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In bigger cities, it helps if you can determine what ED (Enumeration District) folks lived at. If you have street address, or at least street name, finding the ED # helps narrow down the NARA search.
You can start here to find an ED https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html
It takes a couple steps, but I was able to find both sets of grandparents, and myself, age 5, with mother & step-father .
Maternal GP's was a bit tricky as last name is mis-transcribed in NARA's OCR file. Fairly obvious error when looking at actual image.
Still can't find my bio father and a couple Uncles. Did find one G-GP who was still living in 1950. FWIW, I'm 77
FWIW.. If anyone is searching through Santa Monica and/or the LA area in the census and comes across a Donald Bruce Curtiss.. Probably living with his wife Luella Curtiss (Yes, 2 s's) point the page out to me.
I found my great-great grandfather and his second wife in Orange.. Albert Orville Curtiss and Grace Tilton Curtiss
But no luck finding my great grandfather and his second wife.
In bigger cities, it helps if you can determine what ED (Enumeration District) folks lived at. If you have street address, or at least street name, finding the ED # helps narrow down the NARA search.
Teething troubles with the transcription check on familysearch.org - They now allow you to click on a link for "Not a Person" for 'vacant' or 'not at home' etc. But it was skipping several names on the page. I notice it did that before and I thought maybe it had those already transcribed. Now am not so sure. They really need to work on this. Oh, well. It will get done. Hopefully correctly and thoroughly.
I was looking in Corpus Christi Texas, and there appear to be a bunch of missing enumeration districts 258-xxx. Anyone run across that yet? I got the numbers off of the Ancestry finder map.
I was looking at one record and came across a daughter in law identified as the dreaded 'Mrs. Husband's first name, Last name'. My sympathies to her descendants.
This is what I was able to do also. Since I knew where my grandparents lived, I looked for the street name or close by streets in the Enum District. I was easily able to find them this way PLUS some relatives and other people that I knew as a child to the present from the same city.
Is there a way to look up the first name, last name of a person to get the enum district?
I was looking in Corpus Christi Texas, and there appear to be a bunch of missing enumeration districts 258-xxx. Anyone run across that yet? I got the numbers off of the Ancestry finder map.
I am also looking in Corpus Christi, but have not noticed that. Since CC was a relatively smaller city back then, I was able to quickly find my relatives since I already knew their addresses. I'm still trying to look for an uncle (my grandmother's brother), but don't know the exact street that he lived on, just an area. Let me know if I can help you.
Just for fun, I tried to look in the old West Hollywood, Calif neighborhood that I used to live in since I always fantasized that famous starlets/stars lived in my building. Well, it wasn't true! I did find a good assortment of salespeople, a middle class collection. It is all too different now.
I had an address in Corpus, which was how I found the enumeration district on the finder map. I'm sure it will resolve at some point.
I also noticed that the block my wife's grandparents lived on in Houston is missing from the listing of people. The block to the North and the block to the South are there, as are the ones to the East and West, but not their block
Teething troubles with the transcription check on familysearch.org - They now allow you to click on a link for "Not a Person" for 'vacant' or 'not at home' etc. But it was skipping several names on the page. I notice it did that before and I thought maybe it had those already transcribed. Now am not so sure. They really need to work on this. Oh, well. It will get done. Hopefully correctly and thoroughly.
Seems to be working better. For now anyways.
ETA: I just found a relative while transcribing for the first time ever, including 2012. Enumeration district noted!
I finally found my Great Grandfather in the 1950 Census out in California.
ED 66-860 on page 15(Sheet 55 with his wife on page 56)
He was, luckily, one of the 'additional info' people. Hospital attendant at the VA hospital.. Made $2280 in 1949..
The ED is defined as
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Los Angeles city - That part of Assembly District 60 (Tract 143-part) Bounded by Mississippi Ave.; Purdue Ave.; Pico Ave.; Federal Ave.; This Enumeration District consists of the following blocks: 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 83, 84
The sheets there are for the "Hotel, Large Rooming House, Institution, Military Installation, etc"
It looks like it reads the name of the place as O.P. Auto and type as Court
Looks like this is a naval base, Roosevelt?
But, can anyone translate exactly where/what this is?
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They really need to work on this. Oh, well. It will get done. Hopefully correctly and thoroughly.
Enumeration district noted!
