It's Saturday Night -
time for
more Genealogy Fun!
Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing
is to:
1) The 1950 United States
Census was released by the U.S. National Archives on Friday, 1 April
2022.
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.
Here's mine:
I planned to write about my first endeavors in locating
my family in the 1950 census, so I am glad Randy chose this as our theme. I had other tasks to do and finally got researching in the evening of
April 1.
My first tries were unsuccessful. The search feature on the
National Archives website was not bringing up my family at all. But no worries.
I had used Steve Morse’s website and the tool Unified Census ED Finder to locate the
Enumeration District number based on address of the person, and my list is here.
However, I still had troubles. Some of the ED numbers were
wrong in my list. 2811 P St was not in ED 70-86, but rather in 70-88, and 2300
Portola Way was not in 70-172, but rather 70-166. Another issue was ED 7-43 in
Contra Costa County wasn’t listed as a single ED but rather 7-23a, 7-23b, and
7-23c. Luckily each had a description and I made a guess as to which one might
have my grandparents and mother.
This post will focus on my dad’s family, the Horks.
Anne Hork & children Lorene & William
My dad and his mother were living at 2739 Sinclair Avenue in Concord, Contra
Costa County, California. Browsing in ED 7-30 brought them up. I discovered
that my dad’s oldest sister, Lorene, was also living with them. My grandmother
was an elementary school teacher at a city school, which I expected. She had
been hired in September 1949. Lorene was a receptionist at a doctor’s office.
My dad had no job but was asked the extra questions. He was not living in Concord
a year ago, nor the county, and did not live on a farm. He lived in Napa
County, California the previous year. His parents were born in the U.S., he finished 12th grade, and
had no income the past year. The questions were wasted on him.[1]
Sister, June and husband Eugene Soares
They were also living in Concord at 2980 Ponderosa Drive. Eugene, June and one-year-old
daughter, “Melani” M. No surprises here. He worked for a wholesale meat company
as a salesman.[2]
Because they were on page 72, I went to the page they should have been on and
found a note to find them on sheet 72. Others on the page said they were not
home.
Hamilton, Montana Horks
Searching on Hork didn’t work in Hamilton, Ravalli, Montana, either. But I
had the ED number of 41-7 and browsed through the images until I
found my dad’s aunt, Carrie Hork at 223 South 3rd Street,
uncle, Anthony J Hork at 601 South 5th Street,
and cousin, Richard A. Hork at 804 South 4th Street.[3]
Carrie had no job, Anthony worked at the County Clerk and Recorder, and answered the extra questions: his father was born in Germany and mother in the U.S., finished twelfth grade, worked 52 weeks, made $2496 the previous year and $300 in other business, and never served in the armed forces. Richard worked as a public accountant.
There are more Horks to find, but I don’t have addresses and will have to wait until the census is completely indexed. It probably won’t take long.
[1]
1950 U.S. census, Contra Costa Co, California, ED 7-30, sheet 12, household
147, Anne M. Hork family; U.S. National Archives, 1950 Census (https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ : accessed 1 April 2022).
[2]
1950 U.S. census, Contra Costa Co, California, ED 7-35, sheet 72, household 122,
Eugene F. Soares family; U.S. National Archives, 1950 Census (https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ : accessed 1 April 2022).
[3]
For Carrie, see 1950 U.S. census, Ravalli Co, Montana, ED 41-7, sheet 7,
household 118, Carrie M. Hork; U.S. National Archives, 1950 Census (https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ : accessed 1 April 2022). For Anthony, see 1950 U.S.
census, Ravalli Co, Montana, ED 41-7, sheet 2, household 20, Anthony Hork family;
U.S. National Archives, 1950 Census (https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ : accessed 1 April 2022). For Richard, see 1950 U.S.
census, Ravalli Co, Montana, ED 41-7, sheet 13, household 207, Richard A. Hork family;
U.S. National Archives, 1950 Census (https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ : accessed 1 April 2022).
[4]
1950 U.S. census, Deer Lodge Co, Montana, ED 12-6, sheet 25, household 1 (cont),
line 7, Frank. Hork; U.S. National Archives, 1950 Census (https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ : accessed 1 April 2022).
I had the same experience as you trying out the search feature and also used Steve Morse's website. I didn't have any issue with the ED pages, though. It looks like you had to do a bit more searching and browsing to find your families.
ReplyDeleteIf you had mismatches between the ED's you got from Steve's site and where those addresses actually were, you should let Steve know. He always wants to know when the tools on his site are not entirely accurate and updates the tools when possible.
ReplyDeleteA good idea.
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