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jfdonohue3

I’m finding it difficult to find the census records from 1940. This is not a very user friendly application 

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  • 0 in reply to pmcg

    Your help would be appreciated. The name is James Francis Donohue Sr. From Huntington Station, NY I believe on 4 st. 

  • 0 in reply to jfdonohue3

    In case P.McG has trouble finding your target by a name index..... and over 5% of the 1940 population for one reason or another did not participate on this census (the "undercount"), I looked at a possible geographical approach since you know where, about, his residence was.  If that address is missing from the enumeration district (ED) then he probably was missed.  First, I tried to find a 1940 ED map for Huntington Station.  No luck.  Then I used our https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html?year=1940 picking New York State, City: Other Specify, and typed in Huntington Station.  Then pressed  More Details, and saw the boundary descriptions of the 1940 EDs for the community.  Looking at a modern map of the area, and the descriptions, I thought that ED 52-102 might enclose the address, and following our link to the first page of the ED, and looking through it, I do see 4th St residences.  But no Donohue.  In 1940, the enumerator made a second sweep of the ED and put those people on a sheet he/she labelled as "61A" (sheet number in upper right of sheet)..... and I looked at the 61As....on this ED #, but no Donohue.  You might recheck my results.  But to help P.McG..... what and where was James born, as James Donohue is a relatively common name.

  • 0 in reply to Joel Weintraub

    He was born in Ireland. I tried the Steve Morse site also but it was confusing to me and I couldn’t use my phone to try anymore. I’ll try to see if any of the libraries have Ancestry for free and try there. I appreciate your help. Stay well. 

  • 0 in reply to jfdonohue3

    Hi jfdonohue3

    I found it on Ancestry & I appreciate Joel's help & explination of how to navigate stevemorse.org site!. 

    I am unsure if you can enlarge it as we can only post images 1MB or less & the original jpg was more than 3MB so pasted it to a Word document & then copied it here (also tried png & bmp but also too big]

    Hope this is the right family -living on West 4th St 

    -James F Donahue 45yrs

    Catherine 45yrs

    John L 20yrs

    James Jr 18yrs

    Vera 16yrs

    - I also went to Family Search [at the llink I posted in my previous reply] & he was also easily found there - I did enter his wife's name to narrow the choices

    This link should take you to his census page - its a free site - just need to register

    https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K795-G6W 

    - on LEFT side of page  you can "View Original Document" & on RIGHT side you can see link to 1930 census

    Hopefully you can view -let me know if you have a problem

    P.McG