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The 1930 Federal Population Census by the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) will be released on 01 Apr 2002. By law, census
records are restricted for seventy-two years for privacy reasons, but
the wait is almost over. Since the census day in 1930 was 01 April, that
is the day that two thousand, six hundred and sixty-seven microfilmed
rolls of population schedules will be released for public access at
the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and thirteen regional branches,
this year.

Please be aware that most of the earlier census records to used the Soundex
finding aid. This personal name indexing tool makes it relatively easy
for us to find our ancestors out of the millions of names in a given
census. That is not the case in the 1930 census, with the exception of
twelve southern states, which will still have Soundex for the 1930 census.
Indexes using the Soundex exist for the states of Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky (part), Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia (part).
Below is the list of questions that were asked on the 1930 Federal Census:
QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE 1930 CENSUS
The 1930 Federal Census form called for:

01. Street, avenue, road, house number,
02. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation,
03. Number of family in order of visitation;
04. Name of each person whose place of abode on 01 Apr 1930 was in this family
05. Relationship of this person to the head of the family
06. Home owned or rented, value of home, if owned or monthly rental, if rented
07. Radio set
08. Does this family live on a farm
09. Sex, color or race
10. Age at last birthday
11. Marital condition
12. Age at first marriage; 13. Attended school or college at any time since 1 September 1929
14. Whether able to read or write
15. Place of birth-person, place of birth-father, place of birth-mother
16. Language spoken in home before coming to the United States
17. Year of immigration into the United States
18. Naturalization
19. Whether able to speak English
20. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done
21. Industry of business, class of worker
22. Whether actually at work yesterday, if not, line on unemployment schedule
23. Whether a veteran of U.S. military or naval force--yes or no, what war or expedition
24. Number of farm schedule (Note: The farm schedules have not survived).

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