10 Search Tips for Census Success

We all have ancestors we would swear were somehow skipped or overlooked by the census taker. It's more than likely that some of them were. More often, however, it's an indexing error that has us running in circles. When online census indexes leave you pulling out your hair in frustration, try these census search tips for locating your 'misplaced' ancestor. Or if you are interested in locating ancestors in the 1940 census, check out these steps for locating someone in the 1940 census for navigating around the lack of a name index.