How to find living people in census years?

[Cormac]

I would like to find everyone living in certain years like a census year. For example, I would like to find everyone that would have been living in 1940 and hopefully that would've been recorded in the census. I am not having a lot of success.

[Bob White]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

People side of find.... Birth Date Before 1949 AND Death Date After 1940 should give you the desire result. Worked for me.

[Cormac]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

People side of find.... Birth Date Before 1949 AND Death Date After 1940 should give you the desire result. Worked for me.

Thanks, Bob. But it didn't work. It didn't find my parents and an uncle all born in 1937. Also an aunt born in 1932. All four are still alive. It didn't catch anyone born before 1940 and still alive.

[theKiwi]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

Try

Birth Date [before] 1941

AND

Death Date [after] 1940

(I have no idea what 1949 might have to do with this).

Roger

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

Thanks, Bob. But it didn't work. It didn't find my parents and an uncle all born in 1937. Also an aunt born in 1932. All four are still alive. It didn't catch anyone born before 1940 and still alive.

Search for
Death date is after 1 April 1940 <--- that's the date of the 1940 census
OR
Death date is "" <-- that is, leave the comparison blank

Unmark Everybody in Family File, then Mark Everybody in List

Search for
Birth date is before 1 April 1940
AND
Birth date is after 1 April 1840 <--- to exclude those who would be more than 100 years old on the census date if you have no death date for them: you can adjust this if you want to include more or fewer.
AND
Person marked yes

Not perfect (it will miss those with missing birthdates) but perhaps useful.

[Bob White]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

..(I have no idea what 1949 might have to do with this)....

Just a typo! I meant 1939.

[Cormac]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

Just a typo! I meant 1939.

It stil didn't work. Thanks anyway, Bob.

[Cormac]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

Search for
Death date is after 1 April 1940 <--- that's the date of the 1940 census
OR
Death date is "" <-- that is, leave the comparison blank

Unmark Everybody in Family File, then Mark Everybody in List

Search for
Birth date is before 1 April 1940
AND
Birth date is after 1 April 1840 <--- to exclude those who would be more than 100 years old on the census date if you have no death date for them: you can adjust this if you want to include more or fewer.
AND
Person marked yes

Not perfect (it will miss those with missing birthdates) but perhaps useful.

Dennis,

Thanks for trying, but no cigar for you tonight. The first approach gave me 590 out of 640 people (in my DB). The second approach gave me people that died before 1940. BUT!!! You do get points for getting my parents, aunt and uncle and several others born in the 1930s.

Thanks,

Jeff

[theKiwi]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

Dennis,

Thanks for trying, but no cigar for you tonight. The first approach gave me 590 out of 640 people (in my DB). The second approach gave me people that died before 1940. BUT!!! You do get points for getting my parents, aunt and uncle and several others born in the 1930s.

This is not a "first approach" and "second approach" procedure

You need to do the first search, mark the cards that are found and THEN do the second search. The resulting list at the end of BOTH searches will be all those you're looking for.

If it's not, then you're not doing the searches correctly.

Roger

[Cormac]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

This is not a "first approach" and "second approach" procedure

You need to do the first search, mark the cards that are found and THEN do the second search. The resulting list at the end of BOTH searches will be all those you're looking for.

If it's not, then you're not doing the searches correctly.

Roger

Roger,

Well, that wasn't the way that I understood it. I did not see anything that said do it the way that you said.

Jeff

[kyuck]

Re: How to find living people in census years?

Roger,

Well, that wasn't the way that I understood it... Jeff

Well, that's the way I understood it Roger, Thanks for your continuous support.
Kevan