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    1. [McBEE] Aids to 1920 & 1930 Census research at Ancestry.com & Genealogy.com
    2. Valorie Zimmerman
    3. If you have Ancestry.com census access, then this site may help your research: http://www.stevemorse.org. There is also a genealogy.com interface; which also requires a paid account to gen.com. Stephen Morse has created on interface, that in the words of Gary Mokotoff, "if you are searching by street address in any of the cities that had more than 45,000 population in the 1930 census, the Morse site allows you to determine the Enumeration District and then link directly to the Ancestry.com site to retrieve the census images for the ED." This would be valuable if you were able to find the people in the City Directories, but can't find them in the indexes at Ancestry. Mokotoff adds, "Ancestry allows searching by Last or First Name (Exact spelling, American Soundex or some wildcard ability), State, County, Township, Age, or Birthplace. "To these capabilities the Morse portal to the Ancestry census sites has added the following search features: * First, middle and last name may contain a set of characters or End with a set of characters * Ancestry requires at least three characters to start a name for a wildcard search. Morse allows one or two characters. * Search by relationship to Head of Household. An important feature. "One of the great advantages of the Ancestry.com index is that it is an all-person index; you can search for any person in the household. This can also be a disadvantage when browsing for a particular family, because it increases the number of false positives (people that meet the criteria but are not who you are looking for). "Restricting the search to only Head of Household narrows the search for a particular family. * Search by microfilm number including a specific frame on the roll." You may recall that Stephen Morse created the search engines to the Ellisisland.org site that now reside at Gary Mokotoff's site, http://www.jewishgen.org. I hope you find this site of use in your research. My thanks to Gary for posting this information to the APG- L. Valorie

    03/22/2003 02:50:28