The Rochester Public Library has added the 1940 Rochester and Suburban directories to earlier ones that they already had online. These will be of great help in finding your family on the 1940 census that comes online on April 2nd. There won’t be any index available for the census for at least 6 months to …
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The National Archives has announced the website where the 1940 census will be starting on April 2nd. It is at: 1940census.archives.gov If you go there right now, there is a video giving a brief description of how to search through the records. The website is being managed by Archive.com. You can expect there will be …
I made some big errors in my posting on the 1940 Census from 2 Feb. I made corrections to that ‘post.” Sorry for any mistakes and confusion that I caused. The incorrect information came from a talk at the RootsTech conference that turned out to be a sales talk from another company.
The 1940 US census is being released on 2 April at 9:00 a.m. (eastern). The National Archives awarded the contract to post free images of the census pages to Archives.com There is this web page on Archives.com with details about the 1940 census. It is not clear if the census pages will be on Archives.com …
On Family Search is an index to the 1892 NY State Census. No one is sure why New York State did a census in 1892. The State had done census on years ending in a “5″ from 1825 to 1875 but didn’t do a census in 1885. Some people think that the 1892 census was …
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I was going to write about the 1865 NY State census that is available on Family Search. I found out that I wrote about that collection in this blog in this posting in 2009 when it was added. The 1865 census isn’t indexed but if you know what Town your ancestor lived in then you …
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Census records have proven to be great for doing genealogical research. We are taking another federal census in 2010. You will be getting your form to fill out in the mail in March. The actual census day is April first (no fooling). That is the day when people are supposed to record those people living …
1892 New York State census records have been indexed by volunteers and are searchable.
The LDS have added the 1905 New York State census to their on-line collection.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) have added the 1865 New York State census to their on-line collection.