It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:
2) Did you make a list of your census targets and try to find them in the 1950 census? How did your plans pay off - did you find everyone, or just some of them?
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Be sure to leave a link with your answers in a comment.
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3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Be sure to leave a link with your answers in a comment.
Here's mine:
I made my list of targets several weeks ago with names, addresses, likely EDs, etc. I found EDs for 20 of them, and need to do at least 8 more.
Of the 16 that I searched for, I found 13 of them where I expected them to be, using the National Archives website. I found the following:
* Parents Frederick and Betty Seaver in San Diego at 2119 30th Street with my brother and me.
* Grandparents Lyle and Emily Carringer, and great-grandmother, Georgianna Auble, in San Diego at 2115 30th Street.
* Linda's parents, Lee and Edna Leland in San Francisco at 1726 47th Avenue with Linda and her brother.
* Linda's grandmother, Edna Schaffner in San Francisco at 46 Rivoli Street with daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.
* Grandmother Alma Seaver in Leominster, Mass. at 91 Merriam Street.
* Uncle/aunt Edward and Janet Seaver in Leominster, Mass. at 104 Walnut Street, with their two children.
* Uncle/aunt Bowers and Ruth Fischer in Leominster, Mass. at 918 Main Street , with their two daughters.
* Aunt/uncle Irving and Marion Braithewaite in Leominster, Mass. at 90 Main Street with their daughter.
* Great aunt Emily Taylor and cousins Marshall and Dorothy Chamberlain in San Diego County at 4601 Terrace Drive.
* 2nd cousins Russell and Helen Richmond in Putnam, Windham County, Conn., with their daughter.
* Cousins Thomas and Helen Richmond in Putnam, Windham, Connecticut.
* Cousins Richard and Lorraine Richmond in Putnam, Connecticut at 96 Bates Avenue.
I did not find my father's sister, Geraldine Seaver in Leominster, Mass. with her mother like I expected to; she may be in Northampton where she was a teacher in about 1950. I did not find my father's sister's family - Walter and Evelyn Wood; the 1950 city directory said they resided at 82 Haverhill Street in Andover, Mass., but the census had someone else at that address. I did not find my cousin, Virginia Soule with her husband Lewis in Salem, New Hampshire - they may be in Massachusetts. For those three I will wait until there is a better index on Ancestry , FamilySearch or MyHeritage to try to find them.
In almost every case, I failed to find my target persons in the name index. In almost every case, I had to browse through the known ED to find them.
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