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ARPad95

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5. If you're looking for them in the 1910* census and have their residence address at or around 1910,
Mon Aug 28, 2023, 09:29 AM
Aug 2023

then you can use the SteveMorse.org One-Step Census Form site to locate that address in the census and see who lived there. It may be that the census enumerator's handwriting wasn't legible or your family's name was misspelled.

https://stevemorse.org/census/intro.html

But first let me mention that there are two ways of searching the census -- by name and by address. Name searching is the easier one to do, and when it works you get instant gratification. However, due to misspellings and other oddities, name searching doesn't always work. And when it doesn't, you might need to resort to the more difficult address searching. Items 1 through 4 below deal with address searching, and 5 through 6 with name searching.


Let me know if I can help you with your search.

*Or any census year. I'm just using that as the first one after 1900 census.

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