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1920 Census
[Excerpt]...Questions Asked in the 1920 Census
Name of street, avenue road, etc.; house number or farm; number of dwelling in order of visitation; number of family in order of visitation; name of each person whose place of abode was with the family; relationship of person enumerated to the head of the family; whether home owned or rented; if owned, whether free or mortgaged; sex; color or race; age at last birthday; whether single, married, widowed, or divorced; year of immigration to United States;...
Transported to the Twenties via the 1920 Census
[Excerpt]...The 1920 U.S. Federal Census is a great starting point for family historians because it is the most recent census available and it contains a lot of valuable information, including each person's: name; address; age; relationship to the head of household; sex; color or race; marital status; status as either home owner or renter; year of immigration; whether naturalized and the year naturalization; schooling; literacy; place of birth; native tongue;...
Bremen Passenger Lists 1920-39
[Excerpt]...The Ordinance Concerning the Emigration Traveling on Domestic or Foreign Ships of 1832 in Bremen was the first state law to protect emigrants. Among other things it required the ship owners to maintain passenger lists. In 1851, the Bremen Chamber of Commerce established the Nachweisungsbureau für Auswanderer (the Information Office for Emigrants), to which the ship captains had to deliver their lists....
All 1790 to 1920 U.S. Census Images Now Available Online
[Excerpt]...I will admit that I had doubts whether or not Ancestry.com could pull of this monumental feat in a year's time. In fact, Ancestry.com did start that fall and did complete the project within the one year they predicted. The company has now completed digitizing all available U.S. census records and has placed all 10 million images online. Genealogists can now view these census records from the comfort of their own home. The collection includes more than 425 million names on the 10 million images...
1920 U.S. Federal Census Index on CD-ROM
[Excerpt]...The complete 1920 U.S. Federal Census Index will fill many CD-ROM disks. The first few to be released cover large cities in the eastern United States. Later releases will cover rural areas and will also move westward. The disk I used this week lists 686,353 heads of household enumerated in the Fourteenth Census in New York's Brooklyn Borough...
Finding My 1920 People, Part I
[Excerpt]...My wife's grandmothers were both living in cities, one in Rock Island, Illinois, and one likely in Chicago. When I located my wife's grandmother in the 1920 Rock Island census, I did not have access to the 1920 Illinois Soundex and did not want to view the entire census for the city of Rock Island. I needed the residential address for my wife's grandmother's family in 1920. The Rock Island city directory for 1919 was used. The father, Henry Mortier, was quickly located in the directory. Armed with an address, my search of the census was significantly easier. Had I not located the family this way, I would have located a 1920 directory address and tried that as well...
1920 Census, Part II: Michael Locates His People
[Excerpt]...This week's column focuses on my searches in the 1920 Ancestry.com census indexes for some of my relatives. My wife and I have thirty- five ancestors who were alive in 1920-this article discusses just some of them. Some of the techniques I used to locate these ancestors may be just the ticket to finding your ancestors in this and in other indexes...
Nevada Orphan's Home Records, 1870-1920
[Excerpt]...In Carson City, Nevada stands the building which housed the State Orphans Home from 1870 until 1992. This database contains admissions records for the home from October 1870 until 1920. Requirements for admission were an orphaned child under 14 years of age deemed "worthy" by the County Board of Commissioners...
Leavenworth, Kansas Death Index, 1870-1920
[Excerpt]...Leavenworth County, Kansas lies just twenty miles north of Kansas City. This index of deaths from the greater Leavenworth area, includes the names of over 1400 persons who died in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Created by the Leavenworth County Genealogical Society, it contains, for some, information regarding family, circumstances of death, and other pertinent facts. To those researchers of Kansan ancestry, this can be a tremendous aid...
Peru, Massachusetts, Census Records, 1790-1920
[Excerpt]...The western town of Peru, Massachusetts, was created in 1771 in the county of Berkshire. This database is an index to the federal censuses of town of Peru from 1790 to 1920, and contains the names of over 3100 persons. It provides the first and last name of the resident appearing in the census along with the page and line number of the source document from which the information was taken...
Hancock, Massachusetts Census, 1790-1920
[Excerpt]...Located on the border with New York, the town of Hancock, Massachusetts was formed in 1776 in the county of Berkshire. This database is an index to the federal censuses of the town from 1790 to 1920, and contains the names of over 5000 persons...
Callaway County, Missouri Obituaries, 1920-55
[Excerpt]...As one of the oldest counties in the state of Missouri, Callaway County is an important part of that state's history. This database is an index of obituary notices taken from local newspapers within the county between 1920 and 1955...
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