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Position:Home>Genealogy> Advanced question - enumeration districts?Question: Advanced question - enumeration districts?I often do manual examination of census to take advantage of the fact that extended families often lived near each other and to account for problems (such as misspellings, bad indexes, etc) common to census searches. There is also the likelihood that when a person does move, they often don't move very far. Thus I examine earlier (or later) census in the same area. Problem is enumeration districts. Finding the boundaries of enumeration districts is pretty straight forward. However, mapping an area to an enumeration district becomes difficult when the boundary no longer exists (a road that is long gone, a landmark/building that is gone). I'm pretty much been manually mapping out districts as best I can. Does anyone know if there are actual maps of enumeration districts? And if so, where are they archived? I have access to all of the facilities in the DC area so would have no problem actually going to the place (if there is one and is in DC area). Does anyone know if there actual maps? Additional Details 18 hours ago 17 hours ago Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 18 hours ago Asking from US.17 hours ago Leaving this open to maybe get more great info and so others can see responses. Sanborn maps were new to me - thanks - but the info about National Archives is wonderful - I'm over there doing research at least a couple times a month so I will certainly check it out! Wonderful replies! Thanks http://www.us-census.org/research/ed-map... see end of the article for the location of those that exist I don't know if actual Enumeration District maps are extant, though I suspect they are, but you could probably use Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the proper era. Many university libraries, and a few larger publics, have these maps, which were put out periodically by the Sanborn Company from 1867 to 1970. They covered about 12,000 cities and towns in the US. They show in incredible detain the precise layout of the subject cities, including what materials each building was made of and how far they were from each other. As neighborhoods developed, the Sanborn maps will show you that. Mapping E.D.s should be easy with these maps. Are you asking this question from the UK or the States. I just always get the maps through Interlibrary loan from our official State library in Lansing. They have the maps for every ED in the country on film. Not sure that other states are the same, though I do know both Indiana and Illinois have them as well. Going through Interlibrary loan only takes a week and costs all of $1. Then they come to my local library and I can use them for a month. |