Are you still exploring the 1950 US Census? I am and I am sure I’m not the only one, right? There are many family members I still want to look up in it! I purposely waited until the indexing and review was complete via the FamilySearch initiative and it’s also fun to see those hints […]
1950 US Census Indexing – We Ranked 3rd! Read More »
The US genealogy world has been waiting for this for 10 years! The release of a census is a big deal and we now get millions more data points to digest about our ancestors/relatives! A big part of the census experience is searching the index. The major index most will use is the one from
Here’s what I’ve learned from indexing my first 1000 names for the US 1950 Census! Read More »
Yesterday, I was delighted to present a session on Researching African American Family History & Genealogy on behalf of the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. This is our fourth year partnering with Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage to conduct part of their Black History Month programming and it went well! We had a
In the Census: I’m Ready for 1950 Read More »
Oh how I love genealogy! Tonight, while doing a little Twitter reading, I saw Thomas post that Ancestry has put the NY State Census indexes online for 1892, 1915, and 1925. Excitedly, I quickly hopped over to the Ancestry site to search 1925 for I expected to be able to find my great-grandparents – Lewis
My Great-Grandparents in the 1925 NY State Census Read More »
Last week, soon after the release of the index for Delaware on the Ancestry.com website, I received my first green shaky leaf hint from the 1940 census! The hint was for a person in my McNair family tree, Ms. Carrie Lucille McNair Griffin (1919-2004). Carrie was a granddaughter of our family patriarch, Rufus Tannahill McNair,
My First Ancestry 1940 Census Hint Read More »
Yesterday I posted about my experiences with the first day of the census and I mentioned that I had no plans to seek out my family members while the images are still unindexed. Yeah – that didn’t hold out very long. Last night I downloaded a few ED sets from the NARA website around the
My First 1940 Census Find Read More »
This has been a fun day! With the release of the 1940 census there has been a lot of excitement among many to see the records. Technical glitches abounded online as unexpected demand crashed the NARA website but there was still plenty to do. What did I do? I made a half-hearted attempt to locate
Until you mail it back. A census message from President Obama. Make sure you complete your census form! Look for it this month. You can explore the form here – it is only 10 questions so won’t take you too long. 🙂
We Can’t Move Forward Read More »