{"id":492,"date":"2012-04-26T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/1940-census-tip-dont-be-fooled\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T21:37:25","slug":"1940-census-tip-dont-be-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/1940-census-tip-dont-be-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"1940 Census Tip \u2013 Don\u2019t Be Fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scenario<\/strong><\/p>\n

Members of the Miserentino family are known to be at 2909 W. Lexington, Chicago, in 1930 and 1951, meaning they\u2019re bound to be enumerated there in the 1940 census.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Search<\/strong><\/p>\n

After locating the correct enumeration district (102-1599), a page-by-page search was conducted looking for the address 2909 W. Lexington.\u00a0 The residence was found on sheet 10A with two unknown families living there.\u00a0 The Miserentino family was not listed.<\/p>\n

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I almost gave up.\u00a0 But I KNEW they had to be there since I had placed them there on either side of 1940.\u00a0 Then in dawned on me\u2026all those pages at the end of the enumeration district that seemed random, which I initially noticed when searching for names in a particular area (as opposed to an address) and further embedded in my brain from indexing these pages.<\/p>\n

So on to the last page I went, working backward, looking again for 2909 W. Lexington (while also scanning the surnames).\u00a0 Bingo, on Sheet 63B, the family is listed at the Lexington\u00a0 address.<\/p>\n

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The Moral<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll notice that at the end of most enumeration districts, there is a hodgepodge of residences that are \u201cout-of-order\u201d by address and\/or household number.\u00a0 In the above example, the order of households is 230, 228, 239.\u00a0 You should also note that on the sheet that is \u201cin-order,\u201d household 239 is missing (235, 236, 237, 238, 240).\u00a0 This is usually the indication you would need to prompt you in looking at the end of the ED for the missing household.\u00a0 Of course, the address you are looking for may be missing entirely from the \u201cin-order\u201d households because only one family (or household) resided there.\u00a0 Even if there aren\u2019t any missing household numbers at or near the address you\u2019re looking for, you should still check the end of the ED just to make sure.<\/p>\n

This observation also means you should pay attention once the census is indexed.\u00a0 When you conduct a search using the index, it will take you to the page that the person is on.\u00a0 In this case, my search (hypothetically) for Joseph Miserentino would have brought me to Sheet 63B, which is in the \u201cout-of-order\u201d households.\u00a0 This means that if you find and \u201cout-of-order\u201d household, you should look back to the place where they would have been enumerated in sequence to see who else may have lived in the same house\/building and who their neighbors were.\u00a0 If there is a household number in these \u201cout-of-order\u201d households, use that as your guide to finding the original sequence.\u00a0 Otherwise, start from the beginning of the ED and look for where the address would have occurred in sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Scenario Members of the Miserentino family are known to be at 2909 W. Lexington, Chicago, in 1930 and 1951, meaning they\u2019re bound to be enumerated there in the 1940 census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","cat-27-id","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-7W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}