I have been resisting the urge to sign up to do records indexing at Family Search for a long time now because every time I have the urge, I think I should be spending time on my own languishing family history research. But when the 1940 Census became available and the indexing project began to immediately digitize the census, I decided I should do both. And my wise friend told me, “Indexing just makes you hungry to do your own research”. So true.
I embarked on this new indexing adventure this week and did some Illinois census records because most of the personal research I do is in that state. I have several family lines that all converge on Illinois. It turns out that indexing is SUPER easy, as advertised, and very intuitive. Also fun. The records were released on April 2 and already there are states that are completely done. You can see a map of the progress at Family Search’s 1940 Census site, along with other information about getting started.
Happy indexing!
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