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So.. a few notes here.. I'm trying to find my Great Grandfather and I know where he lived in 1950. Voter registration and his DC back up that in 1950, he lived at 114 Grand Ave in Santa Monica, CA.
So.. I search for California and Santa Monica.. No name. On the first result, I clicked on the ED maps link, and I can see that Grand Ave was Enumeration District 99
Then, I find ED 99 for Santa Monica, click population schedule and it's 74 pages. Had to slide through them, and page 39 is Grand Ave, and has 114 on it.
I find that there were 6 apartments there.
They IDed people at apts 1, 4, 5 and 6.. And apartment 2 is apartment 1 joined.. Apartment 3 had noone home.
But, it's on page 86(Page 68 in the scan), lines 19 and 20
But, that's not him either.. Only guess, he didn't live there in April. So.. I lost.. but I learned a lot on the search. Passing it along in case it helps.
I slogged through it last night. I expect a lot of complaints as people get into it. Other finding aids might develop but I had to search by ED number and street addresses to find most of the people I wanted to see and some are not found even when using the most outlandish spelling.
There are always some problems with spelling but the computer reading effort here really sucks and makes it worse. They had decades to figure this out.
Found myself and my mother with her mother and her mother's father in less than five minutes at Ancestry.com. I knew where they lived, and they were about seven pages into the enumeration district. My dad was not listed. He was away at school learning to be a linotype operator. Found him with the National Archives search as a lodger.
Somebody got some records out of order. My grandparents are there, but the kids including my dad were missing until I found them a few pages later. I do have a compliment for the census taker. He/she had great handwriting. I could read everything. I wasn't around in 1950, but I knew some of these people or have heard of them. It was a small community.
Somebody got some records out of order. My grandparents are there, but the kids including my dad were missing until I found them a few pages later. I do have a compliment for the census taker. He/she had great handwriting. I could read everything. I wasn't around in 1950, but I knew some of these people or have heard of them. It was a small community.
The kids had to have been in a household. How old were they? Were they with relatives?
I found my Mom and her family. That was pretty easy as they lived in the middle of nowhere. I also found my Dad's family because I am familiar with the streets where he lived and quickly found the enumeration area. I haven't found my Dad, as he was in Austin at the time, and I have no idea where he lived. I may have to look at the Austin City Directory for that.
How are people figuring out the enumeration district numbers without going through several pages when looking for common names in big cities (since there is no free name index available at this time)?
How are people figuring out the enumeration district numbers without going through several pages when looking for common names in big cities (since there is no free name index available at this time)?
I look at the descriptions of the enumeration districts, which so far have included streets or roads. It helps that I had some idea where the people I was looking for lived, and was not looking in somewhere like LA or NYC.
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