tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243026616620216878.post875756387950879538..comments2023-11-16T11:29:49.892-05:00Comments on UpFront with NGS: It's Now 1 Week Until the 1940 Census is Released! What Can You Do To Prepare?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04087332931826888271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243026616620216878.post-28691408376295181442012-03-26T17:51:09.424-04:002012-03-26T17:51:09.424-04:00Excellent information Joel! Thanks very much for ...Excellent information Joel! Thanks very much for posting! I have personally long been a fan of Steve's tools and we do want to make sure that everyone maximizes their use of them!Diane L Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06263795778666487820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243026616620216878.post-85974196659830849142012-03-26T17:43:55.879-04:002012-03-26T17:43:55.879-04:00Hi,
The above shows some, but not all of the powe...Hi,<br /><br />The above shows some, but not all of the power of the One Step tools. Many people are **not** doing enough with the utilities. This post shows, for 200 Hanssler Pl in Peoria IL three possible EDs in 1940, 10-43, 10-44, and 10-45. However, it is possible using the Unified tool to get down to a single possibility.<br /><br />So let's review the steps. After one picks the state and city (Illinois, Peoria), the address boxes open. You then can enter 200 Hanssler Pl, and if you "Get ED", it will then show you the three possible choices. HOWEVER, you will see a statement that you can reduce the number of choices by entering cross streets on that block. Or, to put it another way, we are asking you to start adding the other street names on the same physical block that your house is on. We have a link to a map site to make that easier, and if you clicked on it, you would see that N Linn (east side of block), West Virginia Av (south side of block), and N Bigelow (west side of block) are the 3 other streets on the block. You then go back to the unified tool (back up), and choose the first street. Let's say it's West Virginia Ave. In this case, we probably made a mistake and listed it as Virginia Av W (that's our protocol unless the street name contains the compass modifier such as West End Av, West Virginia, etc). We then see we have reduced our results to two EDs, 10-44 and 10-45. We then can add another street name.... let's add "Linn" (on the list), and now we are down to a single ED #, 10-45. In addition, if we had pressed then "More Details", we would see the general definition for this ED (which doesn't show streets for cities over 50,000), and a link called "view". Press "view" and it takes you to the actual film definition scan for ED 10-45...showing all the blocks within the ED, and the order of street names on each block. And indeed, as a second opinion, you would see that block in 10-45, just as we predicted. So you ***don't*** have to look through all three EDs from the first choices presented.<br /><br />Joel Weintraub<br />Dana Point, CA<br />https://sites.google.com/site/census1940/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com