saving 1940 census pages

[tru]

I finally managed to save my grandparents 1940 census page. If you do a right click, then view image in firefox, then right click save image as, it works but you have to change the extension from htm to jpg.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. I've been downloading and saving the images

are you getting good resolution?

[tru]

3. yes

Yes, the resolution is comparable to the other censuses (I saved those from from Ancestry.)

When I tried to do a plain download using the button on the archives.gov site, which is where I'm looking, it hung and nearly froze my pc. But the method I described works quickly.

[Dem2theMax]

2. Oh for the days when it was as easy as 'click on the save button.'

Why do they always try to 'improve' things?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Will I have a hard time finding my grandparents in Pittsburgh? I have no idea the name of the

street where they lived.

[tru]

5. can you

find the street from the 1930 census? Any other way of finding their street - draft card, one of their kids' birth or marriage certificates, etc.? I think ancestry has city directories on line, which are easier to read.

It was not hard finding my grandfather's house, but I knew his address. I had to page through 30 of so sheets to find the one with his street, and had a brief detour when I only found the other side of the street first.

I have looked through an entire city to find a relative. Not sure how many pages there are for Pittsburgh in 1940, maybe a lot.

[madinmaryland]

6. Do you know where there were in 1930. There is a way to determine the enumeration from 1930 to 1940

That would at least reduce where you need to search in Pittsburgh.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Not a clue unless a library in Pittsburgh has a directory from that year.

I found my grandparents in Dubois via a Directory circa 1926 in that local library.

[madinmaryland]

8. Have you checked the 1930 Census for either DuBois or Pittsburgh?

BTW, my folks were from near the DuBois area. There was a lot of migration from that area to Erie, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland in the late 30's and early 40's. My Dad's family moved to Erie in the early 40's.

Fortunately, in the next 2-4 months, we should have the census indexed, so that you can search by name!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Cool about your family coming from Clearfield County.

Yeah, I have the 1930 Census already on my computer, thanks. My grandfather lost his business and moved to be with his sisters in Pittsburgh. I think I was really excited to see our family listed like a census in the Dubois directories. They even listed the kids and the occupation of the head of household.

[madinmaryland]

10. We were mostly in Jefferson County, but had relatives in Armstrong, Clarion and Clearfield County.

My Dad had several cousins that lived in and around DuBois.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Wasn't Jimmy Stewart's family from Jefferson County?

I seem to remember it was Independence.

[madinmaryland]

12. He was from Indiana, PA, in Indiana County, which is the county south of Jefferson and

east of Armstrong. My folks have been to the Jimmy Stewart museum in Indiana.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. My father doesn't have the same accent as Jimmy Stewart.

When we were children, he'd bring us back to his hometown and show us places where he grew up. I returned 16 years ago with a camera. I looked up all the addresses in the Dubois' directory (where the family lived) and took pictures of the homes. A lot of the town is essentially intact since last century.