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• 04/02/12 1940 Census - posted by Steve - skruft<at>comcast.net
• 04/03/12 Re: 1940 Census - posted by Paul Rosenberg
• 04/03/12 Re: 1940 Census - posted by Jo Anne Q.
• 04/03/12 Re: 1940 Census - posted by Jo Anne Q.

1940 Census

The 1940 Census data was released today.

Of course it has not yet been indexed, so it is not worth spending much time with it, but I was able to find my old block in the Sunset. To do so, I had to look at an old SF map marked with "enumeration districts" and then find the right batch of census pages.

I was surprised to find that most of the houses there (on 29th) had been built before April 1935. This census, unlike older ones, has a space showing where each person lived in April, 1935, and most said they lived in the same place. I would have expected more of a 1935-40 timeframe.