you to the Bell County List....or, to |Bill Bost, list owner and let him post it? | |Thanks, |Ann |-----Original Message----- |From: Bobbie Ross <bwross@htcomp.net> |To: TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com <TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com> |Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 3:40 PM |Subject: [TXCORYEL-L] 1930 census | | ||List members, I thought this was interesting. Bobbbie || ||>This was found on the Oklahoma genweb pages: ||>********************************************* ||> >From the Copper State Journal ||>Arizona State Genealogical Society, Inc. ||> ||>According to sources familiar with the National Archives and Records ||>Administration, the 1930 US Census scheduled for release sometime in the ||>year 2002, after the 72 year restriction on public access, is only ||>partially indexed in Soundex format. The indexing of the census was a ||>Works Projects Administration (WPA) project to employ people during the ||>depression years of the 1930's. The census index project started with ||>the southern states and was only able to complete indexes for Alabama, ||>Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South ||>Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia plus seven counties in Kentucky and ||>seven counties in West Virginia before it was stopped by labor demands ||>for World War II projects. ||> ||>So if you were looking for an easy search for missing persons in the ||>1930 census be prepared to do some page by page searching unless you are ||>lucky enough to have persons in one of the few indexed states. ||> ||>For more information about the 1930 and later census indexes, queries ||>can be sent to inquire@nara.gov ||> ||>Clarie Prechtel-Kluskens ||>Archivist/Genealogy Specialist ||>Archives I User Services Branch (NWDTA) ||>National Archives Washington, DC 20408 ||>******************************************* || | | | |