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Advice please on the best way to access these records and the best sites to use ?
Any tips greatly appreciated .
kind regards ,
B.
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I tried a google search, and unless I am mistaken (quite possible) Familysearch seem to be indexing this. Check out this site for info about that, & where else available:
https://familysearch.org/1940census/
Jan
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Many thanks ,Jan . Will do.
Bernie.
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Bernie - you can also search and view images for free on Ancestry. With their recent update, they now have better (but non-overlapping) coverage than FS.
They miss out on 13 states: CT, FL*, IL, IA, LA*, MD, MS*, NJ, NC, SC, TX, WV, WY*. They also only have 3 territories (AK, DC, HI) and the others (AS, GU, CZ, PR, VI) are not there yet. All missing places are "Coming soon".
FS has covered 5 of those missing states (the starred ones) and appear to have no plans for those 5 missing territories.
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Bernie - just noticed the "Reaseaching" tag to your post. Maybe you already know this but...
For Canada, drill down from the LAC portal:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html
to the census links page:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-911.009-e.html
For US censuses, there's free 1880 transcriptions at Ancestry.
At FS, there's free transcriptions of all US censuses, but only some have free images:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_STATES
So 1880/1920/1930 only have free images if you go to an LDS FHC.
Here's how to stay home and get them - lets take an FS look up of Tricky Dicky as an example:
name: Richard Nixon
event: Census
event date: 1930
***event place: Whittier, Los Angeles, California
gender: Male
age: 17
marital status: Single
race: White
birthplace: California
estimated birth year: 1913
immigration year:
relationship to head of household: Son
father's birthplace: Ohio
mother's birthplace: Indiana
enumeration district number: 1552
family number: 82
sheet number and letter: 3B
line number: 87
***nara publication:
***film number: 2339910
digital folder number: 4531822
***image number: 00948
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Francis A Nixon M 50 Ohio
wife Hannah M Nixon F 44 Indiana
son Harold S Nixon M 20 California
son Richard Nixon M 17 California
son F Donald Nixon M 14 California
Normally, it gives the NARA reel # - why it's missing here's a mystery.
So I go to the FS home page, and click on the catalog link.
I want to do a search for the film # 2339910 - I get:
Note Location Film
California Population schedules: Los Angeles County (EDs 19-1499 to 19-1509, 19-1516 to 19-1529, 19-1539 to 19-1560) [NARA, T626 roll 175] FHL US/CAN Census Area 2339910
Next, go to http://archive.org/details/1930_census (putting in whatever year's appropriate).
Then click on California and the appropriate reel #, then read online.
You get http://archive.org/stream/californiacensus00reel175#page/n0/mode/2up
Now edit this URL, changing the page # and the up-ness to read
http://archive.org/stream/californiacensus00reel175#page/n948/mode/1up
Incidentally, on this site, don't ever touch the slide-bar on the right - edit to URL or use the grabby-cursor-tool-thingy or the page clicker controls to move around.
Also, magnify 4 clicks before you save the image - that gives a decent resolution in the downloaded file here.
He's not on this page - it's usually a couple too big, so look up a name on this page on FS - preferably one that won't get mistranscribed that isn't John Smith.
Here's the key bits of the look up
name: Takeo Kanegaye
nara publication: T626, roll 175
film number: 2339910
digital folder number: 4531822
image number: 00952
So I'm 4 pages too high (also the NARA reel #'s reappeared) - click back 4 pages to
http://archive.org/stream/californiacensus00reel175#page/n944/mode/1up
and there he is.
1930's the only time I expect to be given the NARA reel # directly:
1920
name: Richard M Nixon
residence: Placentia Township Yorba Linda Precinct Yorba Linda Village, Orange, California
estimated birth year: 1914
age: 6
birthplace: California
relationship to head of household: Son
gender: Male
race: White
marital status: Single
father's birthplace:
mother's birthplace:
film number: 1820123
digital folder number: 4293829
image number: 01009
sheet number: 4
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Francis A Nixon M 41y Ohio
wife Hannah M Nixon F 34y Indiana
son Harold S Nixon M 11y California
son Richard M Nixon M 6y California
son Francis D Nixon M 5y California
son Arthur B Nixon M 1y6m California
Here (& 1880) the NARA reel # and the FHL film # coincide in the last 3 digits.
I went to look this one up too - in 1920, the CA census ran to 68 reels, but there's only 67 present at:
http://archive.org/details/1920_census and the missiing reel is # 123. This is rare, but I have had it happen a couple of times before.
The reel obviously exists (how else can FS film it), but archive.org have forgotten to digitize it.
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Oh my goodness mgnv, you are such an expert. !
Thank you so very much for taking the time and trouble to help. I shall need time to digest all the info . and I hope I shall be able to understand and come up with some results .
Kind regards ,
B .
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