My ancestors, the Kolbs, stayed on Adams St. although they moved from house to house. Actually part of the family was still there in the late 1950s or early 1960s. I have to check the addresses to see when they made the change from one house to another. Karen > > From: Jillaine Smith <jillainedc@yahoo.com> > Date: 2005/04/16 Sat PM 10:06:56 CDT > To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYERIE] Adams Street in 1900 census > > > >Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:50:01 -0500 > >From: <klkolb@verizon.net> > > > >Jillaine, try ward 13, eds 100 and 101. > > Karen, that was it! Specifically 101. Thank you! > > And what an oddity... there were three addresses on that block where > ancestors of mine had lived at least in 1890 and I think as late as 1897, > but in 1900, NONE of those three addresses were listed/enumerated. Houses > immediately around them were, but not those. So odd.... the families had > moved out, but had not yet sold/rented the old property... > > The other thing I noticed is that so few of the surnames that were there > earlier (and on nearby streets like Monroe and Madison) were still there in > 1900... > > Did your ancestors who were in this neighborhood also move out around the > same time? What was going on? Can anyone speak to that? > > Thanks again for those who helped and offered to help! > > -- Jillaine > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine > > > > ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> > See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >
Have you considered that there may have been numbering changes on the street or block and that perhaps no one changed houses? At 07:18 AM 4/17/2005 -0500, klkolb@verizon.net wrote: >My ancestors, the Kolbs, stayed on Adams St. although they moved from >house to house. Actually part of the family was still there in the late >1950s or early 1960s. I have to check the addresses to see when they made >the change from one house to another. >Karen > > > > From: Jillaine Smith <jillainedc@yahoo.com> > > Date: 2005/04/16 Sat PM 10:06:56 CDT > > To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [NYERIE] Adams Street in 1900 census > > > > > > >Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:50:01 -0500 > > >From: <klkolb@verizon.net> > > > > > >Jillaine, try ward 13, eds 100 and 101. > > > > Karen, that was it! Specifically 101. Thank you! > > > > And what an oddity... there were three addresses on that block where > > ancestors of mine had lived at least in 1890 and I think as late as 1897, > > but in 1900, NONE of those three addresses were listed/enumerated. Houses > > immediately around them were, but not those. So odd.... the families had > > moved out, but had not yet sold/rented the old property... > > > > The other thing I noticed is that so few of the surnames that were there > > earlier (and on nearby streets like Monroe and Madison) were still > there in > > 1900... > > > > Did your ancestors who were in this neighborhood also move out around the > > same time? What was going on? Can anyone speak to that? > > > > Thanks again for those who helped and offered to help! > > > > -- Jillaine