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/McKA Y/LESCZYNSKI/ORLIKOWSKI

Interesting, Thomas.  This also raises a question I have.   My grandparents appear in 1940 on Leland Avenue, but none of their four adult, unmarried children, who were still living at home, appear on the census.  Grandma & Grandpa were born in Chicago and spoke both English and Polish, so communication would not have been the issue, unless the census taker's question about occupants in the household was simply misunderstood.   I was told at one time that census takers made notes of the various census questions on index type cards and later used those cards to make the ledger page entries.  The person I heard this from had a copy of such a card from an earlier census obtained from microfilm.  Has anyone else heard of this?   We lived with my Grandma & Grandpa for a time, and I knew the families on their block.  In looking up and down at the houses listed in 1940, I see those families and their chidren all listed.  I'm totally bummed that my Mom and her siblings aren't represented in 1940 and was wondering if I should hold out hope that the aforementioned index cards actually exist and might have been microfilmed.  I'd certainly like to check at some point to see if the census taker just missed entering them on the ledger page.   Ruth   (NOTE:  Written with a HEAVY does of wishful thinking)     ________________________________ From: Thomas Mackowiak <ThomasMackowiak@comcast.net> To: cook-co-il-l@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 4:00 PM 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/McKA Y/LESCZYNSKI/ORLIKOWSKI ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message