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From: "MaryAnn Bartlett" <>
Subject: [TXBELL-L] 1930 CENSUS FYI
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:05:47 -0500


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From: Bobbie Ross <>
To: '' <>
Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: [TXCORYEL-L] 1930 census

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|Would be fine with me, I got it from another list!
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|From: MaryAnn Bartlett
|Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 4:24 PM
|To:
|Subject: Re: [TXCORYEL-L] 1930 census
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|Bobbie, hope you are feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed by now! Would you
|mind if I forwarded this e-mail from you to the Bell County List....or, to
|Bill Bost, list owner and let him post it?
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|Thanks,
|Ann
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Bobbie Ross <>
|To: <>
|Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 3:40 PM
|Subject: [TXCORYEL-L] 1930 census
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||List members, I thought this was interesting. Bobbbie
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||>This was found on the Oklahoma genweb pages:
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||> >From the Copper State Journal
||>Arizona State Genealogical Society, Inc.
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||>According to sources familiar with the National Archives and Records
||>Administration, the 1930 US Census scheduled for release sometime in the
||>year 2002, after the 72 year restriction on public access, is only
||>partially indexed in Soundex format. The indexing of the census was a
||>Works Projects Administration (WPA) project to employ people during the
||>depression years of the 1930's. The census index project started with
||>the southern states and was only able to complete indexes for Alabama,
||>Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
||>Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia plus seven counties in Kentucky and
||>seven counties in West Virginia before it was stopped by labor demands
||>for World War II projects.
||>
||>So if you were looking for an easy search for missing persons in the
||>1930 census be prepared to do some page by page searching unless you are
||>lucky enough to have persons in one of the few indexed states.
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||>For more information about the 1930 and later census indexes, queries
||>can be sent to
||>
||>Clarie Prechtel-Kluskens
||>Archivist/Genealogy Specialist
||>Archives I User Services Branch (NWDTA)
||>National Archives Washington, DC 20408
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