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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Am I understanding right that you only have the address to look for? You don’t know your gggfather’s name? If you know his name it would be easier to search for that rather than trying to page through all of Milwaukee looking for his address.

    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. If you’re looking at a document from a cemetery showing the individual’s last residence, they would use the numbering system that existed at the time of the document’s creation, which is not the same as the numbering that existed in 1928. Today 3511 North 37th street still exists, and it’s between Nash and Keefe streets. This shows the changes in street numbering that took place over that two year span. What ended up as 3501 used to be 1540. So that’s why your addresses in the censuses you looked at were closer to 1500. I don’t know exactly what number 3511 will translate to, but it’s going to be something greater than 1540, probably not very much higher than that. In modern-day Milwaukee there’s only one building between 3501 (which we know was 1540 in the census) and 3511. If you find 1540, the house you’re looking for is probably just two entries after that one.

    Oh, just in case they don’t do this in your country, I should note something: when you’re walking down a street in the US, the buildings on one side of the street will have even numbered addresses and the buildings on the other side will have odd numbered addresses. So if you see odd numbered addresses on the census, those will be on the wrong side of the road and you’ll know they are not the one you’re looking for.




  • The Supreme Court struck down a similar law in 2002. Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234. The Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 prohibited “any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture” that “is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct”.

    I haven’t seen or read the language of this Louisiana law, and presumably intelligent law-makers would be aware that a law with a similar intent has been ruled unconstitutional, so maybe they changed enough so that this one will hold up.


  • I migrated from Evernote to Joplin because Evernote started charging. I migrated from Joplin because the sync was problematic and wasn’t working correctly for me.

    My biggest uses are my recipe collection, my bookmarks list, and where I keep notes and roadmaps for my personal hobby projects. I don’t use it anywhere even close to its full potential. Links, for example, are nothing that I use and I can’t find a compelling reason to do so. I use almost no formatting either. I do use tags, tho. I really don’t need something with as much power as this has.