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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Donna Potter Phillips, EWGS President

May 2012 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

EWGS is really a big partner in the 1940 census indexing project! We have 30 folks signed up to do this indexing and I think it's really a great thing for EWGS to be helping with this worthwhile project. Thank you to all of you for your time and efforts. (And do contact me if YOU wish to be a part of this effort.)

Big thanks, too, to Bette Topp and her crew for a most successful 1940 Census Birthday Party at our April 7 meeting. Another thanks goes to EWGS from the FamilySearch Symposium committee; help from us was greatly appreciated in their first annual Symposium.

Thinking of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census (since so many of us are working on indexing projects for that census, right??) I thought I'd share with you a bit that Thomas MacEntee posted to his blog: "These questions were proposed for the 1940 census but were rejected: Do you own a Bible? Are you over six feet tall? What is your hair color?

Do you own a burial plot? How many dogs do you own?" Questions I would have liked to see are: What church do you attend? Do you grow vegetables? Do you smoke? Have you read a book in the last month? Do you think the U.S. should enter the war? What questions would YOU have liked to ask?

It's not too early to mark your calendars for Saturday, September 15th, for our Fall Workshop. Yes, it is usually the first Saturday in October. But this year two fabulous speakers were on their way to Seattle and EWGS was able to snag them for a greatly-reduced travel cost. Our speakers will be Mark Lowe and Craig Roberts Scott with a theme and topic of War of 1812. Bill Hire is the chair for this event; stay tuned for details.

Until next month,

Donna

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