US Census Records For 1940 Are A Smash Online Hit
Post on 03,April 2012   4:00 PM
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New York,Apr,3:US people responded Minutes after release of , the 1940 census data first time since it was recorded the data was unveiled on a dedicated portal on the National Archives and Record Administration website was all but impenetrable.

Officials apologized and promised the website would be accessible as soon as possible as they are working to solve the technical glitch.

Record Administration website gets 22.5 million hits in the 180 minutes, clogging the system. It was the first time when detailed census information has released on the Internet - and critics cite privacy concerns.

"In the first three hours, we had 22.5 million hits," said Susan Cooper, spokeswoman for the National Archives. "We're a victim of our own success."

Cooper further said that the archives had anticipated significant interest in the release, which included nearly 4 million images of painstakingly handwritten census pages.

Some people were able to access the site, but others endured long waits or were not able to get on at all, she said.

"It's frustrating, and we share that frustration with the public," Cooper said. "We're working as fast as we can to fix the problem."

Individual statistics from a decennial census released in public domain in every decade, as soon as the governments legally mandated 72-year waiting period expires. However the recent data release of the 1940 documents had been awaited more eagerly than usual, partly because they will be available online.

Genealogists, historians and family history buffs also say this special data, the 16th conducted, sheds light on an especially interesting period of United States history.

Michael Snow, a Census Bureau historian, expressed that the data helps to fill in a portrait of the nation as it dug its way out of the Great Depression of 1930 and stood at the brink of World War II. The released statistics offers several details on the period's great westward migration, prompted by Depression-era job arrest and the Dust Bowl situation that hit the Great Plains about the same time.

 


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