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Today in history, just 71 years ago on December 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor shocking the nation. This devastating event marked the entrance of the United States entering into World War II. The US was propelled into war officially on December 8, 1941 following a stirring speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that unified a country and … Continue reading »
Thousands of British women found love during the Second World War. American and Canadian troops stationed in Britain during the War gained a reputation as being ‘overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here’. British women married these servicemen in huge numbers, with approximately 100,000 wedding Americans and a further 45,000 marrying Canadians. Once the war was … Continue reading »
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 »
Names don’t age well – 1940 vs. Today While indexing the 1940 census last week, we noticed that many of the first names in the census are no longer popular. In fact, some names are so obscure they run the risk of becoming endangered. We were interested in how names have changed since 1940 so … Continue reading »
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 »
We just found the 1940 census enumeration for famed superstar Tina Turner. Tina Turner, whose birth name was Anna Mae Bullock is living with her parents, Richard (Floyd) and Zelma Bullock and her older sister Alline in Nutbush, Hayward County, Tennessee. Her father was working as a farm laborer and had worked just 30 weeks … Continue reading »
1940 was a busy year for Wendell Willkie, who was competing for the Republican Presidential nomination against Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Thomas E. Dewey of New York City. Before June’s convention the nominee had not been decided (an interesting comparison to this year’s current 2012 Republican primary field). … Continue reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
