finding ancestors by address only

[Gee44]

only have a post card to go on, name cook address archdeacon lane, leicester

[PaulineJ]

No idea of year?

[Gadget]

If they were there in 1908, you could try the  1911 census by address on FindMyPast. However, you might think that this is one of  those expensive sites.

Gadget

[Gadget]

If they were there in 1908, you could try the  1911 census by address on FindMyPast. However, you might think that this is one of  those expensive sites.

Gadget

Probably you could even find them on the 1911 by just searching the usual way by entering the details that you have.


Gadget

[Gee44]

Thanks. It looks likely then only the genealogy sites could help. Hope they were still there in 1911.

[KGarrad]

Try FamilySearch?
It's free, but you have to register.

You can search the 1911 (and any other census) by name, and check each "hit".

Do you know the family stayed in Archdeacon Lane?
Or are you making an assumption?


Alternatively, have you tried your local library and/or Record Office?
I can get free access to Ancestry (at my library) and FindMyPast (at Manx Museum)

[Gee44]

Post card address is M? cook 7 Archdeacon Lane, posted 22 December 1908. I’ll try family search. Not even sure this is a relative but was in family possession so assuming

[Gadget]

Post card address is M? cook 7 Archdeacon Lane, posted 22 December 1908. I’ll try family search. Not even sure this is a relative but was in family possession so assuming

I did that yesterday and it takes a long time to sift through as you have little info- no first name age/birth date, etc.. It would be better to go to a public library and use  Ancestry/FindMyPast there. I found it within seconds on these.

Gadget

[ShaunJ]

Here's the family in 1901 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS4J-XYW