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By: mikeeliasz

mikeeliasz — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:34:09 +0000

Hi Dr Weintraub!

Welcome to the blog. Readers, the good Dr is one of three experts from SteveMorse.org (in particular the Census pages).

I meant for my post to say: …

1) find an address (some way or another)
2) Use this address at SteveMorse.org using the Census tools to get the ED
3) If you do not have an address, then use the 1930 ED and SteveMorse.org tools to convert to 1940EDs

Do this until the indexes are complete and accurate. Thanks for your comments.

By: mikeeliasz

mikeeliasz — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:31:33 +0000

Mea Culpa !!!

This jester has to laugh at his foolishness. You are correct. WWII did start September 1939, but the US was on the sidelines until 12/7/1941 (a full 20 months after the census).

By: Dr Joel Weintraub

Dr Joel Weintraub — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:08:17 +0000

One more point. The US wasn’t at war in 1940. There was a mandatory draft put in place 6 months after the 1940 census was taken. So I don’t think the issue of large number of people in the military is a particular problem for this census.

Joel Weintraub

By: Dr Joel Weintraub

Dr Joel Weintraub — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:39:05 +0000

Hi,

First, no one can name index the census until it becomes public on April 2nd, 2012. Thus any name indexes, either done by Ancestry or the FamilySearch “consortium” won’t start until that date, and I expect it will take time, perhaps 6 months or more, to get a complete name index. States and areas will be “rolled out.”

Second, I suggest your readers use our tutorial/quiz at http://stevemorse.org/census/quiz.php to get an overview of all the search tools available to find people by location. Addresses are fine, but even a location can narrow the EDs that one might have to search through. The locational tools are not going to get you to the page where the address/location is on, but will get you to the right enumeration district.

Joel Weintraub
Dana Point, CA