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1930 United States Federal Census
[Excerpt]... The 1930 Census was begun on 2 April 1930, with the exception of Alaska, where the official start date was 1 October 1929. The following questions were asked by enumerators for all states and territories excepting Alaska: Name of street, avenue road, etc.; house number; number of dwellings in order of visitation; number of family in order of visitation; name of each person whose place of abode was with the family; relationship of person enumerated to the head of the family; whether home owned or rented; value of home if owned; if rented, monthly rental; whether family owned a radio set; whether family owned a farm; sex; color or race; age at last birthday; whether single, married, widowed, or divorced; age at first marriage; whether attended school or college any time since 1 September 1929; whether able to read or write; person's place of birth; father's place of birth; mother's place of birth; language spoken in home before immigration; year of immigration to United States; whether naturalized or alien; whether able to speak English; trade, profession, or particular kind of work done; industry, business, or establishment in which at work; whether employer, salary or wage worker, or working on own account; whether actually at work the previous work day; if not, line number on unemployment schedule (which no longer exist); whether veteran of U.S. military or naval forces, if yes, which war or expedition; number on farm schedule.....
NARA Preparing 1930 U.S. Census
[Excerpt]... Recently I visited NARA (Chicago) to continue my research. I noticed some new filing cabinets and walked over to check on them. What I found was drawers and drawers of new microfilms of U.S. city directories from around 1928, 1930, 1931, or 1932. On top of the cabinet was a 53-page index of all the films available from numerous cities around the country. Apparently, the files contain over 850 rolls of film. It looks like NARA is preparing for the release of the 1930 U.S. Census next year. In the meantime, researchers can already check for addresses of their families using these new films of city directories. I did.....
Locating Ancestors in the 1930 Census
[Excerpt]... So all of us can rush right out and find our families in the 1930 census, right? Not quite. We've become accustomed from most of the earlier census records to using the Soundex finding aid. This personal name indexing tool makes it relatively easy for us to pluck our ancestors out of the millions of names in a given census, and those of us whose kin resided in twelve southern states will still have this luxury for the 1930 census. To be more specific, indexes using the Soundex exist for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky (part), Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia (part).....
Here Comes the 1930 Census!
[Excerpt]... We've known for almost seventy-two years what information was asked on the Fifteenth Census of the United States in 1930. Census day that year was 1 April 1930. Census day is the benchmark day on which the enumerators, or census takers, based their questions. One such question for my Grandmother MORGAN would have been, "On April first, what was your age?" (Knowing her, the answer was absolute fiction; she never admitted her real age until the day she turned ninety.) ....
The 1930 Census Online
[Excerpt]... In the past, census records have provided genealogists with a great deal of useful information--names of family members and their ages, immigration and naturalization dates and places, occupation, and financial worth. Public access to such records, however, is granted only after seventy-two years have elapsed. For this reason, we both eagerly awaited the release of the 1930 census. (The Privacy Rights Act protects all federal records for a period of seventy-two years. This means the information contained in any such record is private and may only be accessed by the individual named in the record. For that reason, the 1930 census records were not released to the public until 2002.)....
Radio Ownership in the 1930 Census
[Excerpt]... . It has intrigued me why the ownership of a radio is one of the questions asked in the 1930 census. I don't have the definitive answer, but I bumped into background information in a paragraph in Seabiscuit , by Laura Hillenbrand (page 128 in the paperback edition). She starts out by talking about how technological innovations in photography, cinematography, and wire services offered the public "unprecedented access to its heroes."
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"Have You Explored the 1930 Census Yet? Surprises Await!"
[Excerpt]... Earlier this evening, while my husband and daughter went out for haircuts, I decided to sneak in a little quiet time working on our family history. As I pondered what my focus would be, I got a little case of "the guilts." Although I had pulled the 1930 census listings for a few of my direct lines, I had put off several of them, writing it off as "grunt work" to be done later when I ran out of more exciting things to do. After all, there weren't going to be any surprises in this later enumeration. I already knew about these people. Wrong. I was in for an interesting evening.
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My 1930 Census Experiences
[Excerpt]... I quickly located my four rural grandparents, all of whom were still living "at home" in 1930. Three were easily located by searching the same township in which their family was enumerated in 1920. My paternal grandmother, whose family moved several times during the 1920-30 time period was located by searching several townships along Hancock-Adams County, Illinois, line. When the families are rural and don't move often or very far, it is not too difficult to find them in the census.
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Making the 1930 Census Count
[Excerpt]... When the enumeration of the Fifteenth Decennial Census of the United States occurred in 1930, the 87,756 enumerators (at a cost of $40 million) wrote the names and statistics of over 137 million individuals. Federal law kept these names confidential for seventy-two years, but the wait is now over. On 1 April 2002, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will release on microfilm all 137,008,435 names. But we really don't want to look at all of these names, just the ones that identify our ancestors and relatives. How do we sort through this abundance of riches and find just those names that are of interest to us?....
1930 U.S. Federal Census Index: New York, Northeast (Deluxe Edition)
[Excerpt]... Available only through Ancestry.com, this instantly searchable disc details more than 1.3 million names enumerated in the Fifteenth Census in the state of New York. The 1930 U.S. Federal Census series includes a new and improved viewer that now delivers full-name index searching for every name in the census record index, including the ability to view neighbors to the household within the enumeration district.
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