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Born in Greece or Turkey - 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1945 South Dakota State Census

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South Dakota State Census documents for the years 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1945 are available through various organizations on the internet.   Hint:  If you can't find your ancestors in one database, don't forget to check other local or genealogy company databases.  They each do their own indexing and searches may have very different results.  Also, these companies don't all have the same contracted access to a group of documents. I have included results from Ancestry.com , FamilySearch.org , and MyHeritage.com Detailed descriptions for each census can be found on the FamilySearch Wiki -  https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/South_Dakota_Census Ancestry.com   Year 1905 - -  12 born in Greece / 21 born in Turkey* Year 1915 - -  490 born in Greece / 44 born in Turkey* Year 1925 - - 304 born in Greece / 33 born in Turkey* Year 1935 - - 241 born in Greece / 48 born in Turkey* Year 1945 - - 147 born in Greece / 21 born in Turk...

"Fugitive Greek Run Down" article, New York Times, August 7, 1911

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Published in  The New York Times,  August 7, 1911 FUGITIVE GREEK RUN DOWN ---------- Detective Ditsch Gets Clue in Longshoremen’s Tale of a Swindle. ---------- A message from Lead City, S. D., was received at Police Headquarters yesterday, asking for the arrest of John Papas, a Greek, wanted in Lead City for grand larceny.  Papas was known to have bought a ticket for Greece, the message stated, and the number of this ticket was given.  He had left Lead City on July 20, and therefore might be expected to be in New York now. Detective Ditsch, armed only with the meager description of the Greek given in the dispatch, set out to find Papas.  He went down into West Street, hoping by accident to strike on his Greek.  He had almost given up hope when a couple of longshoremen told him as a good joke how a Greek had been swindled out of $30 and his watch.  It was the old pocket-book trick.  The Greek had picked it up, and finally had bee...