Those of us researching our family trees have certainly noticed how our ancestors moved around from farm to city or from state to state, following historic growth patterns.
Furthermore, legal boundaries of counties, cities, and towns change over time. Brand-new cities and towns are formed as population centers shift. Patients would often quarantine at these institutions for months at a time while receiving medical care. Some of these sanatoriums had hundreds of beds. However, once these institutions closed and other large residential homes established for different reasons, such as boys and girls homes also referred to as orphanages , ceased to be used, census planners changed the boundaries of the enumeration district for the next census.
There are multiple ways to find census enumeration district maps. The most common census district maps modern researchers search for are the and district maps. You can click on the following link to be directed to the Family Search website to learn more about finding enumeration district maps for the and US Federal Census, as well as others:.
It is a perfect time to learn about how planners designed and used enumeration maps, since the dedicated family tree researcher will be able to use enumeration district numbers and other details to find their ancestors on the census when it is released later this year, without having access to the name index for that census, which will likely take a long time to complete. I hope that this post has helped you learn more about enumeration districts and how to find enumeration district maps, and so much more.
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I Accept Show Purposes. Name searching is the easier one to do, and when it works you get instant gratification. However, due to misspellings and other oddities, name searching doesn't always work. And when it doesn't, you might need to resort to the more difficult address searching. Items 1 through 4 below deal with address searching, and 5 through 6 with name searching. This One-Step tool allows you to determine the , , , , , or ED if you know the person's address.
It is a street-based search utility for large cities and a town-based search utility for smaller municipalities. For it covers about 40 of the largest cities. For and it covers the top cities in population plus a few others. For and , all cities having a population over 25, over cities are included. For it includes all cities over 25,, as well as a number of smaller ones, for a total of about cities.
For , it includes practically all urban areas over 20,, and most urban areas between 5, to 20, for a total of about 2, cities and townships. We have resources to help individuals or societies add more cities to these utilities. Please contact Joel Weintraub if interested.
For the large cities, this does not present as much information as the street based tool 1a above. In particular, our and transcribed descriptions do not show streets but instead includes only political definitions and institutional names. If you want to see the streets within the specific EDs in these cities, you can use our Census Street Finder. For and , the ED descriptions include a link Details, "view" to the National Archives film descriptions of each ED; for large cities you will be able to see the descriptions of each block within each ED.
This One-Step tool allows you to determine the microfilm roll number and to see a layout of that roll. Furthermore, this tool will let you view the images of the pages on that roll or in that ED.
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