Re: 1920 Census

In message <6e8nc8F5mhevU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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          Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> gordongrening wrote:
> > Has anyone else had problems in finding people on the 1920 Census?  I
> > have  at least 5 families now where I can find them on the 1900, 1910,
> > and 1930  census but not the 1920.  In several cases the families were
> > living at the  same address on all three census, so I assume they were
> > living there in  1920.   I even tried searching for neighbors listed
on
> > the 1910 and 1930  census and can not find them either.  The families
are
> > all from different  towns in Pennsylvania. 
> > 
> > 
>   there was a war 1914 to 1918 so people moved around
> 
> eg to work in a munitions factory
> 
> from  1918 onwards  many women had to give up their work for the men to 
> return to their old jobs
> 

Not really applicable to the States as they only joined in from mid 1917
and
the AEF was a much smaller unit than the British Army.

-- 
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>