Each week findmypast presents a weekly 1940 Census Hunt, a chance to put your 1940 census browsing skills to the test. The first person to complete the challenge, and e-mail their results (a short step-by-step description of how you found each individual and a copy of the census images) to rdenning@brightsolid.com will receive 500 credits on findmypast.com and a writeup on the official findmypast blog.
This week’s hunt celebrates the first American in space, Alan Shepard. Shepard became the second person to travel into space on May 5, 1961 when piloting the Freedom 7 mission. Born in New Hampshire, Shepard had a long and successful career at NASA.
Where should you start? Take a look at Alan Shepard with his family in the 1930 U.S. Census below.
Shepard Family 1930 U.S. Census, Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Found Alan Shepard in the 1940 Census?
E-mail a copy of the census images and a short step-by-step description of how you found it to rdenning@brightsolid.com.
This week’s contest closes Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 11:59pm PT.
Lucky or un-lucky me. I was able to track down the ED number for my gtredparnnas street in St. Louis in 1940. The street was there but the census takers only did one side of the street and not the side my gtredparnnas lived on. Oh and I did look at many previous and post ED numbers to see if they got on a different sheet, but no luck. I guess no one is perfect.
I’m confused, how does high fletirity and a decline mortality make for the majority of the Ghanaian population being of a young age? Wouldn’t it make more sense that an decline in mortality would lead to the majority of the population being old people instead? In theory, a decline in fletirity is a good thing, for that means that the rapidly increasing population of Ghana would decrease or become more constant and thus more manageable. Less resources would be exploited if there is a decline in population growth, and there will be enough resources for the entire population. However, a decline in fletirity may subsequently lead to an increase in mortality, where if fletirity doesn’t increase, the population would decrease drastically. However, with the use of contraceptions and other family planning methods, the number of births and the increase in population can be controlled, and with HIV/AIDS education and other illness education mortality can be controlled to some extent. And is it even possible for family to have 4.7 children??? :-S