Category Archives: 1940 US Census
SNGF: Fearless Female Prompt of the Day
Randy Seaver has asked us to take a prompt from the Fear Females list created by Lisa Alzo for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. I’ve chosen today’s prompt which is to take a family document and write a narrative about it. My Great Aunt Margaret Jackson married Alfred Fafri sometime in the early 1940s…somewhere. No one …
1940 Census for Hawaii Indexed and Online
Good news! FamilySearch.org has the 1940 Census index for Hawaii online. Now you don’t have to muddle through page by page. A couple of things you should know before jumping in: Names, especially in Hawaii, can be mangled. I was searching for Seraphin Braga on Oahu. His first name is indexed as Serphan. I checked …
1940 Census Sheets Are Different For Hawaii
I have had a chance to peek at the census sheets for California and Hawaii. As with previous censuses, a different sheet was used for Hawaii than the rest of the United States. Here are some of the differences: The first columns pertaining to residency are the same, but in a different order. Race or …