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…
Category: Census Research
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…
Making A Research Chart For 1940 Census Research
The minute the 1940 US Census was online I was there! I knew where I wanted to start (E. 25th Street, Oakland, CA), so I didn’t really have to do much preparation. All I needed was the enumeration district. Now that I’ve exhausted the East Twenty Fifth Street Gang, delved a little in Kilauea, Kauai,…
Newsreel Promoting the 1940 Census
I came across this today and thought that I would share. It’s a newsreel produced by the US Government promoting the upcoming enumeration of the 1940 US Federal Census. The newsreel explains the history of the census and why it is important. It then plays on the patriotic duty of all Americans to do what…
Is This My Martin Kelly in the Tax List
In my last post, I wrote about the entries I found in the San Mateo County Index to Deeds that referred to my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather, Martin Kelly. My next step is to determine what the property was that Martin Kelly owned in San Mateo County since his address from 1860 to 1899 when…