{"id":167,"date":"2015-06-12T23:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-06-13T00:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:32:37","slug":"meet-your-search-options-the-1925-iowa-state-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Search Options: The 1925 Iowa State Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1925 Iowa State Census contains the names of parents for every person enumerated. It is probably the best state census ever taken in the United States. The\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/2224537\">FamilySearch<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>website recently updated or added an index to this unique state census, making it available for users at no charge. \u00a0The image shown below is part of the enumeration for George A. Freund of Davenport, Iowa. His wife&#8217;s name (not shown in this image and the mother of his sons Paul and George H.) is Kate Cawiezell. Fortunately the handwriting in this section of Davenport is pretty good. Searches should not be difficult.<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowafamilysearch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-171 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowafamilysearch1.jpg\" alt=\"1925iowafamilysearch\" width=\"846\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowafamilysearch1.jpg 846w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowafamilysearch1-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/2224537\"><em>FamilySearch<\/em> <\/a>only allows searches of this database based on the actual living people enumerated in the census, not the names of any of the parents. At least a search based upon the names of parents did not work for me on <em>FamilySeearch <\/em>when I searched for Kate Cawiezell.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1084\"><em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>has the same census<\/a> on their website with a search interface that does allow\u00a0for searches based on the names of parents. In this case a search for Kate Cawiezell as a mother didn&#8217;t turn up any unexpected surprises. But there are a few families where I would like to search this 1925 census based on the names of the parents&#8211;in an attempt to locate &#8220;missing children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowaancestry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowaancestry.jpg\" alt=\"1925iowaancestry\" width=\"974\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowaancestry.jpg 974w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1925iowaancestry-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can perform those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1084\">searches at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em><\/a>. I can&#8217;t perform them at\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/2224537\">FamilySearch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An informed user is a more effective user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1925 Iowa State Census contains the names of parents for every person enumerated. It is probably the best state census ever taken in the United States. The\u00a0FamilySearch\u00a0website recently updated or added an index to this unique state census, making it available for users at no charge. \u00a0The image shown below is part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,10],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com","tag-familysearch-searching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}