Page by page like we used to before we all got spoiled with indexing :-) Years ago, we went through 7 rolls of the Arkansas 1850 census and in the LAST county (of course) we found my husband's great grandfather. Now it would take 2 minutes on ancestry.com!! Michele In a message dated 3/30/2012 12:22:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello List, Does anyone know how people will search the new census before it is indexed? Thank You, C Brisbon Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Those were the days, my friend. I think it was a little more exciting then.  :) Naomi ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] 1940 census Page by page like we used to before we all got spoiled with indexing  :-) Years ago, we went through 7 rolls of the Arkansas 1850 census and in the  LAST county (of course) we found my husband's great grandfather.  Now it  would take 2 minutes on ancestry.com!! Michele In a message dated 3/30/2012 12:22:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: Hello List, Does anyone know how people will search the new  census before it is indexed? Thank You, C Brisbon Please send the  one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to  [email protected]  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please  send an email to [email protected] with the word  'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It is of course easier in small rural communities, or if the family you're looking for were farmers. If your family was in the city, the 1930 census enumeration district is a good place to start looking, according to everything we've seen coming from the national archives *unless* they moved in that ten year time span. One of the questions asked in the 1940 census is where you lived in 1935, because with the dust bowl and the depression, a lot of people moved. I hope the national archives computers don't crash Monday morning. I know of a lot of people who don't work day shift that are going to go on line at 9:AM EDT to start the hunt. I wonder which states the indexing people will post first. Our local genealogy society has volunteered to do at least our county here in Nebraska (Douglas, which was the major population center even in 1940, and hasn't changed since...perhaps even some of the other counties near by. But I know I am also itching to get my hands on East Tennessee & Lancaster co, PA, and some places in MN & SD. Thank Goodness conference will serve as a distraction this weekend or I'd be climbing walls in anticipation.) Karen On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Page by page like we used to before we all got spoiled with indexing :-) > > Years ago, we went through 7 rolls of the Arkansas 1850 census and in the > LAST county (of course) we found my husband's great grandfather. Now it > would take 2 minutes on ancestry.com!! > > Michele > > > In a message dated 3/30/2012 12:22:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > Hello List, > Does anyone know how people will search the new census before it is > indexed? > Thank You, > C Brisbon > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Finding ancestors is like eating potato chips--you can't stop with just one!

I remember not that many years ago when Ancestry's censuses weren't all indexed yet. I knew the county my great grandfather was born in, in Missouri, so I started a township-by township read-through of the 1860 census for this particular county to find his family. I was luckier than you, Michele. I found them in the 3rd township I looked at. Alice Allen Oakhurst Ward Family History Consultant Vancouver Washington Stake -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] 1940 census Page by page like we used to before we all got spoiled with indexing :-) Years ago, we went through 7 rolls of the Arkansas 1850 census and in the LAST county (of course) we found my husband's great grandfather. Now it would take 2 minutes on ancestry.com!! Michele In a message dated 3/30/2012 12:22:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello List, Does anyone know how people will search the new census before it is indexed? Thank You, C Brisbon