Sometimes you just have to be patient! I have never been able to find the Churas family in the 1920 census. According to my mother, they moved to Portage County, Wisconsin sometime during that year. The 1920 census was the only time the census takers were asked to use January as the date. It seemed possible that weather was an issue: the family might have left Chicago before the census taker arrived and settled in Portage County after the census taker had visited the farm.
The explanation was much simpler, however. The indexer misread the name as "Chuvas" instead of "Churas." This mistake meant the name would not turn up when I looked for a closer spelling.
How did I find it? FamilySearch did, not me. They were living on Throop Street in Chicago's Fourth Ward.
* 52 Ancestors: Mistake
