{"id":1777,"date":"2012-08-10T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2012-08-10T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:43:34","slug":"familysearch-1940-census-index-grows-to-37-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2012\/08\/10\/familysearch-1940-census-index-grows-to-37-states\/","title":{"rendered":"FamilySearch 1940 Census Index Grows to 37 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch has added six more states\/territories to its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=https%3a%2f%2ffamilysearch.org%2f1940census%2f\">free 1940 census index<\/a>, for a total of 37 states indexed here. The additions are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arkansas<\/li>\n<li>Missouri<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Rhode Island<\/li>\n<li>Washington, DC<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volunteers for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.the1940census.org\">1940 Census Community Project<\/a>, a collaboration among FamilySearch,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2farchives.com\">Archives.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2ffindmypast.com\">findmypast.com<\/a>, have finished indexing the 1940 census records. Index data for the remaining 14 states are still being processed.<\/p>\n<p>Now on FamilySearch, you can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=https%3a%2f%2ffamilysearch.org%2f1940census%2f%3ficid%3dfsHomeSearch1940Pic\">search 1940 census records for all the indexed states at once here<\/a>\u00a0(I like this interface so much better than the previous map with the state progress pop-ups that were constantly covering up other states).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=https%3a%2f%2ffamilysearch.org%2f1940census%2f%3ficid%3dfsHomeSearch1940Pic\">Or you can narrow your search to a particular indexed state here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can search 1940 census records for all states\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familytreemagazine.com\/insider\/ct.ashx?id=2630f0aa-a821-4903-8100-27959d046779&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ancestry.com%2f1940-census\">on Ancestry.com<\/a>, whose index will be free through 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch has added six more states\/territories to its\u00a0free 1940 census index, for a total of 37 states indexed here. The additions are Arkansas Missouri Pennsylvania Rhode Island Washington, DC West Virginia Volunteers for the\u00a01940 Census Community Project, a collaboration among FamilySearch,\u00a0Archives.com\u00a0and\u00a0findmypast.com, have finished indexing the 1940 census records. Index data for the remaining 14 states\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2012\/08\/10\/familysearch-1940-census-index-grows-to-37-states\/\">Read More: FamilySearch 1940 Census Index Grows to 37 States &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}