5.2 I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?.5.1 I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?.Let me know if this tool turns out to be helpful to you, or if there are other One Step tools on Steve Morse’s site that you have used successfully. It’s amazing to see patterns emerge that let me track their FAN club over time. When I am researching, I have a spreadsheet file for each individual I am tracking where all of their census data is in one file, along with the listings of the people before and after them this is a good idea even where there is negative evidence. Our spreadsheet sets are a great way to record the data. Drennan and Drennan streets, the household at 216 N. In the case of the Hintons, it was clear that despite enumerating many families on N. Rather than scanning the surnames, I was able to browse the the street names more quickly because they often span several families. Because the database queries are labor intensive the actual census images will take longer than usual to load.Īt this point, I simply browsed the images in the ED.
#1925 NEW YORK CENSUS AD ED ARCHIVE#
You can access the images of the census pages you have specified either through Ancestry (“Display”) or FamilySearch, NARA, or the Internet Archive (“Free Display”). By using this combined tool, we have actually cut out several steps.Īn image of the results page is below. 2 This may seem like an extraneous click, but the ED Finder we are using is a combination of several individual One Step tools, and the link leads to the “Viewing Census Images for the Census in One Step” tool. These links take you to a reults page where you can access the actual census pages. The links to the enumerations districts in the lower left corner on the main results page are what we are looking for. One Step ED Descriptions on One Step Webpages If you fail to choose the proper year, the form will return results for the default year (1940). There is a dropdown menu at the very top of the page in the title that is critical to getting the correct information. The ED finder tool is located at and the very first step is easy to miss: choose the correct census year. The Enumeration District Finder Tool Enter the Year Below are the steps I took to determine that Victorine’s household was skipped by the enumerator in 1930. The process is straightforward and the more information you have, the better your results will be. This powerful tool makes it painless to find an enumeration district even better, it links directly to the census images online. Using Steve Morse’s One-Step Webpages, I was able to look up the enumeration district for their street and view the census pages. City Directories, 1822-1995,” database with images, Ancestry ( : accessed 1 June 2017), entry for Victorine Hinton, Houston, Texas, 1929 citing Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co., publishers, Houston (Texas) City Directory: 1929-1930… (Houston: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Company, 1930), entry for Hinton, Virgil F (Victorine), 968
Drennan Street in Houston in 1929, but they were nowhere to be found in the 1930 census when searching by name, even trying multiple websites in case it was an indexing issue. I knew that she and her husband were living on N. Recently, I was looking for the 1930 census entry for my 2x great grandmother, Victorine (Dupuy) Hinton. Why might you want to do this if you can simply search by name? For 1880-1940, there is a tool that can be used to enter an address – either a street name or an exact house number – and find the census images for that address. federal census population schedule, but not as many know that they can look for people in the census by address. Most genealogists are very familiar with searching Ancestry or FamilySearch for individuals in the U.S.
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