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Find Your Family in the 1940 Census

Dhat was my family likė in 1940? How much education did they have? What was the value of their home? Were they tire salesmen, frame spinnérs, rivet heaters? Who is that with great-grandpa?! Find your family in the ARCHIVES.COM HAS PARTNERED WITH THE U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO BRING THE 1940 CENSUS ONLINE, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER BEGINNING APRIL 2ND! How to find famíly in the 1940 census: your GET STÁRTED NOW! WRITE DOWN THE PLACE WHERE YOUR A FAMILY MEMBER LIVED. Use previous censuses, city directories, or ask an older famíly member. (You'll need this later.) Grm yourself with this list of locatíons apríl 2nd, and visit www.1940census.archives.gov. APRIL ENTER YOUR FAMILY MEMBER'S LOCATION IN 1940 to find their "enumeration distríct," a specífic 6940 CENSUSa ige geographic area assígned to a single census-taker. USE THE CENSUS MAPS TO NARROW YOUR RESULTS. This is where havíng an exact address comes in handy! Pan and zoom over the map to locate the area you're looking for and note the enumeration dístrict number. 1t looks líke this UNIVERSITY or NEYADA Reno EXPERIMENTAL FARM WARD 612 RENO ENTER THE ENUMERATION DISTRICT NUMBER to view the census ímages for the place your famíly member líved. Browse the images one-by-one untí1 famíly members. (Thínk of it as a scavenger hunt!) Then bookmark, share or save the image to keep! you find YOUR EPLURIBUS JOIN A NATIONAL SERVICE PROJECT NOW UNDERWAY, CO-SPONSORED BY ARCHIVES.COM, TO CREATE A BY-NAME INDEX FOR THE 1940 CENSUS! GET INVOLVED TODAY AT THE1940CENSUS.COM. (UNUM Learn more about the 1940 census at Archives.com/1940census, and don't wait to discover your family history! Copyright ©2012 Archives.com | All rights reserved. Designed by InfoMonkeys.com

Find Your Family in the 1940 Census

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The 1940 Census is almost here! Are you ready? Archives.com has prepared this infographic to show some of the cool things you can discover about your family in the 1940 Census. It also shows the steps...

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