Did My Family Get Skipped? Mining Census Records for Missing Ancestors

By all accounts, the Charles Stevens family should have been enumerated in Chicago in 1900. They should have been there, but they were not found. So how do we go about finding people in the census who don’t show up where, or how, we expect? Finding the Stevens family serves as a helpful guide for building timelines, finding and using city directories, and getting creative with census searches.

Did your family get skipped in a census? Learn how timelines, city directories, and creative searches can help you find those “lost” ancestors.