CA POPPY
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I thought it would be fun to check and see my parents' census form, they lived in Sacramento in 1940. Unfortunately, searching by name is not yet available. You can only check by address but then you must use a system I couldn't decipher. There were only a few streets listed and my folks' wasn't one of them. Maybe somebody here understands that website?
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Mac1
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Search using the state and county. It will give an option to view a map of the county. Decide what enumeration district you are interested in. Search using that ED number. At that point, I found, for me it was easier to download the entire file to my computer and browse thru it looking for the surname. Its slow. Other more knowledgeable folks, I'm sure have found a better method
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CarNDen
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All of the images are grouped by the ED.
This site has the easiest ED finder I've found:
http://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html
Good Luck.
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CarNDen wrote:All of the images are grouped by the ED.
This site has the easiest ED finder I've found:
http://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html
Good Luck.
Thank you for the link. I found my grandparents in Seffner, FL (yes, I know they spelled it wrong but so many do) Of course, that was easy. Now I have to try to find my grandmother in Clearwater and there are quite a few pages to go through. How fun though. And we won't even discuss going through Tampa for other relatives.
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tvman44
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What is the link to the census??
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1940 Census Archives
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Wanderlost
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I'm so glad we're rural folk. Made it so much easier to find my family.
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Out there now tracing my past. Neat to see my grandparents names, along with various aunts & uncles, my parents, and some others that I know...
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CA POPPY
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
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I tried the steve morse link but there are a jillion ED numbers for Sacramento and when I clicked on a couple I don't even get a readable page. Just a black desktop with some partial pages. Maybe someone can help me? I will PM the surname and address if anybody has time.
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CA POPPY
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DH helped me figure it out. Since my folks' home was/is a block outside city limits, we had to search the "district" which I remembered. So we found it! I was disappointed that it wasn't Mom's handwriting, they had the census workers write everything, but it was interesting to see the close-by neighbors' names. This was before I was born so some I recognized as longtime residents and some I'd never heard of. Most of those houses are still there, 72 years later.
Bud had to question his oldest brother to find out what the family's district in N. Florida was called back then, but he found that registry, too. Good thing he still has that brother as we would never have known how to search. Funny thing, a handful of surnames were VERY popular in that area at that time. 
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