One of my assignments for my genealogy class required us to look up our particular families in different censuses. I perused the Ancestry.com website until I was able to find Alex, now the head of a household, in the 1920 United States Federal Census. By this point in time he was 25 and married to his first wife, Mittie Leone Barnett, then 21 years old.
Through this census I was able to verify Alex's immigration year as 1903, just like the Ellis Island website said. However, not only did I gain some more information about Alex, but I gained that his wife, Mittie, and her parents were all born in Ohio. A digital copy of the actual page of the census taken in 1920 with Alex's household listed is pictured below.
I decided to try other censuses for more information on Alex's household. I searched the 1930 United States Federal Census and, with a little luck, found him and his family on a census much more detailed than the 1920 one. I found that I was much more attached to this document more than any other because not only were Alex and Mittie listed on it, but both of their daughters, Emma and Barbara (my grandmother), were on there, as well. The following is a digital copy of the actual census taken with Alex's household's information on it, as well as a translation of the information on the census:
Alex R. Hamilton - Head - White - 35 - Est. Birth Year abt 1895 - Born in England
Mittie L. Hamilton - Wife - White - 31 - Est. Birth Year abt 1899
Emma L. Hamilton - Daughter - White - 8 - Est. Birth Year abt 1922
Barbra M. Hamilton - Daughter - White - 3 yrs. 9 months - Est. Birth Year abt 1926
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