Yes, I'm one of those who has been perusing the newly released 1940 Census. I have tracked down some of my ancestors, most of whom lived in various parts of Kansas in 1940.

Tag line: "You cannot know your country unless your country knows you."
Why does that creep me out?
Edited to add poster.
Tag line: "You cannot know your country unless your country knows you."
Why does that creep me out?
Edited to add poster.
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Date: 2012-04-06 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-06 12:30 pm (UTC)http://gawker.com/5898790/how-to-find-cool-stuff-in-the-newly+released-1940-census-data-or-cyberstalking-your-grandparents
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Date: 2012-04-06 01:13 pm (UTC)I'm trying to do my part and help index these. I have mixed feelings about doing it because of the way a certain religious group tends to, at least in my opinion, abuse the information. On the other hand, someone somewhere will eventually tag all these things sooner or later. I figure most people do genealogical research for reasons other than religious reasons and they're the ones I want to help.
[Edited to remove language that I realized sounded pretty intolerant. My apologies to anyone who saw that.]
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Date: 2012-04-06 01:50 pm (UTC)To others on this forum, don't give up. its well worth the wait.
I wanted to find out who was living in the home i live in now. Being a Librarian, i had already done some research and found out the street has three different names over the years. So keep that in mind.
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Date: 2012-04-06 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-06 10:26 am (UTC)How can I not love a statement like that?
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Date: 2012-04-06 12:32 pm (UTC)Soon we will all be able to know everything about all our family's as more and more of these type of records are available.
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Date: 2012-04-06 02:16 pm (UTC)Doing ancestry research certainly has it's darker side (and I definitely am NOT trying to make a pun here!) On my family's Southern side, the 1860 census shows that one of my ancestors had 2 slaves: a 19-year-old black woman and her 2-year-old "mulatto" daughter. Of course, this information came from a separate list just for slaves and no names were on it. On the 1870 census, it showed that a 29-year-old black woman and her 12-year-old mulatto daughter were living in the home and now I could see that the mother's name was Martha and the daughter's name was Louisa. Their occupation was listed as "farm laborer" and the mother had had two more children, both of them black.
I wasn't crazy to find out my ancestors were slaveholders, but it is what it is, and just that one census record tells so much. Even though Martha was free, she didn't have many options at that time so she stayed on with the family. I strongly suspect Louisa was fathered by her owners, which would make her a distant blood relative to me, but Martha probably chose the lover who was the father of her other children. At least I hope that's how it was.
Unfortunately, I could not find any of them in the 1880 census. They were no longer living with the white family and I can only hope they moved on to better things. But maybe not.