2012-04-06T01:14:09Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/1940-census-updatetag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/958/35932012-04-06T01:14:09ZSursumCorda<p>Ancestry now has the first two states indexed: Delaware and Nevada. That doesn't help me any, but it shows how fast they're working to get the indices available.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/958/35922012-04-05T18:16:05ZSursumCorda<p>That's why I'm waiting for the census to be indexed. I know Ancestry will eventually have an every-name searchable index, and FamilySearch probably will, too.</p> <p>One thing to do now would be to find the family in 1930; you can search for free on <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6224" rel="nofollow noopener">Ancestry</a>. When you have that, you can find what Enumeration District they were in. (It's in the upper right hand corner of the image, and also in the course citation on the Ancestry entry. (Try their new interactive viewer -- it's great.) Or, if it's someone in your family, I may already know their 1930 ED. :)</p> <p>Once you have the ED, you can enter it into the calculator at Steve Morse's site (link above), and you'll get suggestions as to what 1940 EDs the family might have been living in. Then you can search page by page for each of the EDs until you find them. If they haven't moved between 1930 and 1940, that is.</p> <p>Using an index is a much more efficient use of time, but browsing the images sometimes leads to serendipitous findings.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/958/35912012-04-05T17:50:39ZPhil Daley<p>I read in the paper that you can't search by name. How do you find someone if you don't know where they were living?</p>