1940 U.S. Census is now Accessible !

[baksha]

In order to do a search for your relative of the newly accessible 1940 U.S. Census through the National Archives, you'll need to know the address where your relative lived or the Enumeration District. Today, on npr radio, there was a discussion about the population demographics in 1940 SF. Every ten years from 1790 to the present, each state held census every ten years, so you may search those states.

The podcast is at :
www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204051000

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:


• Charles Fracchia, founder and president emeritus of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society and author of five books on San Francisco history, including "When the Water Came Up to Montgomery Street: San Francisco During the Gold Rush"
• Kevin Starr, professor of history at the University of Southern California and author of "Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge"
• Marcy Goldstein, director of the National Archives at San Francisco, based in San Bruno
• Michael Nolan, San Francisco resident and geologist who has used the newly released 1940 census data to research his street in the Bernal Heights neighborhood
• Nicka Smith, outreach and education chair of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California

[christine]

I have had some success finding people in 1940 using old phone books to confirm the address first.

[baksha]

Even though I knew my Dad's address, I couldn't find him there or where he worked. I found a list of relatives at the carpentry shop where they (and him too) worked, but he wasn't listed. I even looked at the list of patients listed for Chinese Hospital on the enumeration day. So, I'll wait for the Name Index that is being developed with Family Search.

[laohuaqiao]

Is there any way to download all the pages in an Enumeration District instead of 1 page at a time?

Not knowing the address, the process is going very slow to check through every page of every ED in a city. Each page image is more than 1 MB, with only 40 names to a page, it's is P A I N F U L L Y T I M E C O N S U M I N G!!!!

[baksha]

I've heard that in the next few months, genealogical organizations (Family Search / Ancestry) will have an alphabetical listing of the 1940 census. Patience...

[baksha]

Hi,

Search the Name Index for the 1940 U.S. census at : familysearch.org/search/collection/2000219

[baksha]

Hi Again,
A more direct link to do a Name Index Search for the 1940 U.S. Census is at: https:familysearch.org/1940census.
Jeanie

[Doug 周]

The LDS (Mormon) have always been generous and helpful to genealogists, regardless of any religious connection with their church and never with proselytization. Using the link, I found some potential leads to my two GG-fathers and my paternal G-father's census record. There is no subscription fee nor need to sign into the website.

The search algorithm is advanced. For example, I entered Last Name: Yeong; First Name: Choh Sam. It included listings for the given names of Sam and the surnames of Yang, Owyang in addition to the precise input spelling.

Here is the general search site to look at all the archival records regardless of the census date: Search Historical Records Search for a deceased ancestor in historical records to uncover vital information from their life ^click.

Thanks Jeanie!