Great great uncle Chester married a woman from West Virginia and moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, where I found him in the 1930 U.S. Federal Census.
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| 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Union City, Monongalia, West Virginia; Roll: 2548; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 27; Record for Chester A. Hunter |
I can't wait to see if he was an enumerator in the 1940 US Census! And 72 years later, his great great niece (me) is a 1940 US Census Ambassador!
Following is a video created by the US Census Bureau to train enumerators on the correct procedures for filling out the 1940 US Census. About two minutes in, you can see how an enumerator might have interviewed a resident to obtain information about the households in his Enumeration District.
Elizabeth - This is a great find. I hope you find Percy as an enumerator in 1940 also!
ReplyDeleteDenise, thanks for reading and commenting. I do have to find his enumeration district in West Virginia unless I want to wait for the index.
ReplyDeleteHow cool, Elizabeth! Funny, I was just thinking the other day while looking at a census record, "wouldn't it be funny if one of my relatives was actually a census enumerator?" And you have one that was!
ReplyDeleteKaren - exactly my feeling as I was looking at this census record. When I realized that his occupation was enumerator working for the census, and I looked up and there was his name at the top, it was one of those "cool!" moments in my research. Thanks for reading and commenting.
ReplyDeleteSo one of your ancestors enumerated himself also! His handwriting was very legible and made it so easy for researchers and descendants in the future to read what he wrote.
ReplyDeleteEven though it was years ago that I found this, I still remember the excitement when I saw his name at the bottom as enumerator. And he wasn't a census enumerator in 1940; he was a farmer.
DeleteThanks for reading and commenting.