United States Federal Census ED Finder Aid 1880 - 1950

Question

I don't see that this has been posted before, but if it has and I missed finding it, my apologies in advance. Here is a great finding aid for the ED, (Enumeration District) number for United States census records from 1880 to 1950. Very often it is necessary to browse the census records, but where to begin in a large area? If you know the street address, this finding aid will find the ED No. for you. Thanks again to Dr. Stephen Morse and Dr. Joel Weintraub for another great genealogical tool. Jim L.

https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html?year=1920

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I thought the release date for the 1950 US Census would not be released until 72 years after the census, which would be 2022.

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Hello Frank:

You are correct on that, however, Dr. Morse has already built into his ED finder that it will work for the 1950 U.S. census. I am just titling it what he did.  Jim

Answer 1

Thanks for telling us about this, Jim.

It looks like it will save me a lot of effort the next time I am trying to find the census page for someone whose location I think I know, but whose name I cannot find in a census index (probably because the name was seriously garbled).

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Hi Ellen: Thanks for your answer. That is exactly what I am finding. I have had a number of cases where my French Canadian families' names were seriously mangled in various census records so no amount of searching would ever find them. However, I am finding some census records for them and noting that their address stayed the same for many years, I was wondering how do could I find the ED numbers. I just Yahoo'd it, (I don't care for Google), searched for, "United States Census ED finder" and up popped the Stephen Morse site. I had used his Castle Garden site for many years and had no idea he done this for the census records. I find it pretty amazing. If you play around with it, sometimes you get multiple ED's, but clicking on one brings up a spreadsheet of the ED's versus different streets. At worst, I had to browse two ED's, but less than 40 images each, so pretty quick. Cheers, Jim

Answer 2

It's a great adjunct to what's published in the uS Census.

Answer 3

Great tool, hope to be around long enough to use it on the 1950 census ...

Answer 4

Less than 25 hours left until the release.