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many 1940 US Census records missing citations?

S. L. Casteel
S. L. Casteel ✭
April 30, 2022 edited May 1, 2022 in Search

In the past week or so I'm finding a lot of 1940 US census records have nothing under "Cite this Record", and clicking the "Copy Citation" button doesn't do anything. This is true both on the main search page and when I go to an individual person's record. Is this a known issue that the techs are working on?


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  • CDBurk
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    April 30, 2022 edited April 30, 2022 Answer ✓

    @S. L. Casteel

    A problem with the 1940 Census has been reported because many of the names connected to the records are suddenly appearing as "Unknown". This may have affected the citation as well.

    When you want to be sure a problem has been reported, please always try to provide the URL as an example. It is important that we have details so that problems that may be system errors can be replicated by those who need to make corrections. I tried to find some of these 1940 Census records and while I was able to verify the "unknown" issue that has been reported, I could not find any records where the citation was available if the name on the record was listed as "unknown" so I will report the issue.

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    As you can see, the dropdown is still there to reveal document information, but there is no citation and clicking "copy citation" sends nothing to the clipboard to paste anywhere. Thanks for mentioning this issue.

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  • Mike357
    Mike357 mod
    May 24, 2022 Answer ✓

    @S. L. Casteel and @Chere Lee; it appears that the 1940 U. S. Census problem that you describe, in which citations are missing, has been fixed; however, before you and I will see the fix, the entire 1940 census will need to be refreshed.

    Before the 1940 U. S. census can be refreshed, some of the work relating to ingesting the 1950 U. S. census will need to be completed. So, it looks like we'll need to be patient a little longer.

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  • Chere Lee
    Chere Lee ✭
    May 24, 2022

    There is no citation for URL https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYRC-M9D

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