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Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois

          A special program called “The 1940 Census and Online Finding Aids” will be presented by Dr. Joel Weintraub, an emeritus biology professor at California State University, Fullerton, on Sunday, April 29, 2012, at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois meeting in Skokie.

          In the first part of his program, Weintraub will speak on what’s in the 1940 Census and the controversies concerning it. The second part will focus on how to search it without having a name index.

            This two-lecture program will be free to JGSI members. Non-members will be charged $10, which can be applied to JGSI membership until June 1, 2012.

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            Check-in for this special program will begin at 1 p.m., April 29, at Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster St., Skokie.

           Joel Weintraub has worked with fellow genealogist Stephen Morse to produce several online census searching utilities for both the federal and the New York State censuses on the Morse One-Step website. Weintraub has been working on finder aids for the 1940 census since 2005, and has given talks on that census starting in 2006.

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            The 1940 census will become available on several websites on April 2, 2012, but it won’t be indexed until several months later. Until then, the finder aids to be discussed by Weintraub will be needed to find ancestors’ information.

           He became interested in genealogy about 12 years ago and volunteered for nine years at the National Archives and Records Administration in southern California. Weintraub started transcribing streets within census districts in 2001 to help researchers search the 1930 U.S. census (released in 2002).

For more information about this program, visit http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsi or phone (312) 666-0100.

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