Hi Aimee! I recently discovered your channel thanks to the collaboration with Genealogy TV - love the content you provide! Do you have any advice for finding ancestors who seem to be "missing" from the census? I have great-grandparents that I know should be in the 1930 and 1940 censuses, but cannot find them. Even tried using their known address and using the enumeration district of that address to look through the entire district. Think they were skipped, which may be a possibility. Thanks!
You've done what I would have recommended. I have also looked up their neighbors to see if they are found near them in the other censuses. Are you sure they were at that address though? Is it possible they were in a different location? But I have had individuals who were missed in a census, it just seems unusual they would be missed twice.
Don't just look at the image. Look at the WHOLE image. On at least three occasions, looking at the whole image has uncovered other family members. But my favorite was when I found my great grandparents with their daughter (my grandmother) living with them. But the real surprise was at the top - my 20 year old grandmother was the census taker!
Thank you so much for this video and all the videos on your channel! They have been a great help as I start researching my family tree. I was wondering if you had any tips in regards to farm schedules listed on the census, particularly for more recent censuses (1900-1950) as I can see the reference number on the census records, but not a separate document like the previous years listed on archives.gov? Got lots of farmers in my family tree and wondering if I can find/see those farm schedules. :)
Yes! Sometimes they are hard to find. Ancestry has some as does FamilySearch but you can also get them in Archives.gov or they may be held locally (state archives or libraries). Unfortunately sometimes they were destroyed as they were deemed unnecessary to keep (such as 1950). Check out these articles: www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Census_Agricultural_Schedules, familytreemagazine.com/records/census/genealogy-workbook-special-censuses/
Hi Aimee! I recently discovered your channel thanks to the collaboration with Genealogy TV - love the content you provide! Do you have any advice for finding ancestors who seem to be "missing" from the census? I have great-grandparents that I know should be in the 1930 and 1940 censuses, but cannot find them. Even tried using their known address and using the enumeration district of that address to look through the entire district. Think they were skipped, which may be a possibility. Thanks!
You've done what I would have recommended. I have also looked up their neighbors to see if they are found near them in the other censuses. Are you sure they were at that address though? Is it possible they were in a different location? But I have had individuals who were missed in a census, it just seems unusual they would be missed twice.
Thank You Thank You
You’re welcome!
Don't just look at the image. Look at the WHOLE image. On at least three occasions, looking at the whole image has uncovered other family members. But my favorite was when I found my great grandparents with their daughter (my grandmother) living with them. But the real surprise was at the top - my 20 year old grandmother was the census taker!
SO very true!! Thanks for adding that. Love that your grandmother was the census taker!
Thank you so much for this video and all the videos on your channel! They have been a great help as I start researching my family tree. I was wondering if you had any tips in regards to farm schedules listed on the census, particularly for more recent censuses (1900-1950) as I can see the reference number on the census records, but not a separate document like the previous years listed on archives.gov? Got lots of farmers in my family tree and wondering if I can find/see those farm schedules. :)
Yes! Sometimes they are hard to find. Ancestry has some as does FamilySearch but you can also get them in Archives.gov or they may be held locally (state archives or libraries). Unfortunately sometimes they were destroyed as they were deemed unnecessary to keep (such as 1950). Check out these articles: www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Census_Agricultural_Schedules, familytreemagazine.com/records/census/genealogy-workbook-special-censuses/