[#24608] Hjelp med 1910 census i USA, Iowa, Kristoffer Olsen

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Hei:-) Kristoffer/Christoffer Olsen bor i 1905/06 i Iowa. Adressen er vanskelig å lese, men det ser ut som Odrermouth, Teedeth 6e, Java (Iowa), Bot/Bet 4, USA. Kristoffer er født i Norge i 1853 og emigrerte i 1903. Håper noen kan hjelpe meg å slå opp i 1910/20 tellingen og finne ham! På forhånd takk:-) Anne

[Gjest Roger Thauland]

If translated, i could try; i can access both. Roger.

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Hi Roger:-) Kristoffer/Christoffer Olsen lives in Iowa in 1905/06. It's difficult to read the address but it seems to be somthing like: Odrermouth, Teedeth 6e, Java (Iowa), Bot/Bet 4, USA. Kristoffer is born in 1853. He emigrated in 1903. I really hope you can find him in the cenesuses. Thank you! Anne

[Gjest Roger Thauland]

Vell, took a quick look, no luck; but he may have moved or not been indexed; and so to focus on a specific area requires knowing what that address really is; can someone post a link to the image so 'everyone' can offer suggestions? Java might be Tama in Tama county?? Roger.

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Hi Roger.I'm sending you a copy of the address. Hopefully the e-mail address I found works:-)Anne

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Hei:-)Adressen jeg ikke klarer å tyde ligger på Arkivforumet, innlegg nr.24699.Håper noen kan hjelpe meg! Anne

[Gjest Tor Rustad]

Anne; you says 'he lives in Iowa..' Are you sure it's Iowa?I had a look at all the counties and cities in Iowa in my Road Atlas and could't fine any place matching the address (or similar) on the scanned image. (Maybe the address isn't correct today; but County / and / or city shuld be enough to fiond it in the Road Atlas)If you got other parts of that image it might help us to identify the letters.

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

I'm sorry, but this is the only place in the documents where his address is listed:-(Anne

[Gjest Roger Thauland]

I've changed isp's and have less spam with my new email address which i never publiclly reveal; posting a larger amount of the letter will help as it is necessary to see how captial and lower case letters were formed; that 'dot' over one letter suggests an 'i'. 6e might be an old postal zone code or apartment # or maybe the '4' is that, (i suspose i'am confused!!), which suggests a city of some size; you might consider sending the entire image to the LDS lib in SLC; they have some really 'practiced eyes'. ..how were addresses formatted when this letter was written? Roger.

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Hi:-) Thank you for putting all this effort into this! I've got a larger scanned image in Arkivforumet. Here's the link: Lenke Anne

[Gjest Jan Peter Wiborg]

Hvor kom denne Kristoffer Olsen fra?Jan Peter

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Han var født og oppvokst i Oslo.Anne

[Gjest Tor Rustad]

Jeg registrerer at dette temaet også ligger på Arkivforumet (24371 og 24732)Deler av det jeg her skriver ligger nå også der:Det er nok mange av oss som har vurdert Java; men jeg mener det må utelukkes: 1:Jeg finner ingen steder på Java med de 'engelske' endingene 'th' som synes sikre på kopien.2: Det står dessuten USA på kopien.3: Og USA hadde uansett ikke fotfeste på Java; hollenderne var der fra 1500-tallet og frem til japanerne tok området i 1942.Selv om ingen av oss har (sikkert) identifisert adressen til Iowa, kan kanskje en lite engelspråklig person skrevet det som Java??Dernest; som Roger antyder i (9) ser det jo klart ut som om det ord nr. 2 Teedeth e.l. må være en gateadresse.

[Gjest Roger Thauland]

I've asked the Clermont public library for info about the Jan 1 1905 state census--i believe it was filmed, but i'am not sure about how to access. Roger.

[Gjest Tor Rustad]

You'll find this topic also at #24732

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

Hi:-) I've managed to find Kristoffer Olsen in Clermont, Fayette Co, Iowa in 1906. He rents a room (?) at Ole Paulsen's. Can someone please do a look-up in the 1910 census and see if Kristoffer still lives there? Thank you! Anne

[Gjest Roger Thauland]

Did not find him, Ole has a hardware store. You might try county death records. i suspose. Roger.

[Gjest Anne Arnesen]

OK:-) Thank you for trying! Anne