1940 NY Census Index on FamilySearch  FamilySearch has released
their index of the 1940 census for NY State. An index has been
available on Ancestry.com for almost 2 months for NY State.
Other bloggers have been comparing indexes for other states and
have found many differences. I have been following Randy Seaver
on Genea-Musings and The Ancestry Insider who have really been
doing great jobs at comparing the indexes. For the most part,
FamilySearch has a more accurate index than Ancestry. That
doesn’t mean that either one is 100% correct. That is
impossible. First there could be errors by the person who gave
the data to the enumerator. Those could be things as simple as
giving a nickname instead of the person’s legal name. Then there
are spelling errors by the original enumerator. Then we get to
today and someone having to interpret the handwriting. Ancestry
relied on paid indexers in India. FamilySearch used volunteers
but had each record indexed twice. Then if there were any
differences another person would