The indexing horserace has began even while horses continue to run the image race. Since my last update six days ago, FamilySearch’s image horse made progress, moving from 26% to 82% in less than a week.
Now on to the indexing horserace. My apples and oranges report here is certain to cause indigestion, but I’m rather constrained on what I can report.
FamilySearch has indexed 5% of the census. MyHeritage has published an index for 1% of the census, while Ancestry.com is at only one-third of one percent.
I should say “the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project” rather than FamilySearch, as volunteer indexers have been recruited by and are producing the indexes for Archives.com, FamilySearch, FindMyPast.com, FamilySearch, the National Archives, and (new member) ProQuest.
Now the caveats.
- Ancestry.com has not updated their indexing status since last Friday. Still, I think it is current since they indicated that D.C. would be indexed next and I found it is not yet there.
- FamilySearch publishes how far along each state indexing project is; Ancestry.com and MyHeritage do not so that information can’t be compared
- FamilySearch has 5% indexed, but has yet to publish it. Both of the other parties have published something. How quickly FamilySearch can turn around a finished project is yet to be seen.
Apples versus oranges.
The comparison between Ancestry and MyHeritage is interesting in that it is an apples to apples comparison. Since my last update MyHeritage finished the state of Rhode Island, which has 31 thousand pages. Ancestry has finished two states, but together they have but 11 thousand pages. That puts MyHeritage three times as far along as Ancestry.
Apples versus apples.
As with the images horserace, I’m just measuring how far along each horse is. There’ll be time enough for comparing index quality after the dust settles. May the best horse win.
State | Images | ||||
Alabama | 79,715 | 3-Apr | 5% | ||
Alaska | 3,988 | ||||
American Samoa | 594 | by 11-Apr | |||
Arizona | 15,327 | 2% | |||
Arkansas | 56,169 | by 11-Apr | 0% | ||
California | 198,780 | 6-Apr | 6% | ||
Colorado | 36,206 | 2-Apr | 93% | ||
Connecticut | 47,693 | ||||
Delaware | 7,908 | 2-Apr | 100% | 5-Apr | |
District of Columbia | 19,419 | by 11-Apr | |||
Florida | 57,708 | 2-Apr | 7% | ||
Georgia | 89,264 | by 11-Apr | 0% | ||
Guam | 1,031 | by 11-Apr | |||
Hawaii | 9,859 | ||||
Idaho | 17,544 | by 11-Apr | |||
Illinois | 222,776 | by 11-Apr | 2% | ||
Indiana | 98,028 | by 11-Apr | 6% | ||
Iowa | 76,192 | ||||
Kansas | 53,591 | 2-Apr | 89% | ||
Kentucky | 77,708 | ||||
Louisiana | 64,260 | 4-Apr | 3% | ||
Maine | 26,106 | ||||
Maryland | 52,575 | by 11-Apr | 0% | ||
Massachusetts | 121,354 | 0% | |||
Michigan | 149,720 | by 11-Apr | |||
Minnesota | 83,988 | 6-Apr | 5% | ||
Mississippi | 59,470 | 4-Apr | 3% | ||
Missouri | 108,108 | by 11-Apr | 0% | ||
Montana | 20,537 | 1% | |||
Nebraska | 39,048 | by 11-Apr | 1% | ||
Nevada | 3,526 | by 11-Apr | 5-Apr | ||
New Hampshire | 14,927 | 5-Apr | 25% | ||
New Jersey | 116,752 | ||||
New Mexico | 16,605 | ||||
New York | 370,269 | by 11-Apr | |||
North Carolina | 98,684 | by 11-Apr | |||
North Dakota | 22,654 | ||||
Ohio | 195,018 | by 11-Apr | 0% | ||
Oklahoma | 67,557 | 3-Apr | 5% | ||
Oregon | 34,745 | 2-Apr | 89% | ||
Panama Canal Zone | 1,136 | by 11-Apr | |||
Pennsylvania | 280,176 | 5-Apr | 2% | ||
Puerto Rico | 39,524 | by 11-Apr | |||
Rhode Island | 31,178 | by 11-Apr | by 11-Apr | ||
South Carolina | 53,091 | ||||
South Dakota | 22,655 | 0% | |||
Tennessee | 83,336 | by 11-Apr | |||
Texas | 178,754 | 5-Apr | 3% | ||
Utah | 16,666 | by 11-Apr | 0% | ||
Vermont | 10,512 | by 11-Apr | |||
Virgin Islands | 686 | by 11-Apr | |||
Virginia | 61,395 | 2-Apr | 39% | ||
Washington | 53,972 | by 11-Apr | |||
West Virginia | 52,199 | ||||
Wisconsin | 89,733 | by 11-Apr | |||
Wyoming | 8,304 | ||||
28 states | |||||
Total | 3,818,720 | 3,127,696 | 201,321 | 11,434 | 31,178 |
82% | 5% | 0% | 1% | ||
Data as of | 9:00am MDT, | 9:00am MDT, | 4:09am MDT, | 9:00am MDT, |
*In the table, “by 11-Apr” means the state was finished sometime since my last update. Since I didn’t check everyday, I don’t know the exact day.
Delaware is published and searchable by name at FamilySearch now. I'm not sure when that happened, but sometime Wednesday?
ReplyDeleteI found an ED that is upside down on all four services. I reported it to 1940census.archives.gov and they don't make it easy to find their "Report a Problem" link. I don't see a way to rotate images on that site. I ended up viewing the ED on Ancestry because rotating it was easy and I didn't have to rotate each page which I was afraid would happen (54 pages).
ReplyDeleteWonder if NARA will be inclined to fix it?