Some ethnic groups are questioning the dropping of questions about folk’s ancestry in the 2010 census. Money is involved… Following is an excerpt from an article in the December 31, 2009 edition of Vindy.com. Note that race questions are included. Question 8 asks about Hispanic Origins, while Question 9 also deals with race. However, the [...]
Family Roots Publishing is now offering Dollarhide’s new “Census Substitutes and States Census Records” as a package of the two volumes.
In this two volume series, acclaimed author William Dollarhide identifies Census Substitutes, as well as State Census Records for the United States of America. The substitutes are those name lists derived from tax lists, [...]
The following news release was prepared by Justin Schroepfer, Marketing Director for Footnote.com.
OCTOBER 29, 2009 - LINDON, Utah: Today Footnote.com (http://www.footnote.com) announced it will digitize and create a searchable database for all publicly available U.S. Federal Censuses ranging from the first U.S. Census taken in 1790 to the most current public census [...]
U.S. residents are being encouraged to fill out those census forms when we get them - and not wait until someone shows up at the door, because we didn’t get around to answering those 10 questions. Following is an excerpt from an article about the topic.
Ten years ago, said Gentry, who is the LCO [...]
They say it will only be 10 questions - and take about minutes to complete. Let’s hope those ten questions are genealogically useful in 2082.
According to the Census 2010 Newsletter, the scope of the operation includes counting nearly 310 million people within a few months, delivering more than 134 million questionnaires, managing almost [...]
I ran onto an article about the upcoming census in a newspaper while eating dinner at a restaurant in Redding, California this evening. It looks to me like an all-out effort is about to be untaken to make sure that the 2010 Federal Decennial census questionnaire is read, answered, and the data collected as accurately [...]
The following Content Updates are from Gary Gibb, VP U.S. Content at Ancestry.com. This information was included in an email received October 6, 2009 from Anastasia Tyler, PR and Events Manager.
The following collections are coming soon to Ancestry.com:
Improved U.S. Census Collection (1790-1840)
Description: Ancestry.com will be release all of the early census years with [...]
In browsing the blogs this evening, I ran across an interesting article called “Filling in That 10-Year Gap,” by Allison Aston at The ProGenealogists Blog. Allison writes about a family whose children were in an orphanage for a period of time following the death of their mother. So when located in the 1900 [...]
28 September 2009: Volunteers with Rhode Island roots will be excited about the new indexing projects this week. The Rhode Island 1905 and 1935 State Censuses were added. New international projects for Argentina, Germany, Philippines, Spain, and the U.K. were also added.
Note: the links within the charts won’t work as they are just images [...]
The following news release is courtesy of Paul Nauta, FamilySearch:
28 September 2009 - Family researchers seeking their Mexican heritage have two million new records at their fingertips this week with an update to the 1930 Census collection. There are also new indexes and images for France, Italy, Slovakia, Argentina, and the United States. These [...]
As a Footnote fan and subscriber, I just got the following note:
The 1930 US Census is one of the most powerful resources available to anyone who wants to learn more about their ancestors.
During the month of August, we’re giving everyone free access to Footnote.com’s one-of-a-kind, interactive 1930 US Census.
With Footnote’s interactive census, viewing, downloading and [...]
Thanks to Paul Nauta for the following press release:
June 17, 2009: Six million new records were added to the FamilySearch Record Search pilot this week. The much anticipated Louisiana and Idaho death records are now available. The states of Delaware, District of Columbia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, and New Mexico were added to the 1920 [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau maintains a website where you can check the frequency of your Surname. It’s based on data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Censuses, so don’t expect any European data here.
In checking the MEITZLER surname, I found that it’s the 42,872nd most common name in the country. It has a [...]
The following are three data sets are recently completed projects that have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process in preparation for future publication:
Argentina Censo 1869—Catamarca y La Rioja
Minnesota—1920 U.S. Federal Census
Minnesota Probate Court Wills 1849–1918
Current FamilySearch Indexing Projects, Record Language, & [...]
Eleven new indexing projects were added this week, most of them international. Five of the projects are birth, marriage, and death records for France.
New indexing projects added this week were:
INTERNATIONAL
Argentina Censo 1869—Jujuy Salta Tucuman
Canada, British Columbia Births, 1854–1903
France, Paroisses de Cherbourg, 1802–1907
France, Paroisses de Saint-Lo, 1802–1907
France, Paroisses de Coutances, 1802–1907
France Registres Protestants, [...]
