Index to 1920 Census Shown above is the index record for the family of Solomon and Carrie Tartasky, living at 1506 Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn. He claimed he was born in "Lita, Russia." Lita is the Yiddish word for Lithuania. Carrie was born in "Austria, Gal," meaning Galicia, which before World War I was a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Living with them were Carrie's children by an earlier marriage, Nathan and Regina Blum (for some reason the card says Nathan was a Daughter). Also with them was Solomon's brother, Meyer. The "T632" at the top of the card is the Soundex code for the name "Tartasky." Soundexing is a scheme to index words by how they sound rather than how they are spelled. The United States takes a census of its population every 10 years. After 73 years, it releases to the public the information gathered from the census. The most-recent census publicly available is the 1920 census, released in 1993. In 2003, the 1930 census will be made available. Locating people in certain censuses is easy because they are indexed. This is true of the 1900 and 1920 census. The 1910 and 1930 censuses are not indexed. Not only must you know the address where a person lived in unindexed censuses, but you must also know the Enumeration District (E.D.) because that is how the census is sequenced. This makes these censuses virtually useless although some interest groups have created E.D. maps for certain areas of the country.