USA 1890 Census

[shellyesq]

There are Chicago city directories, including 1885 & 1892, available here:  http://www.chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools

[Just Kia]

These ones are ancestor siblings, Ben
I'm spending more time on my Wimbush's than my direct lines at the moment - leaving all those brickwalls to rest for a couple weeks, see if they magically fall down when I next have a poke at them

Erato, there's defintely some chance. Will try to seek out the voter regsistrations and have a look through - thanks for the idea.

Will have a look at the link, Shelly, thanks.

[Erato]

Also, FamilySearch has Cook County [Chicago] births [1871-1915], deaths [1878-1922], and marriages [1871-1920].

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

[coombs]

I think some American voter registrations give occupation

[shellyesq]

Footnote.com has a number of directories for St. Louis.  It's a subscription site, but you can see a portion of the entry without subscribing if you use their "Quick Look" feature.  It appears that there's a Frank A. Wimbush in the 1893 & 1896 directories, an A. Frank Wimbush in 1898 directory, and Ambrose F. Wimbush in 1899, 1902, & 1906.  There are also other possible entries for John & Thomas Wimbush, and other later years for Ambrose.  http://www.footnote.com/documents/100521904/city_directories_st_louis/

You also might want to check the following databases for Missouri/St. Louis, which seem to have possible matches to this family -

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/default.asp
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/#search
http://www.slpl.org/slpl/gateways/article240117800.asp

[coombs]

Only small fragments of the 1890 US census survive. The returns for about 6000 people out of a population of about 75 million at the time survive.

[Just Kia]

Thank you for all your help.
I've found them on the links shelly gave, so they were in St Louis rather than Chicago in the mid 1890s.

[coombs]

City directories are a good substitute to the census.

[tkbwimbush]

Hello,

My name is Thomas Barry Wimbush, my father is ^(*) and my grandfather was Ambrose. Our family came from Chicago and St. Lois. What can I tell you to help you in your search.


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