Several people have reached out to me for the answers to yesterday’s scavenger hunt of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census. Abram Earle and his family were living at 79. West Roosevelt Ave. His wife Ethel was listed as 44 years-old.
Yesterday you tried your hand at finding my family and yours in the 1940 Census using FamilySearch.org. Today we’re going to do the same for the 1930 Census.
Sign into your FamilySearch.org account.
Click on Search. This is usually located in the top navigation bar.
Choose Records. This is usually accessible by hovering on the work “Search” in the top navigation bar.
Go to the “Find A Collection” section of the search page. This section is usually on the bottom right.
Type into the search box “United States Census” and you will see a drop down menu appear listing all the U.S. Census records sets.
Choose United States Census, 1930.
Do a search for my great-grandpa Abram Earle. Again, we know he was born in 1891 in Twillingate Newfoundland. After he immigrated to the U.S. he lived in Freeport, Roosevelt, Bellmore, and Merrick; all communities on the South Shore of Western Nassau County on Long Island, NY. His wife’s name was Ethel. And in addition to my grandpa, Edwin born in 1925, he has another son named Allen who was born in about 1915.
Find the record. After you find it in the list of hits. Click on the icon that looks like a sheet of paper. From there you can also access the image of the actual record.
Click on the image and tell me the name of the person in the household who is not an Earle. What is the person’s relationship to Abram? Did any of the men in this household serve in WWI?
Then try finding your relatives you found in the 1940 census yesterday in the 1930 census.
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