were his children alive? what were their names and date sof birth sometimes a search for another family member succeeds he could have been on holiday or visiting family or friends Hugh W jburns wrote: > His children don't know. I guess if I was in Memphis I could look at old > phone books if they are around. > John > "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:601mq0F1olfmbU1@mid.individual.net... >> jburns wrote: >>> I've tried every possible combination using Ancestry.com to find >>> someone on the 1930 census without any luck. I'm assuming that the >>> transcriber misread his name and I can't find him by searching. I >>> wonder if the 1930 census for Tennessee has been indexed by someone >>> besides Ancestry-like Ancestral Quest or a local genealogy group or? >>> I'm trying to find; Cyrus Arthur Moore born 1899 Missouri. His father >>> was born in Delaware his mother in Missouri. From 1924 to 1934 he was >>> in Memphis TN. He was working in advertising at a newspaper. He may >>> have been married but I don't know who to. He died in CA in 1986. His >>> SSN was issued in Texas. I have found him in 1900, 1910, & 1920 and >>> his draft registration. >>> I've started going through the census page by page but there are too >>> many of them. There are 249 districts with maybe an average of 40 >>> pages per district=over 9,000 pages. >>> If anyone has access to an index besides Ancestry.com could they >>> please check it for me? >>> John >> >> Try and find his adderess in other records >> >> telephone books? >> >> his children ? >> >> >> Hugh W >

He didn't have any children until several years later. Even if he was away he should have been caught on the census where ever he was. John "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message news:601oshF1of2o3U2@mid.individual.net... > were his children alive? > > what were their names and date sof birth > > > sometimes a search for another family member succeeds > > he could have been on holiday or visiting family or friends > > > Hugh W > > > jburns wrote: >> His children don't know. I guess if I was in Memphis I could look at old >> phone books if they are around. >> John >> "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:601mq0F1olfmbU1@mid.individual.net... >>> jburns wrote: >>>> I've tried every possible combination using Ancestry.com to find >>>> someone on the 1930 census without any luck. I'm assuming that the >>>> transcriber misread his name and I can't find him by searching. I >>>> wonder if the 1930 census for Tennessee has been indexed by someone >>>> besides Ancestry-like Ancestral Quest or a local genealogy group or? >>>> I'm trying to find; Cyrus Arthur Moore born 1899 Missouri. His father >>>> was born in Delaware his mother in Missouri. From 1924 to 1934 he was >>>> in Memphis TN. He was working in advertising at a newspaper. He may >>>> have been married but I don't know who to. He died in CA in 1986. His >>>> SSN was issued in Texas. I have found him in 1900, 1910, & 1920 and his >>>> draft registration. >>>> I've started going through the census page by page but there are too >>>> many of them. There are 249 districts with maybe an average of 40 pages >>>> per district=over 9,000 pages. >>>> If anyone has access to an index besides Ancestry.com could they please >>>> check it for me? >>>> John >>> >>> Try and find his adderess in other records >>> >>> telephone books? >>> >>> his children ? >>> >>> >>> Hugh W >>