Lawrence Family JCC
Executive Drive & Genesee Ave., La Jolla, CA
All meetings start at 1:00 p.m. on second Sunday of the month
unless otherwise announced.
May 20, 2012
At
1:00pm
Accessing the 1940 Census
A look at locational search tools for finding people on the 1940 census
By
Joel Weintraub
When the 1940 U.S. census was released on April 2, 2012, there were no searchable indexes. Just hundreds of thousands of digitized pages, containing approximately 132.2 million names. I think you will agree that is a bit too many pages to browse through one at a time, so to start your 1940 census research you will need to know where your people were living in 1940. .Joel will guide us though the steps and resources that will assist us in locating this important information
Joel Weintraub is an emeritus Biology Professor at California State University, Fullerton. He became interested in genealogy about 15 years ago, and volunteered for 9 years at the National Archives and Records Administration in southern California. Joel started transcribing streets within census districts in 2001 to help researchers search the 1930 U.S. Census (released in 2002). He was joined in the venture by David Kehs and Stephen Morse in 2002, and together, they have produced a number of online census searching utilities
