> I've run in to a wall, that I don't know how to climb over. I found > my ggrandfather listed on the 1910 and 1930 Census, but I can't seem > to find him anywhere in the 1920. Is there a specific way to go > about finding someone who is not indexed? Or am I stuck with going > through every page in a five county radius to search for him? Any > suggestions, ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated. > > Carrie Marsh <carrie1@attglobal.net> There doesn't seem to sufficient information to actually help you, but ... on the anything's better'n nothing theory ... Not Indexed = definition, please? Not indexed under the name you expected, not indexed where you expected to find him, not-found in the index, or simply not there at all? If he was married -- is the spouse or children found in someone else's household? If he has an unusual given name try a digital search on that name rather than his surname. Did you look in the military part of the census? 1920 was soon after Armistice, and you never know. Could he have been, unmarried, in college or trade school? What are the four most common misspellings of the surname and what is their soundex code? Could some handwritten letter be mistaken for a completely different handwritten letter [i.e., Geltm* eluded me for 20 years because the t was being read by the indexers as a b--and I have myself made my t exactly that way.] Cheryl singhals@erols.com