More info from the 1930 census on the Gabriels

By 1930 it appears John & Doris are renting some part of a home located at 2500 Washington Street that is owned by a Katie Stock, a 62 year old widow, born in Iowa - with parents born in Germany.  John is listed as being a machinist in the "Tank - Machine" industry.  It appears they have been married for 6-7 years, or around 1923-1924.  John's father is listed as born in Germany, mother in Virginia, both of Doris's parents show born in Iowa.  John was listed as working in the machine, manufacturing industry in the 1925 census.

John's parents and other siblings show living in a house being rented for $35 just a few blocks away at 2714 Washington Street.  Theodore is age 50, wife Ethel 43, with children, Theodore L., age 16, Helen D., age 18, Willard M., age 13, Virginia M., age 10, Leon E., age 8, Jane A., age 6, Joyce J., age 3 4/12, and Wayne A. age 1 10/12.  All of the children are born in Iowa.  Theodore and Ethel show being married for 26 years - or approximately 1904.  Ethel's parents are listed as father born in Minnesota, mother in West Virginia.  Theodore senior is listed as being a painting contractor and Theodore junior is listed as a tile setter.

John Gabriel & Doris Emerson - 1925 Census

John and Doris Gabriel are listed in the 1925 Dubuque County, Iowa Census as living at 2804 Jackson Street both being born in Iowa.  They are renting the place they are living in for $30 per month and also show living in Iowa their entire lives.  Both John and Doris completed an 8th grade education. John's father is listed as Theodore Gabriel age 49 born in Germany.  His mother is listed as Edith McCraney, age 39 born in Iowa.  Doris's father is listed as Charles Emerson, age 53, born in Iowa, but for some reason her mother is listed as John Hargrave, age 49 born in Iowa.  Not sure why this is the case, the next person in the census also appears to have an error on their mother's name - looks like it lists Wm Stevens.  John is affiliated with the Methodist E. church and Doris is affiliated with the Catholic church.

New Random Selection - John R. Gabriel

I decided to select another person to conduct random genealogy on after seeing my blogger logon info and realizing I had not done one of these in quite some time.

I used a random number site to pick numbers at http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm

Using it gave me the random number 15, which is Iowa from an alphabetic list.

So I then used the same random number generator, giving me 42,9,34,19,10.  This lead me to the #42 county using FIPS code list from Wikipedia being Dubuque.  From there I logged on to Ancestry and browsed the 1930 census for Dubuque and selected the 9th township, Julien, the 34th enumeration district, the 19th image and the 10th line on the image, giving me John R. Gabriel.  John appears to be born in Iowa, age 25 making him born about 1905, with father born in Germany and mother born in Virginia.