Saturday, October 6, at 2 p.m., Conference Room This event is
co-sponsored by the Middlesex Genealogical Society. The eagerly
awaited 1940 Census made its public debut on April 2, 2012, but
early users were challenged by the lack of an index. What a
difference four months and thousands of volunteers can make! The
Census is now completely indexed and ready to be explored. Most
researchers find it helpful to begin with the 1940 Census and
work backwards to locate people in earlier generations. Toni
McKeen will share tips and tricks developed over the years to
help locate difficult relatives who don’t seem to want to be
found. Census records can provide the building blocks of
genealogical research, both confirming information and offering
leads to expand a family tree. Taken at the end of the Great
Depression and on the brink of U.S. involvement in World War II,
the 1940 Census documents Americans during a time of national
struggle. The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790,
and has been taken every