1940 US Census Indexing is Complete!

We Did It!

The Parkcrest Ward Indexed 157,376 Records

We arbitrated 4623 Records

Grand Total:  161, 999 Records

Thanks to all who joined in the Indexing of the 1940 Census!

We really appreciate all the hours you spent in this great project.

Note from 1940 US Census Community Project… August 3, 2012

“We finished indexing and arbitrating the 1940 U.S. Census! And we did it in just 124 days. Fantastic! Thank you to every volunteer who contributed and did their very best to produce a high-quality index of the census for current and future generations to freely search.

It will take a few weeks to finish publishing the indexes for the remaining states. You can continue to watch the FamilySearch 1940 U.S. Census website to know when more states are made searchable name-by-name.

What's Next?

We're still working to make billions of additional records searchable for free online. Our next big indexing effort will focus on U.S. immigration and naturalization. To learn more, watch this video or visit the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization website.

To participate now, look for the US (Community Project) label on the Download Batch list. Check the Project Instructions and Field Help tabs within each batch to learn how to index the records accurately.”  

We are nearing our Goal of 150,000 Names Indexed!

Our ward has indexed 34,420 names of the 1940 Census in July. That brings our total to 141,651. That leaves us 8349 names to do in the next 10 days to achieve our goal of 150,000 names. There isn’t too much time left to index the 1940 Census as it is 93.16% indexed. We have 53 Parkcrest Members indexing. It is not too late to start! There will always be records to index but indexing the 1940 Census has been a special project. This project is going to be completed 2 months ahead of the schedule that the church projected when we all began indexing.
Thanks to all who have spent many hours indexing records.  What a great accomplishment. 

Over 10 Million Names in 24 hours!

 

Here is the report on our 5 million records challenge for July 2^nd.  Thanks to all of those who participated.  Our Parkcrest Ward Indexers have a total of 13,973 names for July so far!

“Amazing! We passed the 5 million records goal in less than 16 hours and just kept going! Thank you to the 46,091 indexers and arbitrators who participated in this historic event.”

Final Record Count:

 7,258,151 Indexed

 3,082,728 Arbitrated

 10,340,879 Total

The Indexing Report is in for June.  Our Ward indexed 107, 231 records.  My math was off last week so our total is down this week.  Sorry!
The 1940 Census is 75.5% completed.
The Church is asking all of us to do some extra indexing on July 2nd.  They are encouraging us to index 5 million records in 24 hours.  Our time starts here in Arizona at 5 pm on Sunday, July 1st.
Everyone is doing a great job!  Thanks for your efforts!

WOW! Our ward is doing great indexing the 1940 Census. For June we have indexed 27,945 records. That brings our total records indexed by our ward to 96,358. What a great accomplishment. Our goal is 150,000 names. The total indexing project is 70.47% complete. 
The church is asking us as a whole indexing group to index 5 million records on July 2nd.  The counting starts at 5 pm (GMT) on Sunday July 1st here in Arizona.
Thanks for your great work!

THANKS to everyone who is indexing!  You are doing a great job!  We have indexed 19,401 records so far for June.  Our total number of 1940 Census records indexed is 99,295.  What a great effort from our Ward!  Our goal for the project set by Bishop Holt is 150,000 records.  The indexing project is 65.52% complete so we only have a few weeks to go.  Please encourage your youth to index. 

Our Ward has indexed 79,894 names of the 1940 Census as of June 9th! The 1940 Census is 59.55% completed.  THANKS for all of your indexing efforts.  Our ward goal is to index 150000 names.  We appreciate all of you who take the time to index.  Thanks to the youth of the ward for their contribution.

How to check your profile to see if your Indexing is being recorded for the Parkcrest Ward

Here is how to check your profile to see that you have indicated your Ward and Stake in your profile so your indexing totals shows up on the Parkcrest Ward totals.

Click on your Family Search Indexing icon on your desktop

Click on tools at the left hand top of the page
Choose options from the drop down box

Click on the personal info tab

Click on change my information
Be sure you have indicated the Parkcrest Ward and Citrus Heights Stake

You may be asked to sign in again - sign in

Click on edit....Update your information

Dear Parkcrest Ward Members,

Our ward members have been busy Indexing the 1940 Census. So far this month we have indexed 17,221 records. Our total for April was 23,888. We have 40 ward members that are participating in Indexing the 1940 Census. Bishop Holt would love to have all of the ward members indexing at least 2 batches per week. A batch is 40 names. It is exciting to see the names of families listed on the 1940 Census. Many of them are waiting for living family members to locate their information and complete their temple work for them. We can help in this great family history project.

The Indexing of the 1940 Census is 35.2% complete. You can check out the progress of the Church’s indexing effort on this website. https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/ There are 6 states that have their indexing complete and you can now search them for your family members.

Please check the Indexing report list by the bishops office to be sure your indexing efforts are being recorded for our ward. Our Parkcrest Ward indexing blog has 2 videos to help you get started indexing as well as reports on our ward progress on our indexing efforts. http://parkcrestwardindexing.blogspot.com/

Please join us in our efforts to complete indexing of the 1940 Census.

Thank you for your indexing efforts! We really appreciate all you have done.

Pat and Judy Naughton

Thanks for your indexing efforts! Our ward indexed 23,888+ records for the month of April. And 7,242+ for the first 5 days of May.

The Tribe of Reuben indexed 3879 names in Arpil and 2160 so far for May!

The Tribe of Ephriam/Manasah (Bro. Lambert) April - 9600 May - 2200

The reason for the + sign is that we have found a few indexers who are not showing up on our wards indexing report. Please check your name on the report by the Bishop’s office. If you are not on our ward report, you are probably not signed up as an indexer for the Parkcrest Ward.

Here is how to change your indexing profile so you will be on the report.

Click on your Family Search Indexing icon

Click on tools at the left hand top of the page

Choose options from the drop down box

Click on the personal info tab

Click on change my information

You may be asked to sign in again - sign in

Click on edit....Update your information

Thanks for indexing.....

Pat and Judy Naughton

Indexing totals so far for April - 20565 names! 
We have 43 indexers from our ward indexing names.  Bishop Holt is asking all of us to index at least 2 batches a week.  The 1940 Census is about 23% completed.  Check out the site that keeps trace of the indexing status of the individual states.
wwwfamilysearch.org/1940census
THANKS for your indexing efforts!

Thanks to all who have signed up and are indexing!  We appreciate your efforts!
Our ward has indexed 12,184 names as of April 21st.  We receive a weekly report from the Stake Indexing Leaders.

You can check to see how the indexing of the USA is progressing.  Arizona is at 95% completion.
https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/

Helpful Videos for Indexing

A video was made that has a great beginners guide to indexing, if you have a few minutes to watch them, they will give you a good boost to help you start your indexing.  Just follow the links to the videos on Youtube!

Introduction to Indexing:  http://youtu.be/G09Ne5jvzQ4

Indexing:  http://youtu.be/8g2h43rKmoM

Good luck, and thank you for the help!

Helpful Videos for Indexing

Here are two videos uploaded to Youtube that should be helpful if you are brand new to indexing.  The first is just an introduction as to what indexing actually is, while the second link is an actual tutorial for the Family Search Indexing program that you will install and use on your computer.  Enjoy, and get indexing!

Introduction Video:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zF3950GumT0

Tutorial:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zF3950GumT0

Indexing the 1940 Census

Parkcrest Ward Members,
We appreciate your service Indexing the 1940 Census.