released as in, no more privacy issues, released for the public viewing. We genealogists are Jumping!
Seriously, I'm taking a week off from blogging to hit the National Archives site to find some of my own ancestors on this census and I do so hope that they fall in the "every 16th family" category.
What's so special of being in that category? During the 1940 census every 16th family was asked ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS! (SEE CORRECTION BELOW!)
LINK TO THE EXACT PAGE TO START ABOVE and ON THE SIDE BAR! GOOD LUCK!
APRIL 1940 100,000 CENSUS TAKERS fan out across the United States... to finish their work in one month.
CORRECTION : I attended a lecture by Steve Morse yesterday and actually it's not every 16th family as you go down the list. In order to mix it up a bit, it was 5% of the population as determined by the line number on a page. The line numbers could be 14, 29, 54 and 68, for instance. (Census was taken on the BACKS of pages as well.)
