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Saturday, April 7, 2012

1940 Search Tip


         

Today's article will be short.

Without an index finding your ancestor is a massive effort searching each enumeration district page by page, line by line.

Today's Tip:

Look up your male ancestor in the World War II (WWII) Draft Card database on Ancestry.com[1].
This will give you an address and a starting point. 


Take this card, I had no idea that my Uncle John was in North Carolina in the early 1940's. China Grove, at that time, was a big industrial textile city. Today that's all gone along with many others in the textile and furniture business.


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2 comments:

  1. Gibsonville Book NookApril 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM

    Thanks for this good tip. I hadn't thought about using the WW II Draft Cards for the addresses!

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  2. Charlie PurvisApril 7, 2012 at 12:35 PM

    I did find my Uncle as a result of this card.

    1940 U. S. Census, Rowan County, North Carolina, population schedule, China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) #80-7, Page 142A/20A; Line 17, Household #337, Household of John C. PURVIS; digital images, 1940 CENSUS (http://1940census.archives.gov : viewed 7 April 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2968.

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