Geography not a strong suit

[screwlooose]

Im having problems with locations of families. I have the family in the 1910,20,30 and 1940 census, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But I am also getting all the family members with same initals ect showing up in directories from Ocean city New Jersey.
One example 1930 and 1940 Census, Minerva Stanford and Husband Frank R Stanford are in Upper Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania.
 However they also show in a directory in 1937 as being in Ocean City New Jersey. The same for her father, he is showing up in directories for Camden and Ocean city New Jersey as well as Upper Darby in the census.
I am sure they are the same but need a bit of clarification

[fastfusion]

screwloose>>>


please read >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Darby_Township,_Delaware_County,_Pennsylvania

then it will all make sense....     it is like UK  Penns is state{ie uk county] then Delaware is like a registration district, then town ie Upper Darby......     
so eg Yatesbury, Calne, Wiltshire.     then  phone books are like UK too    in a sense...   so one has South eastern if in Kent  ...... or mid western might be the Midlands....    try google maps and enter the names
 

[screwlooose]

Thx for the reply, but im sorry, it made no sense to me. I read about Upper Darby, but my question is that Upper Darby and New Jersey are a fair distance from each other, or so it seems, so Im not sure how the family is showing up in both places.
thx

[screwlooose]

OK makes a bit more sense now, about 58 miles drive from one to the other. Still not sure about why but maybe one was a business address and one was residential. Anyway not that far apart that it doesn't make sense.
Duane

[Erato]

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, is only  ~95 km [straight line distance] from Ocean City, New Jersey.  This is not a long distance by US standards.  Ocean City, as the name suggests, is a beach town, and Wikipedia describes it as a "family-oriented seaside resort."  Possibly, your people had a summer house there and spent part of the year in Upper Darby and part in Ocean City.

Delaware is not "like a registration district."  It is a county within the state of Pennsylvania and Upper Darby is a town in that county.  Delaware County, Pennsylvania should not be confused with the state of Delaware which is a whole different ball of wax.

[Rudolf H B]

Yes Erato,

like working in New York City & living in Miami, Florida ... today by plane, in earlier times by rail.


... or by ship, my gt gt granduncle was working in Sydney, AUS and living in London, UK (around 1870)!

Regards
Rudolf