My Trails into the Past

I have begun locating the Enumeration Districts (EDs) for our relatives who were living in 1950. Lisa’s paternal relatives can be found here . Her maternal relatives here . In order to locate the EDs, I need to know the address of each person. I begin by checking my genealogy database for a clue to their address and if I don’t have one near the 1950 time-frame, seek out a source on Ancestry or FamilySearch, using such sources as city directories, voter registrations, newspaper articles, and other records that give addresses. These are the relatives I expect to find on my husband Norman’s maternal side of the family. Nilsen Family Arthur N. Nilsen is Norman’s maternal grandfather. I know he and his wife, Lena, were living at 2114 X Street in Sacramento around 1947 from a city directory. When he died in 1954, he was living in Rio Linda on their chicken ranch. But when did they move there? Rio Linda is a small town in the county of Sacramento and there are no Sacramento County dir...