Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested

April 5, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested

The Lake County Genealogical Society now is seeking volunteers to help index the census for Lake County when it is released in April. Once the indexing is complete, users will be able to locate a person of interest among the 132 million names in the census. Once the indexing work is completed, its contents will be available for free for anyone wishing to access it.

This very interesting news was found on northern Ohio’s News-Herald in their article, “Volunteers needed to index 1940 Census.” The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration chose April 2012 as the time for release because it is 72 years after the information was collected, and that was beyond the life expectancy in 1940.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.