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1940 U.S. Census

NARA series a3378 roll 00069 frame 197

Finding R.F.D.3 Box 64B Kent, Washington in the 1940 Census

When my mother was 3 years old, she was living at the above address.  When you lived in a rural area, you did not have street names and house numbers.  All I had was this address I pulled from her baby book.   A rural mail route is not something you can enter directly into the…

April 4, 2012 in 1940 U.S. Census.

Creating Custom Census Events in Legacy Family Tree – Video Demonstration

I thought I would create a quick video to demonstrate the methods I used to convert my generic “census” event in Legacy Family Tree to one that is based on the Year/Location of the census as I described in this post. In the video, I walk through creating a custom event, creating a search list of…

March 8, 2012 in 1940 U.S. Census, Legacy, video.

1940 U.S. Census Research Plan Part 1 – Census Events

I have been sitting with my Legacy Family Tree file figuring out the best plan of attack for researching the 1940 U.S. Census. At first I was just going to run a query of all people living during that time that might be candidates for searching.  This is fine, but since the 1940 census will…

March 4, 2012 in 1940 U.S. Census, Legacy.

FamilySearch Indexing – Getting Ready for the 1940 U.S. Census Project

I have been a FamilySearch Indexer for a few years, off andon.  I must admit I don’t consistently takeadvantage of the opportunity to index records. Yes, I see this as more of help to me and my record education than whatit does for the genealogical community. Randy Seaver posted his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge…

February 26, 2012 in 1940 U.S. Census, FamilySearch Indexing.

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