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Free Access Alert – 1930 Census on Ancestry.com

I like free stuff, and I am sure that many of you do too. From time to time, genealogy giant Ancestry.com invites non – members to access specific record collections for free for limited periods of time. The site also has many helpful resources and learning tools that are free, but the records are what genealogists need for their research and that is why many genealogy researchers have memberships to Ancestry.com.

This weekend, those of us who do not have memberships to Ancestry.com can access the 1930 Census for free from February 16 until midnight on February 20. Census records often contain a wealth of information, and many American families have ancestors that were located in the United States at the time that the 1930 Census was taken.

Census data can vary depending upon which year’s Census you are looking at. In case you are wondering what you can find in the 1930 Census, it includes the names of every person in each household and their relationship to each other, marriage details including dates and locations, military service information, occupational information, and even citizenship information. If you find one of your ancestors on there, chances are that there will be other ancestors in the same household such as their parents, children, or siblings. This is one record source with the potential to provide a lot of valuable details within a very short period of time. This makes it an especially important find for beginning genealogists who would like to populate the branches of their family tree as quickly and as efficiently as they can.

As always, I must mention that Ancestry.com has given me no compensation or anything else of value in exchange for mentioning their products and services here. As someone who appreciates things that can be had for free, I felt that it was important to mention this opportunity for genealogy researchers to search this important record collection for free. Perhaps the 1930 Census holds some of the clues that will take your research to the next level.

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