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Leave the blood feuds at home
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Well,
according to NPR, tomorrow's 1940 census release is like the Super Bowl for genealogists. And, if you're going to have a super bowl, certainly there would be a tailgating party, complete with jello salads. Although, really this is way cooler than the Super Bowl, this happens once a decade!
I thought I'd host one, and we can chat about what and who we think we'll find tomorrow. I also thought I'd do a walkthrough of finding one of the enumeration districts for my people and maybe people can include a few links in the comments that have helped make sense of the whole event.
Archives have put out the image to help people find their relatives in the 1940 census. I thought it was cute. I thought I'd try to find my ancestors loosely following their steps.
I will look for Florence Fuhrwerk Stogdell Reiterman. She was my great grandmother. Her parents immigrated from Prussia in 1872.
1. find their address.
Here they are in the 1930 census. Note the township, county, etc.
2. Here I've typed the info into the ED finder at stevemorse.org/census/unified.html
I had to enter the state, county and town. I had to choose, "other" and then type in the town.
I didn't need to enter the ED from the 1930 census.
It quickly supplied the circled EDs for the 1940 census. So, it looks like I'll be looking in 54-30 and 54-32. When I clicked on more info it gave me something like this..
This result doesn't make sense with the circled info, because I did a screen shot of a result for another family member who lived close, but in a different ED. But you see what the result looks like.
3. It says I should use census maps to narrow my result, but I probably won't. My family will be in one of those areas, and they will be sparsely populated enough that it won't take long to page through them. Here is what the details about the ED looks like...
Note, Lake Fork township only has 238 people. That's only 6 pages to go through.
Remember those links circled in the image above, well tomorrow when the images go live at NARA, those links will take you to the FIRST page of that ED's census images. If you attempt to click one of those links now it takes you to a dummy page that notes the census is not live yet.
Oh, and Dear Myrtle is hosting webinars about the census every night next week.