{"id":3507,"date":"2012-04-06T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2012-04-06T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:25:03","slug":"the-1940s-census-is-here-and-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2012\/04\/06\/the-1940s-census-is-here-and-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1940s Census is here! And it works!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ancestry Library has finished uploading all of the 1940 Census images to its database.\u00a0 They are now working on indexing—at this posting, Delaware was finished and\u00a0everything else is pending.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, you can <\/em>find your relatives by browsing the right Enumeration District (ED).<\/p>\n

An Enumeration District is a geographical area assigned to a census taker.\u00a0\u00a0 City directories and other resources can help you determine your relative\u2019s address during a census year.\u00a0 An Enumeration Map will tell you in which ED that address is located.<\/p>\n

The Enumeration Districts for Davenport are ED 82-19 to ED 82-69 and ED 82-67. Institutions such as hospitals, orphanages and boarding schools had their own EDs.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, the first searches we tried (and were successful in downloading) were for the Iowa Soldier\u2019s Orphan\u2019s Home, AKA the Annie Wittenmyer Home<\/a> (ED 82-51) and the Catholic\u00a0 orphanage in Davenport, St. Vincent\u2019s Home<\/a> (ED 82-36)<\/p>\n

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There were 559 children living at the Iowa Soldier\u2019s Orphan\u2019s Home and 56 at St. Vincent\u2019s.\u00a0 In 1930, there were 598 children at Annie Wittenmyer and 96 children at St. Vincent\u2019s. The census not only lists the orphaned children living in the home, but also employees, including teachers, caretakers and administrators.<\/p>\n

Exciting stuff for historians and genealogists!<\/p>\n

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(posted by Cristina)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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