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From: Lisa Gorrell <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] reading the 1940 census images
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 14:17:20 -0700
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I have enjoyed reading line by line in the 1940 census. My first attempt
was finding the occupants of my house. I'm planning on printing out
several pages and walking the neighborhood trying to find the houses that
were here in 1940. There weren't very many--it was all rural back then!

I have also found other family when looking for the one family on my list.
It's a wonderful surprise. I plan to print out the pages my aunts and
grandmother are on and get them to tell stories of their lives and
neighbor's lives. I'm sure it will spark memories.

Lisa Gorrell


On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM, <> wrote:

> Mary wrote:
> >Reading page by page through the 1940 census brings to my mind the days I
> got up at 5 am to drive 180 miles to the National Archives branch in Kansas
> City to read film until the staff closed the doors on me late in the
> afternoon. Then I drove the 180 miles home again. I'm sure this is one of
> the causes of my wearing tri-focal lenses today.
>
> Mary, I'll chalk one up in your column and try to outdo you. :) I remember
> the year I spent every lunch hour, the *whole* year, at the university
> library next door to the office where I worked--reading the 1840 census of
> Louisiana, line by line, page by page, looking for my mother-in-law's
> great-grandfather.
>
> Elizabeth
> ------------------------------------------------------
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> The Evidence Series, www.EvidenceExplained.com
> & www.HistoricPathways.com
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