{"id":34181,"date":"2026-06-02T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=34181"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:26:31","slug":"1940-us-census-instructions-for-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/1940-us-census-instructions-for-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"1940 US Census Instructions for Informant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1940-census-instructions-informant-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1940-census-instructions-informant-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1940-census-instructions-informant-1.jpg 536w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1940-census-instructions-informant-1-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1940 US census indicates who in the household provided the information by placing an &#8220;x&#8221; within a circle next to that person&#8217;s name. If a household member did not provide the information, there was to be a notation in the left hand margin indicating who provided the information. This is the only US census that provided specific informant information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1940 US census indicates who in the household provided the information by placing an &#8220;x&#8221; within a circle next to that person&#8217;s name. If a household member did not provide the information, there was to be a notation in the left hand margin indicating who provided the information. This is the only US census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}