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Information on 1930 census
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jana Black" <janab(a)websweweave.net>
To: <USGENWEB-ALL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 7:52 PM
Subject: [ALL-L] April 1930 Census Release
> Hi all,
>
> I spent today at the San Bruno CA NARA branch attending a training day for
> volunteers who need to be equipped to help folks use the 1930 Census when
it
> comes out in April.... First comment.... it ain't gonna be easy. Only 11
> southern states are soundexed and there is no indexing. This means folks
> will have to use city guides and maps to identify enumeration districts,
> etc. The preliminary process was averaging one hour per record today....
> daunting to say the least.
>
> I was asked at the end of the day if I had any comments from a GenWeb
POV...
> I had no comments but asked "if the volunteers had a Wish List What could
> GenWeb do to make their job easier...."
>
> In a heartbeat, 3 answers came back:
>
> 1) I have requested that SCs research and post a list on their State Site
> regarding which City Guides are available for their state and what
> repositories have those guides, or how folks can get those guides, to give
> folks a way to prepare BEFORE they hit the archives. NARA would like to
> create binders of these lists to have available for researchers.
>
> 2) I have asked SCs to consider what links to any mapping resources they
> might have for the 1930s.
>
> 3) FOR CCs! Here is what NARA would like from CCS..... I would like to ask
> you to consider trying to find someone to help transcribe the 1930 county
> telephone directory for your county and add it to your pages....
Obviously,
> this will help some researchers and not help others at all as in 1930,
many
> folks were still w/o phones.....nevertheless, it would at least supply
> another start place for people and it would bring lots of traffic to our
> cites and certainly improve the image of how important our Project is in
the
> public eye!
>
> The release is April 1 ... figured we might as well try to think of how we
> can be part of the bandwagon :)
>
> Jana
>
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Holly Timm" <hollyft(a)bright.net>
To: <USGENWEB-SW-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:28 PM
Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Wanted - Board Secretary
> (please forward as appropriate)
>
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> and be able to work with the National Coordinator.
>
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> order to post
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>
> Those who are interested should write Holly Timm, the National
Coordinator, at
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position.
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