{"id":804,"date":"2012-04-03T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2012-04-03T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:38:32","slug":"1940-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"1940 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have heard they put the 1940 census online.  I decided to see if I could find my parents and grandparents.  <a href=\"http:\/\/1940census.archives.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the URL<\/a> if you want to search it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one page from Cuba, New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02459-00583-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02459-00583-sm-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"This is from NY 2-26 from Allegheny County\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02459-00583-sm-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02459-00583-sm-1024x771.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t figure out which one would have Rawson on it.  I downloaded the one for New Hudson and saw some familiar names like Luce and even a Lafferty (I think it was Jasper) and some Taylors and other names I&#8217;ve heard in the past but no Leo and Evelyn.  Maybe someone else will be luckier than me.<\/p>\n<p>Edit:  I figured out it was in Lyndon and found it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02505-00694-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02505-00694-sm-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Laffertys in Rawson\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02505-00694-sm-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/m-t0627-02505-00694-sm-1024x772.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have heard they put the 1940 census online. I decided to see if I could find my parents and grandparents. Here&#8217;s the URL if you want to search it. Here&#8217;s one page from Cuba, New York. I couldn&#8217;t figure out which one would have Rawson on it. I downloaded the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}