> Hello Carrie, Mary and list, Your search is Simple, USE the >Soundex!! You will need to get the films from NARA or at the LDS, >whatever you can do, BUT, you will find him IF you use the Soundex >for 1920. > > Only once Have I failed to find someone in the Soundex System, >Turns out he died 3 days before the Enumeration was done! Phil > >"Phil Stevens" <joephil@nwlink.com> In theory, this should work, but _only_ if the first letter of the surname was transcribed correctly! The surname in question, Riddle, could easily have been transcribed as Biddle. On another aspect of this question, I know that there were at least some areas that were not enumerated in 1920. I know exactly where my grandparents were living; I know exactly who their neighbors were. None of them shows up in the index at ancestry.com. I have scrolled through all the images for the area where they lived. This block was skipped! Perhaps that is what happened to the Riddle family. I would suggest to the original poster (Carrie Marsh) whether there are city directories available for the area of PA that you are focusing on. Check the Library of Congress web site; the microform reading room page has a list, by state, of city directories that they have on microfilm, by year. (I realize that you are not located in Washington, DC, but that is a hurdle down the line.) Janet M. Simons jsimons@childrensdefense.org

> In theory, this should work, but _only_ if the first letter of the > surname was transcribed correctly! The surname in question, Riddle, > could easily have been transcribed as Biddle. > > On another aspect of this question, I know that there were at least > some areas that were not enumerated in 1920. I know exactly where > my grandparents were living; I know exactly who their neighbors > were. None of them shows up in the index at ancestry.com. I have > scrolled through all the images for the area where they lived. This > block was skipped! Perhaps that is what happened to the Riddle > family. > > I would suggest to the original poster (Carrie Marsh) whether there > are city directories available for the area of PA that you are > focusing on. Check the Library of Congress web site; the microform > reading room page has a list, by state, of city directories that > they have on microfilm, by year. (I realize that you are not > located in Washington, DC, but that is a hurdle down the line.) > > Janet M. Simons <jsimons@childrensdefense.org> My ancestor was David King, I knew is age, name place of birth for him and parents and where he lived, but could not find him in the index So I searched by using first name, current county & state, age and state where he was born, 32 hits but atleast he was there. He showed up as David Ring versus David King Kent "Kent & Tracy" <cdr2002@mchsi.com>

jsimons@childrensdefense.org wrote: > <snip> > > On another aspect of this question, I know that there were at least > some areas that were not enumerated in 1920. I know exactly where > my grandparents were living; I know exactly who their neighbors > were. None of them shows up in the index at ancestry.com. I have > scrolled through all the images for the area where they lived. This > block was skipped! Perhaps that is what happened to the Riddle > family. Did you check on the Ancestry Images that there were no pages skipped. The images go page 11 A&B, 12 A&B, 13 A&B? It is also possible that the filming by the Census Bureau way back when, skipped a page. If that happened is is lost forever. bob gillis bob gillis <rpgillis@bellatlantic.net>