Comments on: Open Thread Thursday: What Has The 1940 Census Meant for the Genealogy Industry? http://geneabloggers.com/open-thread-thursday-1940-census-meant-genealogy-industry/ The ultimate site for your genealogy blog Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joel Weintraub http://geneabloggers.com/open-thread-thursday-1940-census-meant-genealogy-industry/#comment-11528 Joel Weintraub Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:26:31 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=18439#comment-11528 What I’m pleased about, is that genealogists realized that locational tools to search the census are not as difficult or arcane or obsolete as one might think. Before the census opened, there were a number of bloggers that basically said, they would wait for a name index. But the apparent ease that genealogists are finding 1940 addresses and locations hiding in their “shoeboxes” of documents, and their apparent success rates at finding target families, brought even the doubters to the locational search strategy camp. I’m hopeful they take a look at doing similar searches for previous census years for their brick wall families on the One-Step site.

Joel Weintraub
Dana Point, CA

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