I had good luck finding people in Rhode Island. I've found about 15 of my families. However, I'm running into the same problem as Thomas for my husband's family in Chicago. I was looking for 5638 Drake. It's possible my family wasn't there in 1940 because the address comes from the WWII draft registration from 1942, but the house should be there. It's ED 103-2494. I found Drake in this group, but there are many weird things here. There were 3 or 4 houses in the 5600's enumerated, but there are also many lines of information erased here and there, where you can see a family was listed, then erased and on these lines the enumerator wrote "extra lines", and cancel on the left side of the sheet. On one page there is a note that says "extra houses" LOL Then, starting about 4 pages from the end, the sheets have no street names. He did write in block numbers here, but no names. I'm guessing some of these houses are Drake since he missed so many the first time through, but they belong to more than one street because I found at least two with the same house number. I spent some time over the weekend helping find someone on Staten Island, NY and we ran into many missing house numbers. Using the enumeration district maps, and not just the descriptions, we were in the right place. I'm also having trouble finding an address in Northampton, MA. Again, I have the street, but the house number seems to be missing. I wonder if these missing addresses were gathered later by mail or by visits to the homes at a later date, and if so, where is this information? Lisa llepore@comcast.net > -----Original Message----- > From: cook-co-il-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cook-co-il- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Mackowiak > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 5:01 PM > To: cook-co-il-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] 5413 South Wood Street Missing from ED 103-996 > > Another Mackowiak family researcher and I are looking for the 1940 census > image that shows the Stanley and Mary/Maria/Maryanne Mackowiak Szafranowski > family who lived at 5413 South Wood Street in Chicago. The Enumeration > District for this address is 103-996. This Enumeration District consisted > of the south side of 53rd Street between Paulina and Wood Streets on the > north; the west side of Paulina Street on the east; the north side of > Garfield Boulevard on the south and the east side of Wood Street on the > west. Both sides of Hermitage Avenue from 53rd Street to Garfield Boulevard > were also part of this ED. > > The enumerator did not count the people at 5413 South Wood Street for some > unknown reason. This address should be on Image 9 of this ED on the > 1940census.archives.gov website. The enumerator did go back to other > addresses on the 5400 block of South Wood Street and other addresses in the > ED and enumerated those addresses that he did not enumerate initially. But > somehow he totally misses the 5413 South Wood St. address. The images > beginning about image 17 to image 22 contain the enumerator's later > attempts to enumerate the addresses that were originally missed. > > What I am wondering is whether the Census Bureau sent out other enumerators > to follow up on addresses that were not enumerated by the original > enumerator. If another enumerator was sent out to follow up on missing > addresses and he was successful in enumerating the address in question, > where is that information in the census? Of course, the sending out of a > second enumerator to enumerate missing addresses would depend on whether > the Census Bureau was able to determine that there were addresses that were > not counted in the first place. > > Thomas Mackowiak > > MACKOWIAK/SERWATKIEWICZ/JANUSZEWSKI/WANATOWICZ/MROZ/MUNO/HARNEY/GLENNON/McK > A > Y/LESCZYNSKI/ORLIKOWSKI