JGSCV presents "Here Comes The 1940 Census", at our monthly meeting on
March 4, 2012, 1:30-3:30 PM at Temple Adat Elohim, 2420 E. Hillcrest
Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362.

The 1940 U. S. census will become available to the public on April 2,
2012, 72 years after it was taken. This census introduced sampling,
organized publicity, and an emphasis on economic questions. Some
standard questions were dropped, while new ones were added. The census
has been digitized by the National Archives and will be available on-
line. However, there will not be a name index on opening day,
therefore, initially, locational techniques for finding people will be
necessary. Joel Weintraub will discuss the 1940 enumeration and its
questions and the on-line 1940 locational tools that are available at
the National Archives and the Steve Morse "One Step" websites.

Joel volunteered for nine years at the National Archives and is an
emeritus Biology Professor. He has produced census tools since 2001,
and in 2002 teamed up with Stephen Morse. Joel has been working on
finder aids for the 1940 census since 2005, and has given talks on
that census starting in 2006. These utilities, for searching federal
and NY State censuses by location, are freely available at
stevemorse.org in the census section.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura
County is dedicated to sharing genealogical information, techniques,
and research tools with anyone interested in Jewish genealogy and
family history. There is no charge to attend the meeting. Anyone may
join JGSCV.

For more information contact: informat...@jgscv.org or Jan Meisels
Allen@ 818-889-6616.