If there’s a census where you cannot find a relative, think about what their enumeration would look like if you could find it.
Where would that ancestor be living? Who would be in their household? What would their ages be? If the census is recent enough, what would the ages of places of birth be for those people within the household? Think about how the completed for would look. Consider filing out their census form using blank forms readily available online. Have a source or a citation for every piece of information you put on the census. Your ancestor may have completed the form from memory but that won’t work for you.
Think about who some of their neighbors might have been.
By the time you’ve done all that, there’s a good chance you have noticed something about your ancestor you had previously overlooked.
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