Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Where Were Your Ancestors 80 Years Ago?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

 

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment today:
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) Determine where your ancestral families were on 1 April 1940 - 80 years ago when the U.S. census was taken.

2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist?

3) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.

Here's mine:

1.   My father, William J. Hork, was living with his mother, Anne Hork, and three older sisters, Lorene, Virginia, and June, in San Bernardino County, California. She was renting, paying $20 per month.[1] His father, William C. Hork, lived in the next town away.[2]

2.   My mother, Lela Nell Johnston, was living with her parents, Tom J. & Pansy (Lancaster) Johnston, and her grandparents, Warren G. & Lela Ann (Loveless) Lancaster, in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas.[3]

3.   Tom Johnston’s father, Thomas Newton Johnston and wife, Zilpha, were living at 188 N. McCart in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas. His youngest son, Halwyn, who was 24, lived with him.[4]

4.   Pansy’s grandparents, William Carl and Martha Jane “Doll” (Coor) Lancaster, were living on W. Frey in Stephenville, Texas. They paid $12 in rent.[5]

I had 10 direct ancestors alive in 1940: parents, grandparents, 1 great-grandparents, and 1 set of g-g-grandparents.

My husband’s family:

1.   His father, George J. Gorrell, was living with his parents, Joseph Norman and Matilda Pearl (Davey) Gorrell and his three sisters, Bertha, Ada, and Claire in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri.[6]

2.   His mother, Thelma Marie Nilsen, was living with her father, Arthur Nilsen, and siblings, Arnold, Raymond, Edna, and Bernice, in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. They lived at 335 Leon St and paid $30 in rent.[7]

3.   Thelma’s maternal grandmother, Mathilda Lovisa (Ericksson-Holm) Lundquist lived in Hilmar, Merced County, California. She and her son, David, were missed in the census.

My husband had 6 ancestors alive in 1940: parents, 3 grandparents, and 1 great-grandparent.

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[1] 1940 U.S. census, San Bernardino Co, California, Cucamonga, ED 36-36, sheet sht 65a, p. 472, household 150, Anna M Hork, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

[2] 1940 U.S. census, San Bernardino Co, California, Ontario, ED 36-63, sht 64A, p 903, William C. Hork, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

[3] 1940 U.S. census, Erath Co, Texas, pop sched., Stephenville, ward 2, enumeration district (ED) 72-7, 4A, household 75, Warren Lancaster; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

[4] 1940 U.S. census, Erath Co, Texas, pop sched., Stephenville, ED 72-34, 8a, p. 32 (stamped), household 188, Tom N Johnston; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

[5] 1940 U.S. census, Erath Co, Texas, pop sched., Stephenville, ED 72-3a, sht 9b, household 228, William C Lancaster; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

[6] 1940 U.S. census, Jasper Co, Missouri, Webb City, ED 49-33, sht 11a, p 802, line 12, George J Gorrell, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

[7] 1940 U.S. census, Stanislaus Co, California, Modesto, ED 50-24, sht 3a, p. 376, family 52, Arthur Nilsen, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).

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