... finding a name in the 3.8 million digitized images won’t be as easy as a Google search: It could be at least six months after the release before a nationwide name index is created.
I have been trying to find a way to look up the 1930 and prior censae without going through ancestry.com. Does the census agency have a direct portal?
Until the name search is available, it will be very difficult for most people.
geneology ping....
Who’s doing the name indexing, and anyone know if there’s a way to volunteer help?
Genealogy ping
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“pointillistic”? Someone has a new dictionary!
This is somewhat puzzling. Went to live with a cousin when I was 3 and never knew my mom. Several years ago I was trying to track down our family history and one of the things I found was the census report they completed in January 1940. Listed my dad, older sister and my grandparents but not my mom. Since I was born later that year, never could quite figure it out. But apparently parts of the census report have always been available if you knew where to look.
bkmk for later