Hi everyone, I have this address from a Milwaukee cemetery, the person is maybe my gggfather. If I read it right it’s “3511, 37th street”(No. means North? Or number?) I wanted to verify this by finding this address in a 1930 census (he died in 1934). I’m not from US and I’m really struggling to understand the US street system and how the collection of that census was performed.

I found this website to help me narrow the results

https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html?year=1930

so I put there the address and as suggested, I took a look on the Google Map to see which street crosses it. The closest is Keefe Ave so I set it as such. It gave me 2 results.

https://i.imgur.com/mEtT0dE.png

I went through both of them and nothing. Actually the house numbers on 37th street weren’t even close to 3511 in those reports, they were around 1000 - 1500.

What am I doing wrong? How the street numbering works in the US? Also just out of curiosity - why weren’t addresses indexed in Family Search?

  • EfreetSK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Am I understanding right that you only have the address to look for?

    Ah, no I have much more info, I just didn’t want to overblown the post but I guess I just caused confusion. The fact is my search of gggfather goes for years. Months ago I created a thread on Reddit also, link

    The long story short is: I know my gggfather 1930 census record, he lived on 7th street with his sister, link

    And we found someone who died in 1934 and it could be him, several sources point this way. The address I posted is from this cemetery record, 2nd from the top on the right side link

    So I had this idea - I could check this “3511, 37th street” address from the cemetery and there are 2 options

    • If there is a Frank Stefanec living there, then the person on that cemetery is not my gggfather
    • If he’s not living there, then the person on that cemetery could be my gggfather because from what we know, there is a good chance he moved after 1930

    Here’s the tricky part: the street numbering system changed in Milwaukee during the period from 1929 to 1931. Bad timing for the census, for sure

    Ahhhhhh ☹️ I heard about some street naming change but I didn’t know it’s that bad. Thank you for the explanation, I’ll go through the records again