Category Archives: Census Research
Free Online Access to the 1930 US Census for Hawaii
This is a digitization of the 1930 US Federal Census for the state of Hawaii. It is available at archive.org for free. The digitizations was done by reel number. They do not have soundex or any other type of index for this census enumeration. If you know what island your ancestor lived on, you should …
Tuesday’s Tip: Free Access to US Census Records Online
While roaming around archive.com a few days ago, I made a discovery. They have the 1900-1930 Federal Census microfilm digitized. These are the actual census sheets and some soundex (depending on the year) available for free. It’s not ideal to work through the census sheet by sheet especially if you aren’t sure of the locality …
Finding Enumeration Districts in the 1940 Census
Some time back, I posted to Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun about what I expected to find in the 1940 Census. Joel Weintraub from the website SteveMorse.org posted a comment about the different utilities they’ve created to assist people with searching the 1940 census. I decided to check it out to see if I …