I'm forwarding the below message because it's of interest to all of us waiting for the 1930 census. Sorry if you receive more than one message. Jerry W. Murphy [email protected] Jerry's Homepage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jwmurphy/ Rootsweb List Administrator: ALFRANKL-L, TNHARDIN-L, TNWAYNE-L, BRATTON-L, COCHRAN-L, HAFLEY-L, PATTERSON-L, SOWERBY-L Wayne County, Tennessee Web Page: http://www.netease.net/wayne Wayne County Computer Club: http://www.netease.net/waccc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim E Cochran" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: [COCHRAN] 1930 Census > > > The 1930 Federal Population Census by the National Archives and Records > Administration (NARA) will be released on 01 Apr 2002. By law, census > records are restricted for seventy-two years for privacy reasons, but > the wait is almost over. Since the census day in 1930 was 01 April, that > is the day that two thousand, six hundred and sixty-seven microfilmed > rolls of population schedules will be released for public access at > the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and thirteen regional branches, > this year. > > Please be aware that most of the earlier census records to used the > Soundex > finding aid. This personal name indexing tool makes it relatively easy > for us to find our ancestors out of the millions of names in a given > census. That is not the case in the 1930 census, with the exception of > twelve southern states, which will still have Soundex for the 1930 > census. > Indexes using the Soundex exist for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, > Florida, Georgia, Kentucky (part), Louisiana, Mississippi, North > Carolina, > South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia (part). > > Below is the list of questions that were asked on the 1930 Federal > Census: > > QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE 1930 CENSUS > > The 1930 Federal Census form called for: > > 01. Street, avenue, road, house number, > 02. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation, > 03. Number of family in order of visitation; > 04. Name of each person whose place of abode on 01 Apr 1930 was in this > family; > 05. Relationship of this person to the head of the family; > 06. Home owned or rented, value of home, if owned or monthly rental, if > rented; > 07. Radio set; > 08. Does this family live on a farm?; > 09. Sex; color or race; > 10. Age at last birthday; > 11. Marital condition; > 12. Age at first marriage; > 13. Attended school or college at any time since 1 September 1929; > 14. Whether able to read or write; > 15. Place of birth-person, place of birth-father, place of birth-mother; > 16. Language spoken in home before coming to the United States; > 17. Year of immigration into the United States; > 18. Naturalization; > 19. Whether able to speak English; > 20. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, > 21. Industry of business, class of worker; > 22. Whether actually at work yesterday, if not, line on unemployment > schedule; > 23. Whether a veteran of U.S. military or naval force--yes or no, what > war > or expedition; > 24. Number of farm schedule (Note: The farm schedules have not > survived.). > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >