1930 US Census free during August

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:42 am

Footnote offers the 1930 Census free during August. http://go.footnote.com/1930census/

You have to register, however don’t rush in. The site is grossly overloaded at the moment with all sorts of associated problems. Wait until the US is asleep or maybe later in the month.

I saw it here http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_ge ... ugust.html

Hope it works for you eventually,
Alan

marypryde · Post by **marypryde** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:26 am

Thanks, Alan!

I just tried it and already found one relevant household, but you are correct that they are overloaded. Subsequent searches came up "Oops, sorry, please try later." It's almost midnight here and while the USA sleeps, so do I. Maybe I'll do better at 6:00 a.m.

Best regards, Mary Ellen

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:30 pm

Well I've made good use of this during our too often rainy summer days

But I'm really stuck on this one.
I have a Pearl Elizabeth Mckinley born c 1883 Maryland to William and Ann (Nancy Jane Pugh) Mckinley who according to the IGI (extraction not submission) married one Charles Thuringer in Manhattan NY in January 1908. He was born in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin again according to the IGI.
So why can't I find them both in 1930 on Footnote, nor even searching on ancestry (though I don't have full access)?

Any ideas anybody? Surely I'm not so unlucky that they've both died by 1930!

Best wishes,
Meg

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:07 am

Hello Meg,

Try THWINGER and is that mum there as well?

Census - US Federal 1930
Wisconsin » DANE » MADISON CITY, WARD 10 » 13-90 » Sheet 10B

Thwinger, Pearl E (b: 1885*)
Household:
Thwinger, Charles (b: 1872*)
Thwinger, Dorothy (b: 1909*)
McKinley, Anna J (b: 1853*)

Hope that’s them,
Alan

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:27 am

Hello Alan,

What a star you are

.
Thank you. Yes that is them.
I tried everything I could think of but didn't think of a possible lisp!

Thanks again.
Best wishes,
Meg

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:17 pm

Alan,

Here's another one for you!
Same family - Gabriel E Mckinley born Nov 1880 in Lonaconing Maryland.
I can't find him anywhere in 1930.
What a family this is; it stretches from New York to West Virginia to Wisconsin and across to California

As for the three daughters last seen in Maryland in 1880..........

Best wishes,
Meg

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:28 am

Sorry Meg,

I tried my very best to find him in 1930 but didn’t have any luck at all. The other one I think I found by searching for *inger and then input the first name and then the initial. There were about 50 results and Thwinger stood out among those.

All the best,
Alan

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:08 pm

Thanks again, Alan.
At least it's confirmed it's not just me.

Best wishes,
Meg

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:16 pm

Meg,

I found Gabriel on the 1900 census and then nothing so I googled him. Here's a website for the 1st Maryland Volunteers (I think) for the Spanish American War. There is a Gabriel E. McKinley on the list.

http://www.spanamwar.com/1stmarylandroster.htm

Do you know anything about Gabriel between 1900 and 1930?

His brother Arthur Tansy is in the military and shows on most of the census records. Looks like brother Virgil moves in with his uncle and family in West Virginia and stays there.

Carol

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:00 pm

Hello Carol,

Yes I did have that about the two of them in the 1st Maryland Volunteer Infantry and Arthur is listed as in the army on the 1900 census. Virgil died unmarried 23 April 1940 in West Virginia, Arthur in California but I have absolutely nothing on Gabriel after 1900! Incidentally he is down as a barman on that census

There are 2 other daughters from William Mckinley's first marriage too:
Margaret born c1871 and Isabella born Aug 1874 both in Lonaconing Maryland.
Not forgetting his first wife's daughter Marion Paterson Dobbie (born Edinburgh Jan 1864)........
I have found those impossible to track

Thanks for your help, Carol.

Best wishes,
Meg