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From: Ronald McComb <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Hungarians in the 1910 Chicago Carroll Avenue neighborhood
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 15:57:25 -0800


What everyone needs to keep in mind most census takers had nary a clue
how to spell Hungarian names and a lot of folks they talked to
had a language barrier. Thus it is very common that the names are
not correct and the information is not complete.
This is especially difficult when you have a large city like chicago
and cannot find them. This also makes the soundex pretty much usless
since the vowels are completely differend do to accents etc like cz
sz etc etc.

Therefore you have to resort to what I have found a proven method.
But it is time consumming.
If you can find their name in a city directory you have won
half the battle or if you know where they lived.

From here you have an address. You need to get to an elections map to
determine the enumeration district. This is not easy
either but it can be done.

With the enumeration district or districts you have to look house by
house.
You may want to cover all enumeration districts in the area.
Street by street name by name.

What I do is look for whomever came from Hungary and record it
and that is how I came across the families I posted.
I only wrote the complete info on families I am concerned with.
This gets around all misspellings. And bad soundex issues.

You can ask for the correct census film with the proper ED
enumertion district and bypass the soundex.

Each ED is about 15 or so pages some more some less. It is also
common to have one ED on one side of the stree and another on the
other side.

Now if your search is a small town just get the census
for that town abnd county and look thru the whole town.
sometimes this is faster than looking in the soundex anyway
especially if your soundex code has a lot of 0's.

Hope this helps everyone looking for Hungarian surnames.

Ron McComb

Lorraine Moore wrote:
>
> At 11:35 AM 2/21/98 -0800, Ronald McComb wrote:
> What I can tell you to save you time they are in Enumeration District
> >1456 of Chicago in the 1910 census that should get you to the
> >exact microfilm they are on since 1910 is not soundexed.
> >Both the fed and the LDS church have these films to be viewed.
> >Ron
> >--
> I have ordered the 1910 soundex for Chicago many many times and have looked
> up my family. I have had to order from soundex microfilm from the AGLL
> because our local library does not have the soundex for any states outside
> the southern states, but they do have the federal census records. So when
> I find them on the soundex, (and I use their reader machines to do this)
> then I just look on the federal census records right then and there.
>
> Nor the problem with the 1910 federal census that I have found -- at least
> in TN -- that they (the census takers) did not do a good job contacting
> everyone....my husband's great aunt and uncle were in the same house for
> the 1900 and 1920 but they were not on the 1910 one.
>
> I have heard that the 1910 census records were a disaster -- I guess much
> like the 1990 census. The 1990 census that was mailed to every household
> was not taken seriously by many. I know quite a few who did not return
> their census forms. I don't know what future genealogists looking for
> their families are going to go through -- what with out mobility and then
> if people do not complete or are not counted in the census.
>
> Lorraine Moore
> Baton Rouge, LA

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