[or-roots] 1930 Census look up please

[Eugene V. Barnes]

For those who have confusion in the census.  We have Albridge for Elbridge 
in 1880,
Raynolds for Reynolds in 1870 and Wassen for Wasson in 1850,  In addition 
many
women used their 2nd name: Alice for Charity Alice,  Alice for Sarah Alice 
and so on.
Kids will appear by nickname;  And some people did not know where they or 
their
parents were born.  We had one woman whose place of birth and that of her 
parents
changed in suceeding census.  CLUE ; Daddy was married several times in 
several
states, and she was the family baby sitter.

My wife has one census where the note states the volunteer found the taker 
drunk
along the road, and he hoped that his work would be appreciated.

For the most part the sheets are pretty accurate, then again you will hit 
one that
is problematical.  People died and survivors remarried.  We have again a 
woman
in the Neb census and the Oregon census in the same year. They were taken on
different dates in that year.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:35 PM
Subject: [or-roots] 1930 Census look up please


>I have a Wade family living on the east side of 31st street in Portland
> Oregon in 1930 who I haven't been able to find in the census when I have 
> had
> access to that census. I stumbled across someone I thought was them in the
> 1920 Census while chasing Bonnie's Smiths is why I am asking, just looked 
> at
> that again and realized head of household was a widower, so can't be them.
>
> All I know for sure is their son is just around the corner, Lester 
> Sherwood
> Wade, b. 16 August 1902 in Winona County Minnesota.
> I have tried there for him and his family, and this Wasco county family
> really looks good, except Phoebe cuz says "the grandparents were around 
> the
> corner" so unless he remarried between 1920 and when she was living there
> the ones I found don't work. What really frustrated me last time I had
> access to the 1930 Census was I found Marg and Les right off the bat, and
> could go in all sorts of directions from their house in the census for
> blocks but not "just around the corner"
>
> WAsco county sure rang a bell because I can remember Lester telling a 
> story,
> unfortunately I no longer remember for sure whether he was telling it on
> himself or on a friend, but I think it was the latter, about racing past a
> fruit vendor and snagging a quince and the expression on said childs face
> part way down the block when he bit into his stolen "apple"
>
> Les C
>
>
>
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