{"id":73099,"date":"2012-03-21T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=73099"},"modified":"2012-03-23T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T22:51:45","slug":"the-1940-u-s-census-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/the-1940-u-s-census-is-coming-soon-73099.html","title":{"rendered":"The 1940 U.S. Census is Coming Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of the 1940 U.S. census records is less than two weeks away! Are you excited to get your hands on these documents and upload them to your family&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/\">Geni<\/a> profiles? Let&#8217;s take a look at what you can expect to find in the 1940 census records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schedule-l.jpg-720\u00d7562-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73438\" title=\"schedule l.jpg  720\u00d7562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schedule-l.jpg-720\u00d7562-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schedule-l.jpg-720\u00d7562-.png 690w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schedule-l.jpg-720\u00d7562--300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schedule-l.jpg-720\u00d7562--600x123.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard information from census records:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Age<\/li>\n<li>Gender<\/li>\n<li>Marital status<\/li>\n<li>Race<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Occupation<\/li>\n<li>Place of birth<\/li>\n<li>Citizenship<\/li>\n<li>Place of residence<\/li>\n<li>Home owned or rented? Value of the home?<\/li>\n<li>Relationship to head of household<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New questions in the 1940 census:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Income for the past year<\/li>\n<li>Did the person work for the CCC, WPA or NYA the week of March 24-30<\/li>\n<li>Supplemental schedule for two names on each page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Questions for the supplemental schedule include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place of birth of the person&#8217;s father and mother<\/li>\n<li>Is the person a veteran or the child of a veteran<\/li>\n<li>For all women who are or have been married, has this woman been married more than once and age at\u00a0first marriage, number of children born<\/li>\n<li>For people 14 years or older &#8211; does the person have a social security number, the person&#8217;s usual occupation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to mark your calendars &#8211; the 1940 U.S. census will be available April 2. Check out the video below to learn more about the 1940s census!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXY1pHEf5hU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1940census.archives.gov\/\">Visit the Official Website of the 1940 Census<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of the 1940 U.S. census records is less than two weeks away! Are you excited to get your hands on these documents and upload them to your family&#8217;s\u00a0Geni profiles? Let&#8217;s take a look at what you can expect to find in the 1940 census records. Standard information from census records: Name Age Gender Marital status Race Education Occupation Place of birth Citizenship Place of residence Home owned or rented? Value of the home?&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/the-1940-u-s-census-is-coming-soon-73099.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":73440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[4923,4811,611,4538,2201],"class_list":["post-73099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research","tag-4923","tag-census","tag-documents","tag-genealogy","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73099"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73626,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73099\/revisions\/73626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}