1940 Census Video by the National Archives - very fascinating!

[Cooley Hurd]

Last edited Sat Apr 7, 2012, 05:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Search for records here: http://1940census.archives.gov/

[demosincebirth]

1. Those old street maps are too fuzzy to be legible

[Cooley Hurd]

2. What maps?

[demosincebirth]

9. the old maps you look up to find a street or a town you want to explore in the 1940 census

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. I just indexed my first NY batch

so far I've worked on CO, OR and OK too. I've only done 25 or so, many indexers are already in the hundreds. Delaware is done and should be online next week. They estimated 6-8 months before we're done, but I bet we beat that

[liberal N proud]

4. marking to watch later

[SheilaT]

5. I'm flabbergasted!

I watched the video, got the Enumeration District numbers for the town I thought my mother's parents were living in at the time, and Bingo! On page 26 of the first ED I found my grandparents and my mother's sister who was still living at home. I have no idea where Mom was living at the time, nor do I know where my Dad was then living -- they weren't married yet, and wouldn't be for almost two years.

Maybe I can find my paternal grandmother -- paternal grandfather died in 1938.

Added on edit:

And I found my father! He was still living at home, as was his next older brother.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. K&R! You might want to try this forum here:

The DU Ancestry/Genealogy Group has lots of helpful links and some experienced genealogists.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1156

[SheilaT]

8. Thanks. I hadn't realized we had such a group.

I'll start reading it.

[SheilaT]

7. Now that I've located a couple of

records, I wonder if there's a good way to print up the full size page, so it's easier to read. Reduced to a standard sheet of paper makes it a little difficult to read everything. I wonder just how large those original sheets were.

[KatyaR]

14. I printed a few pages on 11x17 paper.

You can ready the handwriting pretty well, but the printed text is totally unreadable. I was hoping to find somewhere online that had all the headings, etc., written out.

[SheilaT]

15. Hmm. I may go ahead and buy some larger paper.

Maybe I could go to Staples or somewhere and they'd have even larger paper.

I am so totally psyched at finding those records, and finding them so quickly. But if you don't already know where someone lives, can the records be searched by name?

[seattleblah]

10. Sucks that the CONservatives...

are publishing our private information like this. Why haven't the courts put a stop to this nonsense?

[Cooley Hurd]

12. By statute, census records are made available after 70 years.

[Sky Masterson]

11. I've been scanning through the 1940 Census like crazy

Ancestry.com doesn't have it indexed yet, so I can't do a name search.
I've been fixated on a certain area of Pennsylvania for years due to genealogy research.
I was really hoping that my great Auntie was still alive. Couldn't find her. I'm hoping that when they index it fully that I'll find her. Side note. I found myself sort of sad seeing such a big change in citizenry from the 1930's to 1940's.

[WolverineDG]

13. Found my dad's family

because I knew the address (family homestead that wasn't sold until the 80's). Even then, it was frustrating because whoever worked that district waited until the very very last to do the odd-numbered side of the street!!

But it was interesting to see that all 4 kids were still at home & my oldest uncle was working as a lineman for CP&L & my aunt was in college.