[or-roots] Progress report on 1940 census

Fri Apr 6 15:05:14 PDT 2012

Well, I tried that and it said the the enumeration district was invalid so
maybe the 1940 is different than the 1930.  This is only frustrating
because I know the exact address and you can't use that.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net> wrote:

> So find them in the 1930 census and find the enumeration district.
>
> Then go to 1940Census.archives.gov <http://1940census.archives.gov/>
> Scroll down a little ways and click on "Get Started".  Then scroll down to
> "Start Your Search" and click on that.  You will come up with a "Search
> box" with two options, select "Search by Enumeration Districts".  You can
> enter the State and the 1930 Enumeration District and then view what the
> 1940 ED is.  Then go from there in your search.
>
> Sue
>
>
> On 4/6/2012 1:41 PM, Dale Harguess wrote:
>
> Yes, they were in the same place.
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net> wrote:
>
>> If you know they are in the same place as 1930, there is a conversion
>> from the ED-1930 and the ED-1940.
>>
>> Sue
>>
>>
>> On 4/6/2012 1:12 PM, Dale Harguess wrote:
>>
>> I can't for the life of me figure out how to access this.  I know the
>> exact address but it doesn't seem to have a place to put that in.  I feel
>> so lame about this.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Roy Blaine <royblaine at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Slightly unrelated, I went on the Napa County, California images on
>>> Ancestry, and the first sheet I looked at had the name of a friend of my
>>> mother's who grew up with her in Oregon. They went to nursing school
>>> together, and this lady was still living in the area when I attended grade
>>> school there.  Kind of fun.
>>>
>>> I went on Family Search and indexed a sheet the first night, just to say
>>> I got started.  It was for Astoria/Clatsop.
>>>
>>> Roy N. Blaine
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> From: DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com
>>> To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>>> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:24:27 -0700
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Progress report on 1940 census
>>>
>>>  I was hopeful about the Douglas County families – thought I’d at least
>>> be familiar with a certain percentage as I sometimes feel like much of Oak
>>> Creek/Dixonville is related to me. <smile>  Just need more hours in my days.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Denise
>>>
>>> A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The web page I made for my parents is at:
>>> http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My genealogy related pages are at:
>>> http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/
>>> and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sproed/
>>>
>>> The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:
>>> or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On Behalf Of *Leslie
>>> Chapman
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:55 PM
>>> *To:* or-roots mail list
>>> *Subject:* [or-roots] Progress report on 1940 census
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sue; I got lucky on two of them, I knew some of the families in both the
>>> Dixonville one and more particularly one of the Roseburg page entries is I
>>> believe in my nieces family and some of Ron Casebeer's kin were on that
>>> page too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>> --- On *Thu, 4/5/12, Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Progress report on 1940 census
>>> To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
>>> Date: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5:40 PM
>>>
>>> I've finished 15 sheets and find it very interesting.  Some frustrations
>>> with the handwriting.  It would be nice to index for an ED that you were
>>> familiar with.
>>>
>>> Sue
>>>
>>>
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