To Learn More About These Images and Search, Here Are a Few Sites

1940 Census L.A. Clugh June 20, 2012

The 1940 census images are now released! On April 2, 2012, NARA released the digital images of the 1940 Unites States Federal Census after a 72 year embargo. These census images will be uploaded and made available on Archives.com, FindMyPast.com, National Archives, ProQuest, and FamilySearch.org.

To learn more about these images and search, here are a few sites.

Click the 1940 box in middle right.

Click down on _Search the Census link- for all the questions on the 1940.

Click the 1940 button.

Click on the States that are Orange. They are searchable.

They also have lessons on how to find your Enumeration District.

You can also use this site to find your District.

Then to the ED Finder

Put in the address sometime close to the 1940 census time. Select the State, County, City. Then the House # and Street name. You need a cross street to narrow down the search. You can then click the map button [see map} where Google will bring up the neighborhood. Then you can see the first cross street. Select this in the next line.

This should narrow down you district and make it pretty easy to find.

There are also images on click the Learning Center button. Then see the heading for Next Steps to Getting Ready for the 1940 Census

& to see how things are progressing on Ancestry for the other States.

STICKY NOTES; has great stories and articles on Enumeration Districts.

Thanks, have fun searching.

L.A. Clugh ;Tippecanoe County Genealogy Society & Tippecanoe County Historical Asso.

Never before have we had this kind of information available when a census year came out.

Today we share instantly with cell phones, blogs, twitter and facebook.

Multiple webpages are available with the same topic of interest.

With the 1940 census, our nation was just coming out of the great

depression of the 30’s. We were not far from heading into the next World War. Soon neighborhood will begin to boom and our we will experience a tremendous growth.

But for now, we can try to find our families in the communities and see what we can find out about them in this 1940 US Census.

Today I will show you a few sites you can find free information on this census.

I have linked a few on the TIPCOA website.

Also at the top of the page see the C. for a short handout.

Here we go.

Show Thelma on Ancestry 1930

Family Search 1940

Census SD Steven Moore.