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From: Della Joanne Schults <>
Subject: [IAVANBUR] Fw: 1940 USA census now available on MyHeritage!
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:10:48 -0700 (PDT)


Got this from a friend. Maybe it will help everyone out with the 1940 USA Census.
Della









 
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From: MyHeritage.com
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:58 PM
Subject: 1940 USA census now available on MyHeritage!


Hi Vondell,

As you may have heard,
the official USA census for 1940 was released this week, after 72 years
of privacy protection. The census covered all 132 million people who lived in
the USA in April 1940, and it is the largest and most comprehensive set of
American historical records ever released. For each person the census includes
the name, age, address, birthplace, members of the household, and a wealth of
additional information on some people such as income, house value, number of
former marriages and residence in 1935. If your family has any people who lived
in 1940 in the USA, you will be able to find them here and learn more about
them, and perhaps discover family members you did not previously know
about.

We're proud to announce that MyHeritage is providing the entire
1940 USA census free of charge, right now, with all the original
images.

Search
the 1940 US census now

When the census was first released on
Monday, April 2 2012, "1940 census" became the most popular search term on
Google for 24 hours, and a frenzy of media publicity erupted, causing the
official government website of the census to collapse under the load. It is now
back up but slow to use. All the while, MyHeritage and a handful of other
companies rushed to provide the census images to the public as soon as
possible.

MyHeritage is the first company to post all images of the USA
census online (in less than 48 hours), and the first to provide an initial index
to search the census by name. We have all the images, but our name index is
still very small and covers only parts of Rhode Island, so the best approach is
to search by town or address and go through the census images, until you find
the people you're looking for. In the next few months we'll be growing the index
every day until it will cover the entire census and all people within it will be
searchable by name.

Search
the 1940 US census now

We'll soon enable our new automatic Record
Matching technology, and users with family trees on MyHeritage will enjoy
automatic notifications whenever we find their relatives in the 1940 US census
(as we continue growing its database) or in any of the many data collections
that we are now adding. You can search
our entire database right now.

More details on the powerful new
search engine that we've just added to MyHeritage that is making all this
possible, called SuperSearch, and our exciting expansion into historical records
that will provide great value to our users, will be provided soon.

Enjoy,
and have a relaxing holiday,
MyHeritage team




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