On Jul 18, 10:56=A0am, KarenP <tyshu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 18, 10:29=A0am, keith...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jul 17, 2:41=A0pm, singhals <singh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > gordongrening wrote:
> > > > Has anyone else had problems in finding people on the 1920 Census?
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=A0I have
> > > > at least 5 families now where I can find them on the 1900, 1910,
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d 1930
> > > > census but not the 1920. =A0In several cases the families were
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ng at the
> > > > same address on all three census, so I assume they were living
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e in
> > > > 1920. =A0 I even tried searching for neighbors listed on the 1910
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nd 1930
> > > > census and can not find them either. =A0The families are all from
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ifferent
> > > > towns in Pennsylvania.
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> > > Assuming you're using an on-line digital index --
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> > > try creative searching. =A0I found one of my missing families
> > > with the 2nd and 3rd letter of the surname reversed. =A0The
> > > result was an OBVIOUS error that wasn't caught. (Qeu...
> > > simply isn't an English word).
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> > > I recently found a missing man indexed as ----, because the
> > > surname was close to illegible; I recognized him only
> > > because he was living with his married sister.
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> > > Among creative searches -- search on given name, race, year,
> > > state; expand each county and eyeball the surnames. =A0Doesn't
> > > work if the name if John, of course, so for really common
> > > given names, pick an age range +/- 5 yrs usually does it.
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> > > search on year, state, birthplace (so long as state and
> > > birthplace aren't the same) as in 1920 Penna. census for
> > > persons born in New Jersey or Illinois. =A0Expand each county
> > > and eyeball it.
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> > Maybe they were not interviewed by the census officials or a more
> > likely possibility is that, due to bad handwriting by the census
> > taker, the last name of the family was misspelled with an alternate
> > spelling that is off by one or more letters in the last name. =A0You
> > need to check the census for each family member listed (including the
> > children) to see if any matches come up that agree with the date of
> > birth, AND (AS PREVIOUSLY SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER RESPONDER), post the
> > names you are looking for here (along with year of birth) and which
> > city/county/state is applicable, and we can do some checking or
> > perhaps try to figure out what has happened.
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> > GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHER
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> I did post an earlier message and several people looked but I'm all
> for additional eyes
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> I"m searching for
> James Joseph FLOOD b 1875 New Jersey
> Margaret (Maggie) Maloney Flood b 1875 New York
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> they should be listed with their daughters all born in NJ
> Mary b 1898
> Helen b 1900
> Margarite b 1903
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> also listed should be their nieces/adopted daughters
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> Alice b 1904
> Florence b 1911
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> They should be in Bergen County New Jersey most likely Cliffside
> Park. =A0They were in Cliffside Park in 1910, 1918 and 1930. =A0My
> grandmother got married there in 1924 to a Cliffside Park resident.
> They lived on Riverview Place Cliffside Park on James's WW1 draft
> registration. =A0There house in 1930 was only a couple blocks away.
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> Thanks
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Who are the original parents of Alice and Florence and what city/
county did they live in previously before being adopted?
What year were they adopted?
Do you have the names of the parents of James and Margaret Flood?
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