This was a huge thing for me, because whenever I tried the tricks offered using the street name and enumeration district from the 1930 census, I came up empty. In my searches, I could not for the life of me, find East Meadow Street in the 1940 census. Stamford, CT was a big city back then, being a huge boom town since the late 1800's, and the massive immigration of the Irish. There was no way I was going to through, page by page by page, to find them. So I waited. Sometimes patiently lol.
This one contains my grandfather, Gordon E. Nichols and his family. Including my great grandfather Arthur E. Nichols, who passed away later in 1940. I am glad he was still alive for the census, although I suspect he was probably already sick.
(Source: Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.)
I did make a correction to the transcribing, as they were listed as "Nicholas". I can't blame the wonderful indexer, as the handwriting on this one is not great (big surprise there, wonder if they ever thought to make the census takers do a handwriting course).
And this is my grandfather Mayo H. Blanchard, and his family. He is always pretty easy to find, due to his unusual name. I also made a small correction to the transcribing on this one, as my uncle's name is Alfred, not "Affred". That was the census taker's fault.
(Source: Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.)
My father and mother will not show up in the 1940 census, as they were born 1942 and 1943, respectively. But many of my aunts and uncles are there. It is kind of funny to see them as little children. I want to do nothing more than spend the day working to find others, but I must get my homeschool planning done for my boys first, since we begin the new year on Monday.
I will be definitely getting my files set up so that I can get back to searching, as soon as I possibly can.
And I just want to take a minute to thank all those wonderful volunteers who have worked so hard to make the 1940 census available to all of us. It is so appreciated!
Awesome my friend, I have SO been wanting to start the family search but never have the $ to go into all the neat sites they have. I so appreciate anything! Love ya dear, Vic
ReplyDeleteHi Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteWhen you couldn't find East Meadow on our drop down list of streets on the stevemorse.org One-Step site, you should have emailed Steve or myself. We are always interested in these situations, and whenever possible we would have tracked down the source of the omission and fixed it. It turns out that your East Meadow and Meadow, from what you found, was in ED 1-179. I looked at the block by block definition of this ED that the census bureau produced, and the Meadows don't appear within the description, therefore we didn't know there was an omission as we transcribed the film definitions. We probably could have found the street on an ED map of the area. In any case, you will now find East Meadow and Meadow for Stamford on the One Step site, as I've just added it to our street list for the city so the next person who might do a locational search won't have the problem you had.
Joel Weintraub
Dana Point, CA