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 … Continue reading »
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Findmypast’s 1940 Census Hunt – Week 3
Findmypast’s 1940 Census Hunt – Week 3 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) … Continue reading »
Findmypast’s 1940 Census Hunt – Titanic
Welcome to the findmypast 1940 Census Hunt! Each week findmypast will present the 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 … Continue reading »
Findmypast’s Personal Finds in the 1940 Census
While have had some fun finding celebrities, presidents, and others in the 1940 Census, we have also been hard at work finding our own families. Brian Speckart, findmypast’s marketing manager located his mother, living in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. Luckily enough she was asked the supplemental questions (though being only a few weeks old, she … Continue reading »
Find Bette Davis in the 1940 Census and win a 6-month subscription
Today, April 5, 2012 marks what would have been the 104th birthday of Bette Davis. While we have continued to post our finds in the 1940 census over the past few days, we have yet to find Bette Davis and are inviting you to help us look! Here are the details: The first person to … Continue reading »
Gerald R. Ford
We accepted the challenge from the Ford Presidential Library to locate President Ford in the 1940 U.S Census. We got him in under an hour living with his parents in Grand Rapids, Michigan Continue reading »
James Dean in Our Backyard
As you might have noticed the team at findmypast.com has found quite a few popular figures in the recently released 1940 Census. Judy Garland, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nancy Pelosi, and the “rebel” himself, James Dean are among those who we have uncovered. We were extremely surprised to find that James Dean was living at … Continue reading »
