1940Census.com Updates

Time to warm up those fingers and start helping to index the 1940's census.  You may register to index at Getting Started.  There are wonderful contests and prizes for donating your time and fingers to indexing!  To find out more please visit The 1940 Census.

There are currently thirteen states available for indexing:
Delaware is 95% complete and should be completed shortly.
Virginia
Kansas
Oregon
Colorado
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Alabama
Minnesota
New Hampshire
California
Pennsylvania

The coming weeks shall bring the following states available (the order of release is subject to change):
Texas
New York
Illinois
Indiana
Utah
Missouri
North Carolina
Ohio
Washington
Georgia
Idaho
Maryland
Nebraska
Tennessee
Kentucky
Arkansas
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nevada
South Carolina
Wisconsin
Arizona
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Iowa
Maine
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Vermont
West Virginia
Wyoming
Alaska Territory
Hawaii Territory
Guam
Panama Canal Zone
American Samoa
US Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Poundstone Family death certificates

Image
The death certificates arrived yesterday. John Newton Poundstone's DC was signed by his wife Charlottie.  Information provided includes length of stay in this place (Cerro Gordo, Illinois) 73 years; occupation:  common laborer; DOB; DOD; burial date; cemetery - Cerro Gordo; funeral home - Freese Funeral Service of Cerro Gordo; and cause of death: carcinoma of the stomach, chronic myocarditis. Ora Pearl Poundstone's DC was signed by his son Herbert.  Address noted of 801 N Morgan Street, Bement, Piatt, Illinois - length of residence thirty years.  Occupation:  drayman for the Bement Grain Company.  SSN; DOB; DOD; burial date; cemetery - Bement Cemetery; funeral home - Roux Funeral Home in Bement; and cause of death carcinoma of the sigmoid (colon), chronic myocarditis. The brothers John Newton (85) and Ora Pearl (84) both died in their eighties with similar causes of death. Their father Richard Poundstone's information was provided by son Ora Pearl.  Richard died
Read more

Tucson History - St. Mary’s Hospital and Sanitarium

Image
cir 1885                                                                                     cir 1910 Dedicated in 1880, St. Mary’s hospital was fully supported by the residents of Tucson. Originally it had been planned as a school, however, the Bishop Salpointe decided to make the school a hospital as it neared its completion. The hospital opened with twelve beds, Dr. John C. Hardy, and four Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelot: Sister St. Martin Dunn, Sister Julia Ford, Sister Basil Morris, and Sister Mary John Noli. A second story was added to the hospital in 1882. The physician staff grew by six and the hospital had the capacity of fifty beds by 1900.   The Arizona State Genealogical Society sells a book documenting admissions to the hospital 1909 to 1920.
Read more