{"id":15801,"date":"2012-04-02T23:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2012-04-03T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T07:10:53","slug":"paul-and-zenaide-charron-in-the-1940-united-states-federal-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15801","title":{"rendered":"Paul and Zenaide Charron in the 1940 United States Federal Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With today&#8217;s release of the 1940 United States Federal Census, I couldn&#8217;t resist visiting Ancestry.com to see if I could find anyone in my family tree .\u00a0 I almost succeeded .\u00a0 Instead of my own relatives, I found the parents of my Godmother, Alice Charron Danko .\u00a0 Alice&#8217;s parents were Paul Charron and Zenaide Patenaude Charron who lived at 2 Broadway in Cohoes, Albany Co., New York for most of their lives .\u00a0 Sure enough, that&#8217;s where they were in 1940 .\u00a0 To find the correct enumeration district (ED), I entered the 1930 ED (1-118) on <a title=\"Steve Morse's One-Step Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemorse.org\">Steve Morse&#8217;s One-Step Website<\/a> and found that the enumeration district in 1940 was 1-32.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15802\" title=\"The 1940 US Federal Census Record for Paul and Zenaide Charron (Left)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Left.jpg\" alt=\"The 1940 US Federal Census Record for Paul and Zenaide Charron (Left)\" width=\"630\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Left.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Left-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Left-1024x455.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for Paul and Zenaide Charron (Left)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15803\" title=\"The 1940 US Federal Census Record for Paul and Zenaide Charron (Right)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Right.jpg\" alt=\"The 1940 US Federal Census Record for Paul and Zenaide Charron (Right)\" width=\"603\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Right.jpg 1435w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Right-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940-Right-1024x475.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for Paul and Zenaide Charron (Right)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: 1940 U.S. Census, Albany County, New York, population schedule, Cohoes City, enumeration district (ED) 1\u00e2\u20ac\u201832, sheet 14A, household 308, Paul Charron; digital image, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> :accessed 02 April 2012); citing National Archives microfilm publication T627 roll 02457.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 US Federal Census Record for <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Charron-Paul-1940.pdf\">Paul and Zenaide Charron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Charrons lived at 2\u00c2\u00a0Broadway, Cohoes, Albany Co., New York, USA on 01 April 1940, they were household 308 in order of visitation, they owned their house which was worth $2000, lived in the same house on 01 April 1935, and they did not live on a farm<\/li>\n<li>Paul Charron was head of household,\u00a0was a white male, 65 years old, married,\u00a0was not attending school, completed 7 years of education, was born\u00c2\u00a0in New York,\u00a0worked 40 hours\u00c2\u00a0during the week of March 24-30, was a machinist at Cohoes Machine working on his own account, worked 50 weeks in 1939, and he earned $50 or more from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Zenaide Charron was Paul Charron&#8217;s wife, was a white female, 65 years old, married, was not attending school, completed 7 years of education, was born in French Canada, was naturalized, was not working the week of March 24-30, was not doing public emergency work, was not seeking work, did not have a job or business, and was doing housework, was a housewife, worked 0 weeks in 1939, earned $0, and did not earn more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. 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