1940 Census Status Update for 16 April 2012

Since my update last Thursday, FamilySearch finished posting all the census images.

FamilySearch Indexing numbers indicate that they have increased the amount indexed from 5% to 11%. Compare the table below with the table in my last update to see the progress.

Progress on posting indexes is not as rosy. The posting of Delaware by FamilySearch is the only progress reported by anyone. That brings FamilySearch to one-fifth of a percent (0.21%) of publishing indexes for all the 1940 census.

Ancestry.com has not updated their indexed states list for the last 10 days. They remain at 0.30% done.

MyHeritage has also gone without updating their list, stalling at 0.82%. That is enough to keep them in first place.

It appears to me that MyHeritage.com and Ancestry.com posted indexes for one or two token states, but are now proceeding with the task of indexing all states. That may not be true of FamilySearch.

Over the weekend FamilySearch informed indexers that they could publish more indexes sooner were it not for the one week indexers are given to index a batch.

States that are nearly ready to publish can still be held up by a few remaining, checked-out batches. For this reason, as a state nears completion, we will be reducing the amount of time that a batch can be checked out. Rather than the standard seven days, batches for nearly complete states will be made available on a decreasing scale from five days to three days to just one day as we get closer to the end.

FamilySearch also announced that indexers have broken records almost every day. They indexed 20 million records and arbitrated 10 million in the first week and a half of the project.

With several states hovering at 99% (Colorado, Kansas, and Oregon), perhaps we’ll see FamilySearch take the lead in the indexing horserace.

Stay tuned…

State	Images	FamilySearch Indexing Status	FamilySearch Index Publication	Ancestry.com Index Publication	MyHeritage Index Publication
Alabama	79,715	8%
Alaska	3,988	24%
American Samoa	594
Arizona	15,327	34%
Arkansas	56,169	2%
California	198,780	11%
Colorado	36,206	99%
Connecticut	47,693	1%
Delaware	7,908	100%	11-Apr	5-Apr
District of Columbia	19,419	2%
Florida	57,708	11%
Georgia	89,264	1%
Guam	1,031
Hawaii	9,859	6%
Idaho	17,544	65%
Illinois	222,776	4%
Indiana	98,028	61%
Iowa	76,192	1%
Kansas	53,591	99%
Kentucky	77,708	0%
Louisiana	64,260	5%
Maine	26,106	2%
Maryland	52,575	2%
Massachusetts	121,354	2%
Michigan	149,720	1%
Minnesota	83,988	9%
Mississippi	59,470	4%
Missouri	108,108	0%
Montana	20,537	17%
Nebraska	39,048	5%
Nevada	3,526	45%		5-Apr
New Hampshire	14,927	81%
New Jersey	116,752	0%
New Mexico	16,605	2%
New York	370,269	1%
North Carolina	98,684	0%
North Dakota	22,654	2%
Ohio	195,018	2%
Oklahoma	67,557	9%
Oregon	34,745	99%
Panama Canal Zone	1,136
Pennsylvania	280,176	4%
Puerto Rico	39,524
Rhode Island	31,178	4%			by 11-Apr
South Carolina	53,091	0%
South Dakota	22,655	8%
Tennessee	83,336	0%
Texas	178,754	7%
Utah	16,666	80%
Vermont	10,512	7%
Virgin Islands	686
Virginia	61,395	87%
Washington	53,972	4%
West Virginia	52,199	1%
Wisconsin	89,733	1%
Wyoming	8,304	37%
		45
Total	3,818,720	409,461	7,908	11,434	31,178
		11%	0.21%	0.30%	0.82%
Data as of		11:30am MDT, 16 Apr.	11:30am MDT, 16 Apr.	11:30am MDT, 16 Apr.	11:30am MDT, 16 Apr.