It is no longer essential to provide exact addresses from seven decades ago to look for a New York connection. With names, free searches of the 1940 U.S. census first made public in April will unlock personal information about residents of New York - then the largest U.S. state and an immigrant hub from which people moved all over the country.Ĭensus experts say the New York data is of national interest because tens of millions of Americans have roots in this gateway to the United States through Ellis Island, and many can now dig for more personal information. "That's the exciting aspect about this - the ability to search the lifetime of our mothers and fathers," said Debra Braverman, a New York-based independent forensic genealogist with clients seeking information for trust funds and estates. When the census was first released, "if you didn't know exactly where someone lived in 1940, you couldn't find them," Braverman said. Indexing by name is crucial to cracking the until-now closed book of that year's census, which by law could not be released for 72 years and is therefore the most recently available one. The New York State Library provides an excellent overview of the questions asked on each New York State census from 1825 to 1925.Some of the work of transcribing handwritten census records into a computerized index was done by workers in an office outside the southern city of Dongguan with "very strong character recognition abilities," said Todd Jensen, who heads the document preservation service at, a Provo, Utah-based family history company that's releasing the online New York census for 1940 using their new name index. Used with the federal census records it is possible to see a family unit about every five years in some towns from 1820 through 1930. They have a 105-year span of population schedules that are available to researchers.
New York has a wonderful collection of state census records.
For example, Home Edition for use by individual subscribers Family History Library Edition for patrons of that library and Library Edition for patrons of other libraries with a subscription. If you are having a hard time finding your ancestors, or simply do not want to spend the time to build your family tree, you can hire a genealogist to build your entire family tree. New York (Manhattan) - Putnam Ī comes in several different online editions, each having it own unique characteristics and user lists. This NY Census collection is intended to give a beginning genealogist an idea of the information contained in these records. This list marks the availability of such censuses.Ĭensus Records done by the State of New York Please refer to the counties for additional linked information. New York State Library State Census Records.The responses and years of coverage may give additional information on the family. State census records may have columns that were different or more unusual than those found on federal censuses. New York took some censuses in the years between the federal censuses.
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