Wonderful news about the USGenWeb Project Volunteers!
Maureen Mead
SC CTGenWeb:
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CC Fairfield Co. CT:
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From: Tina Vickery <tsvickery(a)gmail.com>
To: state-coord <state-coord(a)rootsweb.com>; usgenweb-sw
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Sent: Tue, Oct 30, 2012 9:43 pm
Subject: [STATE-COORD] USGebWeb and Lamar County Genealogical Society
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!!
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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...
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Tina Vickery
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