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Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
Apr 2, 2012, 4:46:50 PM4/2/12
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This is what's on the opening page at Ancestry.com:
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Details in our 1940s collections can help you locate your family in
the 1940 census, too. Start searching 1940s-era records now. (The 1940
U.S. Census is not part of the 1940s-era group.)
-- end quote
Got that: The 1940 census is HERE -- but -- "(The 1940 U.S. Census is
not part of the 1940s-era group.)" WTF????
ne...@jecarter.us
Apr 2, 2012, 6:58:46 PM4/2/12
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as the other collections.
Had you paid any attention to the introductory posts along the way,
you would have used the various free tools to know how to find the
people of interest to you in the 1940 census.
Thanks to those tools, I have the Enumeration Districts where the
people of interest to me can be found.
Based on your posts in the last day or so, I'll not respond to you
again as you appear to be looking for instant gratification...
R S H
Apr 2, 2012, 11:17:34 PM4/2/12
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I absolutely agree that there is no index yet, and until there is one I for one will be unable to use the material. My parents arrived in
the u.S. in 1939, escaping from Germany via Holland and a ship to New York City, where they lived until 1944, when they moved, with me born
in 1942, to Utah where my father, drafted in 1943, was stationed in Brigham City to make artificial limbs at the Army Hospital that was
built there during the war. When they returned to New York in 1945 I know where we lived, but I have NO idea where they lived between 1939
and 1944 except to believe they lived in Manhattan somewhere north of 135th street and south of 184th street. That is a large area of upper
Manhattan, full of apartment buildings that were, in those days, relatively inexpensive, and full of German Jews who had managed to get out
of Germany in time. So I have no idea how to find the correct enumeration district in that large an area, AND have to assume there are
several thousand sheets of census data covering that part of Manhattan Island that would need to be looked at.
I would welcome any suggestions, of course, but assume I will have to wait until indexing is completed, if I live that long.
FWIW
RsH
the u.S. in 1939, escaping from Germany via Holland and a ship to New York City, where they lived until 1944, when they moved, with me born
in 1942, to Utah where my father, drafted in 1943, was stationed in Brigham City to make artificial limbs at the Army Hospital that was
built there during the war. When they returned to New York in 1945 I know where we lived, but I have NO idea where they lived between 1939
and 1944 except to believe they lived in Manhattan somewhere north of 135th street and south of 184th street. That is a large area of upper
Manhattan, full of apartment buildings that were, in those days, relatively inexpensive, and full of German Jews who had managed to get out
of Germany in time. So I have no idea how to find the correct enumeration district in that large an area, AND have to assume there are
several thousand sheets of census data covering that part of Manhattan Island that would need to be looked at.
I would welcome any suggestions, of course, but assume I will have to wait until indexing is completed, if I live that long.
FWIW
RsH
singhals
Apr 3, 2012, 9:11:56 AM4/3/12
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R S H wrote:
> I absolutely agree that there is no index yet, and until there is one I for one will be unable to use the material. My parents arrived in
> the u.S. in 1939, escaping from Germany via Holland and a ship to New York City, where they lived until 1944, when they moved, with me born
> in 1942, to Utah where my father, drafted in 1943, was stationed in Brigham City to make artificial limbs at the Army Hospital that was
> built there during the war. When they returned to New York in 1945 I know where we lived, but I have NO idea where they lived between 1939
> and 1944 except to believe they lived in Manhattan somewhere north of 135th street and south of 184th street. That is a large area of upper
> Manhattan, full of apartment buildings that were, in those days, relatively inexpensive, and full of German Jews who had managed to get out
> of Germany in time. So I have no idea how to find the correct enumeration district in that large an area, AND have to assume there are
> several thousand sheets of census data covering that part of Manhattan Island that would need to be looked at.
>
> I would welcome any suggestions, of course, but assume I will have to wait until indexing is completed, if I live that long.
GOTO www.usgenweb.org/ny and find the website for Manhattan.
> I absolutely agree that there is no index yet, and until there is one I for one will be unable to use the material. My parents arrived in
> the u.S. in 1939, escaping from Germany via Holland and a ship to New York City, where they lived until 1944, when they moved, with me born
> in 1942, to Utah where my father, drafted in 1943, was stationed in Brigham City to make artificial limbs at the Army Hospital that was
> built there during the war. When they returned to New York in 1945 I know where we lived, but I have NO idea where they lived between 1939
> and 1944 except to believe they lived in Manhattan somewhere north of 135th street and south of 184th street. That is a large area of upper
> Manhattan, full of apartment buildings that were, in those days, relatively inexpensive, and full of German Jews who had managed to get out
> of Germany in time. So I have no idea how to find the correct enumeration district in that large an area, AND have to assume there are
> several thousand sheets of census data covering that part of Manhattan Island that would need to be looked at.
>
> I would welcome any suggestions, of course, but assume I will have to wait until indexing is completed, if I live that long.
Send the county coordinator an email offering to help
INDEX Manhattan as soon as the project is open to him.
Or goto www.familysearch.org which already has a link where
you can sign up to index what's currently available.
You're absolutely right that there are thousands of sheets
to be indexed and read, but the more of us there are doing
the indexing the faster it will get done. You might even
get lucky and find your family in the part you index first.
Y'never know. But you really must cast some bread out on
the water if you want the ducks to line up for you (mixed
metaphor or something).
OTOH, you're lucky: eventually you'll see their names on the
1940. MY NYC German ancestors were there for the 1840
census, which didn't even list the names of the inhabitants,
only the Head of Household and sure 'nuff, he wasn't a HoH.
Cheryl
WVHampsh GenWeb CC
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