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For questions about research in the decade from 1940 to 1949. If the question is not only specific to this decade, use the 20th-century tag.

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Searching 1940s census database without names?

I have non-identifying information about my birth mother and birth father, which I was able to use to find my birth mother's family through the 1940s census data (I also had her last name, which obviously … I'd like to generate a list of possible families from the 1940s census and then narrow it down using the other non-identifying information I have (college degrees, marriages, etc.). …
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