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1930 United States Federal Census, https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10134-187229661/joseph-carlson-in-1930-united-states-federal-census
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| | The 1930 Census determined the population of the United States to be 122,775,046. This is an increase of almost 16 percent over the 1920 Census, which reported a population of 106,021,537. This was the 15th decennial census conducted in the United States under authority granted by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. It was conducted in April 1930, except in Alaska, where it wasconducted in late 1929. Until 2012 the 1930 Census is the latest available to the public, due to 72-year privacy laws. It is based on actual counts of persons living in residential structures. |
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1940 United States Federal Census, https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10053-698505513/joseph-r-carlson-in-1940-united-states-federal-census
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| | We undertook the arduous task of deciphering the handwritten pages of the 1940 Census to create a searchable index for the census. This was accomplished gradually, state by state, as we covered more and more of the census.As required by the US Constitution, the census is a federal mandate to count every resident of the United States of America every 10 years. Census data is released to the public72 years after it was taken.Federal census takers were asked to record information about every person who was in each household on the census day. A census taker might have visited a house on a laterdate, but the information he collected was supposed to be about the people who were in the house on the census day. The basic census enumeration unit was the county. Each county was divided into enumeration districts, one for each enumerator. The completed forms were sent to the Commerce Department’s Census Office in Washington, D.C.Federal censuses are usually reliable, depending on the knowledge of the informant and the care of the census enumerator. Information may have been given to a census taker by any member of the family or by a neighbor. Some information may have been incorrect or deliberately falsified. |
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Social Security Death Index, https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10002-8488075/joseph-r-carlson-in-us-social-security-death-index-ssdi
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| | Begun in 1935 by the Social Security Act signed into law by FDR, more than thirty million Americans were registered for the economic security sanctions by 1937. From 1937 to 1940, payments were made in one-lump sums amounts with the first amount being seventeen cents. Following amendments in 1939, the payments turned into monthly benefits and increased. Following further amendments in 1950, cost-of-living increases were awarded to those who were receiving benefits. From 1950 to the present, benefits have increased yearly in response to inflation concerning the costs of living. |
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U.S. Yearbooks, 1890-1979, https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10568-94473125/milford-high-school
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| | Seniors, who generally graduated the 12th grade at the age of 17 or 18, are traditionally given special treatment in these yearbooks and are most likely to have an individual portrait that was taken by a local professional photographer – often in a studio setting. Seniors can have additional information, not provided for the lower-grade members, such as their affiliation in school clubs, sports,and other activities and sometimes short biographical statements or anecdotes about or by the student. When searching a large yearbook collection like this one a thorough researcher should try to find each year in which the subject person is present and pay special attention to find them as a senior if possible.The treatment given to juniors, sophomores, and freshmen—grades 11, 10, and 9 respectively—vary in the size and quality of individual portraits and until the mid-to-late 1940s it is common to only find larger group photographs of these lower classes, most often taken on the front steps of the school. In general, yearbooks published in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are more likely to have individual portraits for each student regardless of his or her grade level.This collection also includes a significant number of yearbooks from middle schools and junior high schools as well as some elementary schools. Additionally, schools which provided comprehensive grade levels from kindergarten up through the 12th grade are included and their yearbooks can provide photographs and information on all students attending. Some college and university yearbooks are also included.Yearbooksalso provide evidence of residence in the town, city, or county where the school was located. Knowing where a person attended school is an important clue in finding other records about themselves andtheir families. An important exception to this notion of a student’s permanent residence exists for yearbooks from boarding schools where students often came from other locations, even far away states, to live at the school during the academic term. In these yearbooks from boarding schools the city and state where the student normally resides is regularly included. |
Peter
Holland
