Comments on: Infographics: What Was Life Like in 1940?

By: Nelson Gaspar

Nelson Gaspar — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:28:00 +0000

These are great illustrations!!!! Do you have the contact person/agency that did these?

Nelson |anvilind808@yahoo.com

By: Ram Babu

Ram Babu — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:13:59 +0000

thanks nick for sharing this very very informative photos , i can feel now , how really the LIFE was in 1940

By: Darlene8705

Darlene8705 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:43:17 +0000

Where are the depictions of the territories Alaska and Hawaii?

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Darlene8705

By: Darlene8705

Darlene8705 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:41:31 +0000

I notice there are representatioins for areas who were not states. Why dosen’t Alaska and Hawaii fall into this category?

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Darlene8705

By: Darlene8705

Darlene8705 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:31:13 +0000

Must say that the individual state art is worth hanging in an art museum. The presentations are great summaries of the states. Thank you, Ancestry.Com, for creating these images.

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Darlene8705

By: Leonard Lorge

Leonard Lorge — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:20:37 +0000

The ‘What was life like in 1940′ site is great, BUT the image of the time machine is very wrong. The front of the device shows screws with HEX heads, and in the 1940′s screws had a slotted head, as HEX screwdrivers were not in use then. Otherwise, really great!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:29:39 +0000

Thanks for the share. I had a great time. family trees

By: History Infographics — what can they tell us about the 1940s? « Finding Aids & Beyond

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:15:23 +0000

[...] of the 1940 U.S. Census back in April, Ancestry.com recently shared new infographics on its blog, “Ancestry’s Infographics: What Was Life Like in 1940?” There is a graphic for the each of the 48 states, plus U.S. territories. (Alaska and Hawaii [...]

By: Nitza Maldonado

Nitza Maldonado — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:34:11 +0000

The 1940 Census for Puerto Rico are great. But I found that some of the records are not listing the correct Head of House. So the families are broken out into two separate census reports. I did report this on one of the census reports, hope it gets fixed soon. Otherwise, thank you for completing this. I was able to find my mother, even though the census taker spelled her name incorrectly, it was a very nice surprise.

By: Connie Cox

Connie Cox — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:48:39 +0000

What a surprise for me. I thought I was in Florida with both of my parents but Mama is back in Atlanta working as a cashier in a department store. I am a year old and my sister is there too. Now I wonder where my aunt Frances Love is and her brother Robert Love Jr. is also missing. Now I am really curious.
I know that my grandfather committed suicide and maybe this is the time so my mother is living with my grandmother. I can’t find the death certificate for him or his father, a Civil War Veteran, Eugene E. Love. The secrets you find on Ancestry make for an interesting story of your own life.