Extracting 1940 & 1950 U.S. Census into Excel Using Ancestry.com

Today we're going to talk about how to extract US Census information from the 1940 and the 1950 census into Excel spreadsheets so that you can filter them quickly by surname to help find more family members.

In previous episodes, I had been using this little trick I created where you can copy and paste U.S. Census transcriptions out of Ancestry or FamilySearch and put it into Excel so you can use the filters in order to find other family members. Some of the comments came back saying that they could not do this trick on the 1940 and the 1950 census. Yes you can. I'm going to show you how to do that right now.

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TIMING
0:00 Intro
0:53 Trouble extracting from these censuses
2:28 Demonstration with 1940 Census into Excel
5:36 Why do this?
8:33 Building one from scratch
10:22 Headers for spreadsheet
12:38 Paste special as text for extracted data
13:03 Formatting and filters for headers
15:33 Make sure to note information at top
16:10 Adding a hyperlink
17:40 Instructions review
20:28 Keep in mind people began to spread out

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