54:. Volunteers identified over 100 individuals in the photograph, using various historical sources including draft records and alien registration records, as well as through interviews with surviving descendants of the community. Relationships between the individuals were also determined, using census records and interviews. Although the project retains the name "40 Families," volunteers have since determined that 50-60 families are represented in the photograph.
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Volunteers continue to work on the 40 Families
History Project, contributing valuable research on the families and lives of the people in the 1923 image. The 40 Families History Project is considered an exemplary use of online and volunteer resources for local history libraries.
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before the war. Some stories are recovered at reunions of internees, or through research in old newspapers. The land this community worked is no longer farmland, and none of the original structures survive. Some of the community's land was at the current site of the
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account, and a blog (now apparently dormant) to publicize its ongoing work. One volunteer created an online map, "Ranch
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Further photographs from this community's history have been donated to the project by descendants and local historians. The project maintains a website, a
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Details about the former residents' later lives are another interest of the project. Many of the individuals in the photograph were
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