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Subject: [GFO] 1930 Census Enumeration Districts
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 04:01:40 EST

Since I now see that the website is up and running, I'm going to let you all
in on a handy little website for anyone who will be searching for an
Enumeration District (ED) in any of the cities of the United States for the
1930 census.

A group of professors have abstracted all the ED listings, and created a
search engine that will tell you what ED any address in the city should be
listed in.

Because Portland was the only large city which did not have the streets
within the named boundaries listed, I provided the interior streets for their
database. Because of that, I want to warn all of you who are familiar with
Portland streets to beware. Many streets had names that have been renamed,
most particularly in south-east Portland. Almost all the east-west streets
have different designations today than they did in 1930.

To best use this index, you should know the street on which the subject of
your interest lived (check the 1930 City Directory), and the two cross
streets between whcih the house number fell (by looking in the "Housholder's
Directory" at the back of the city directory...the pink pages). Once you
enter that, you'll get your enumeration district. For example, by entering
Gideon, Milwaukie and E 14th, we find that anyone living at the spot of the
current Forum Library would be enumerated in district 26-159 (all EDs are
preceded by the 26- ). Remember, this isn't foolproof. There could be a
difference in where they lived at the time of the census and the time the
directory information was collected, but it should work for most people.

So do you all want to know the wesite address? You'll find the search engine
at:

http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/census/

I hope it helps you find whoever you are looking for!

Julie

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