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…
Category: Census Research
SNGF: The 1940 Census
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at Genea-Musings is all about the 1940 census, what we plan to find, and our expectations. As it will not have an index at first, I suspect that I will be slogged down in four places: Kilauea (Kauai Co., HI), Oakland (Alameda Co., CA), Spreckels (Monterey Co., CA),…
My Biggest Genealogy Discovery in 2010
I’m borrowing this for Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun since I wrote it only two days ago. This is by far my best research adventure of the year. I located obituaries that were out of my reach and I uncovered a new line of my Kelly family tree. None of this would have been possible…
Befuddled by the 1880 Census
I have been working on the Kelly family this week. After finding Michael Kelly living with an Uncle, John Kelly, I renewed my efforts to fill in the blanks on his Father, Martin Kelly. I was pouring over data last night when I realized that I never found Martin’s sons, John Joseph Kelly and Matthew…
Tombstones Have Errors, Too: Part Three
In the first post in this series, I told of Michael Kelly who committed suicide in 1881 and how that date differed from the tombstone. In the second post in this series, I used city directories to see if I could establish connections between Michael, John, and Martin Kelly. In this post, I’m going back…