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 birthday of actress and comedian Carol Burnett, who was born April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas. Where should you start? According to some sources, while Carole was born in San Antonio her parents separated in the late 1930s and she went to Hollywood, California to live with their grandmother, Mabel Eudora White, in her boarding house.

Found Carol Burnett 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, April 29, 2012 at 11:59pm PT.

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 of the previous year.

Tina Turner, then 5 months old is listed under her birth name of Anna Bullock in 1940.