That is correct. I don't think they do this up north. Route 6 is really Rural Route 6 or RR6 which is a MAIL route not a street name. There are still places that have rural routes. My old address in FL was Route 6, Box 4 Plant City, FL. My house was on Quail Meadow Road.
michele -----Original Message----- From: Bain Family Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Having been raised in a rural area myself, my thought is that the "Route 6" is probably the post office route and not the name of the road. The post office probably divided up the area into several routes with each route assigned a mail carrier. The mail carrier for each route knew the names in each household and delivered mail accordingly. It probably has absolutely nothing to do with the name of the road or highway. I lived on Route 3 and there was no road or highway of that name. It was just the name of the route assigned to the mail carrier for our area. Lana -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Ron, You said... "The problem I have with your format is that to find everyone who lived in Broad Street, one would have to do a Detailed Search, whereas I only have to set the Master Location List to read from left to right and I can find them all grouped together." I guess part of the problem is that almost 100% of my research is in the very rural areas of the deep south (MS, LA, AL, GA, NC, SC). I honestly don't have many addresses for people. They were rarely used on the census records. Things like draft cards give rural routes, like Route 6, Hattiesburg (they usually didn't bother to say which box number. Even if they did, it would be virtually impossible to know where Route 6, Box 14 was. There are no records for that sort of thing and those routes are long gone. Also, Hattiesburg is in Forrest Co and Route 6 is in Lamar Co which of course makes no sense. Michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4024 - Release Date: 11/18/11 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
