Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:It’s Saturday Night again –time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and I hope more of you do than participated in the last several SNGF challenges), is to:
1) How many people in your country had your four grandparents exact last names at birth in the 1940 U.S. Census? [Note, if you’re playing and not in the U.S., pick an appropriate database in your country.] What about your spouse’s grandparents last names at birth?
2) List each last name at birth and the number of persons in the 1940 U.S. Census [or other database] using an exact surname match. I suggest using FamilySearch because it is free, but you can use another website (the results should be the same!) if you wish.
3) Have you performed a “one-name search” for any of those last names and added them to do family tree?
My Line:
- Crawford – 93,620
- Currey 2,34
- Briles 844
- Mentzer 2,493
My husband’s line
- Philbrick 2,005
- Sebring 1,573
- Griffith 48,168
- Strohmeier 288
Have I tried to do a ‘one name’ study with the 1940 census: NO
While I do record everyone of a surname living in a county where my grandparents lived, I have not done a study of everyone of one of my surnames in the 1940 census.