Thanks Kathy,  That's what I have been trying to do...and it is tedious but may 
garner some results.  Many farms were broken up to build individual homes or 
tracts of homes and streets were not named.  I was looking for a map or 
coordinates of how and where the census takers began their visits in a 
particular area.  I can see that isn't answer. 

Thanks to those who answered and if any others ideas pop up, please send them 
on.

Aurelia 




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Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 10:06:41 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] How To Determine an Actual Site from Census?

If there is an existing old home in the area that is associated with a family 
name try to find that family in the census and sometimes it will help you narrow 
down the location of other families.  If you cross check across the census years 
you can sometimes figure out how the census taker was traveling.  If you can get 
a fix on one family in the area of your family look for them on later censuses 
to see if road names are finally assigned.  It may or may not get you an exact 
location for your family but it can certainly narrow down the area.  We still 
have a lot of historic properties here in Charlotte County and I've had good 
luck using this method.  It's tedious but worth it (but isn't that the 
definition of most research?!).

Kathy

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