The 1940 Census appears to be alive and well on Ancestry.com. It took me less than 5 minutes to find my family but I had a rather easy time of it. In 1940 we were at Fort Randolph, in the Panama Canal Zone. I started by selecting 'Panama Canal' from a dropdown list of States followed by the city 'Christobal' (other choice Panama City on the Pacific side) and then 'Fort Randolph' from a third dropdown list. Then I selected the enumerations District(s) and the very first page had my family, my father being a Captain at the time. We were on the same page as the commanding officer. Although I was only 6 at the time, I recognize a number of names of the other officers. We were a small community. All very exciting! Brad Miter
Congrats Brad! I was in Jamaica New York. I think I'll wait for the every name index! Marianne Arnold On Apr 2, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Bradford H Miter wrote: > The 1940 Census appears to be alive and well on Ancestry.com. It took me > less than 5 minutes to find my family but I had a rather easy time of it. > In 1940 we were at Fort Randolph, in the Panama Canal Zone. I started by > selecting 'Panama Canal' from a dropdown list of States followed by the city > 'Christobal' (other choice Panama City on the Pacific side) and then 'Fort > Randolph' from a third dropdown list. Then I selected the enumerations > District(s) and the very first page had my family, my father being a Captain > at the time. We were on the same page as the commanding officer. Although > I was only 6 at the time, I recognize a number of names of the other > officers. We were a small community. > > > > All very exciting! > > Brad Miter > > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Time for Society Members to pay up their **2012 Dues**. See the Website for details: > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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