How do I lookup people in the census by their address?
How do I lookup people in the census by their address?
Hi Treker,
My group has provided a website at https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html. At the top the default is 1950 but you can change that. For 1950, we have over 2400 urban areas where you can go from an address (actually the street names on the block than encloses the address) to an Enumeration District to the first image of that ED. Other census years have fewer urban areas with complete street indexes but there are other geographical tools for narrowing your search. My YouTube channel, "JDW Talks" has many videos on how to use our utility.
Thank you for posting your question on History Hub!
In addition to the helpful information already provided, we searched the National Archives Catalog and located the Enumeration District and Related Maps, 1880 - 1990 in the Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29) arranged by census year, state, and county which may help narrow your search. Some of these records, mostly from the 1940 and 1950 censuses, have been digitized and are available for review in the Catalog. For more information about the non-digitized records, please contact the National Archives at College Park - Cartographic (RRSC) at carto@nara.gov.
Please note however that address information does not always appear in every Federal census, particularly for rural areas. For example in the 1880 census house numbers and street names typically only appear for residences in urban areas, the dwelling numbers in rural areas usually indicate only the order in which the enumerator visited those households. You may wish to review NARA’s webpages About Census Records and Search Census Records Online and Other Resources, as well as the 1950 Census Blog Series on History Hub, for more information about the evolution of the Federal census and the data captured by it.
If the address you are seeking is not found in the census you may wish to consult State Archives and Historical Societies in the area of interest regarding state and local census records. The local library may hold such records as city directories that might be useful as well. Another potential resource is Land Records, particularly those held by the county land recorder where the property is located. Please see the History Hub blog post titled Land Records: Researching the History of your Property for more information.
We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your research!
Sincerely,
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
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Thanks for the help