New resource: Gannett, a free website to find US census records by location
For years, I've wanted a way to find Enumeration Districts across different censuses by location. I have now built a tool called Gannett to do this for larger US cities from 1880–1940. Given an address or coordinates, you can jump right to the population schedule pages for the correct enumeration district in FamilySearch or Ancestry. Then, you can choose a different year and get the ED for the given location in the new year. In most cases, you can also get a textual description of the enumeration district's boundaries, which is helpful for researching the districts themselves.
The data I've used for this came from the Urban Transitions Project at Brown University. You can learn more on the About page. The biggest limitation of the site is that the Brown data only covers certain cities in certain years. As such, this resource makes working with EDs much easier in the common cases of larger cities, but it definitely does not replace the comprehensive SteveMorse.org ED Finder.
If you find any errors in the data or bugs with using the site, please let me know! I'd also like to hear whether the site works well for people across different platforms/devices, and how it could be improved. If you have ideas on how to spread the word about this, I'm all ears.
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@Nick Kocharhook Thanks. I'll check it out.
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