The 1940 U.S. federal census will be released via free ditial images Monday, April 2, by the National Archives and Records Aministration. This census includes the names people who made up the "Greatest Generation".
The Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will welcome guest speakers Dorothy Titera and Rae Ann Houshton of Family Search on April 9 at the North Ridgeville branch library to discuss and show how easy it is to participate via home computers in the indexing project of the 1940 U.S. Census.
The women also will demonstrate indexing proujects of thousands of other genealogy based records stored on microfilm in Salt Lake City. As records are indexed they are made available as free digitized images at FamilySearch.org. Members of the Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Soc iety will be among the volunteers participating in the indexing project.
The public is invited to attend this free program. . Membership in the genealogical society is not required to attend. Social time begins at 6:30 pm with the program and meeting beginning at 7 pm
The library is at 5700 Bainbridge Rd, N. Ridgeville
For more information, call Jean at 440-949-5167 or Pete at 440-967-8002.
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