>> Charlene Pinkowski wrote: Can anyone out there advise me? > I am wondering whether or not there are indexes to the 1910 and 1920 > Nashville, Davidson, TN censuses by street? I have a street address for both > years but the family was not found in the Soundex files, so I want to get in > the reels with the exact street and hunt for them that way. CHARLENE, just thought of another source that might help you, besides the census. This source is of no use to researchers whose ancestors lived outside of towns. It has maps of Nashville with ALL streets defined inside Nashville and probably indexed. IT WAS THE SANBORN MAP CO. There was an Insurance Company that insured buildings WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS of towns and within large cities all across the country. Don't have exact dates of the maps, something like late 1800s up thru 1930s. Of course large cities were done but surprising that even smaller towns too, some quite small. (example: I found a map of a town of just 3000 population in 1905). It was the SANBORN MAP COMPANY out of N. Y. All of their maps that survived, for the entire U. S.(some 700,000) are now at the Geography and Map Div, Library of Congress.Very expensive to go thru the Library of Congress so try and use a more local source. There is a book pub 1981 introduction by Walter W. Ristow titled Fire Insurance Maps in the Lib. of Congress: Plans of North American Cities and Towns Produced by the Sanborn Map Company, on page 598 is description of what years these Sanborn maps are available for Murfreesboro AND NASHVILLE.The Middle Tennessee State LIbrary at Murfreesboro had this book back in 1992. In Tennessee, these maps were then housed at the Library of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tn. 37916. (May be elsewhere as well ). Contact them and ask if they have the Sanborn Maps for Nashville for the approximate years you want and get a full description of each microfilm roll. Ask if they will do an interlibrary loan of this microfilm? In Texas where I live, these maps (just for Texas) are housed at the 'Special Collections' section of MANY college libraries across the state.These collections will have most of the Sanborn Maps for the towns and cities in Texas but not all years I usually go in to use the maps (make copies from microfilm), on Saturdays when there are fewer college kids on campus. WHAT YOU MIGHT GET FOR YOUR TROUBLE: They did maps SHOWING EACH STREET within the town or city, almost every year. These maps are great even tho they didn't list each property owner's name...they did show EVERY SINGLE STREET that existed that year, within a town/city. On each street, they depicted EACH BLOCK WITH CROSS STREETS. Within each city block, they drew a DIAGRAM OF EACH LOT...LAST, they drew AN OUTLINE OF SHAPE OF EACH BUILDING ERECTED ON EACH LOT INCLUDING EVEN OUTBUILDINGS.. In the downtown areas they would name some landmarks on the streets like churches etc, but as I said, property owners names not listed. For example: I was able to find the house my folks owned which was built 1907 in Sherman Texas (small town then 10,000 population). I found on the 1906 map that only the lot was there (no buildings). The 1907 map depicted accurately the shape of the lot, the outline of their house (on the lot) and the outline of the workshop and garage at rear of house. The outlines would be as from a 'bird's eye view' looking down. Hope this helps. Joyce