In a message dated 5/13/2006 2:15:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, chouikh2006@btinternet.com writes: >>Another question for the list while I`m here,my family,over a period of >>time lived at four different addresses but in the same street,Was this a common practice?If so any ideas why hey might have moved so many times?<< My relatives also lived in different places in the same area, but I am not sure if this is really true. It may be that the same place was described differently. I haven't been able to find all of the addresses on maps. Any thoughts? Here they are: 182 Park Street, Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire (1861) Glydon's Building, Steward Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire (1871) Victoria Road, Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire (Sept 1876) Springhill, Lady Wood, Birmingham, Warwickshire (Oct 1876) 21 Steward St. Ct., 2nd House, Birmingham, Warwickshire (1881) Then they moved to Rastrick, Yorkshire. Meanwhile, my American great grandfather lived in 14 places over ten years, between 1921 and 1931, all within a three block area in Illinois. The only reason I even know this, since this did not show up on the census obviously, (and my grandmother had already married and left home) was that his second wife kept a journal with all the addresses and her granddaughter gave it to me. The fact that she made such a list suggests to me that it was somewhat unusual. When I mentioned this all to my mother, she laughed and suggested that maybe they couldn't pay the rent! Kathryne