PROVO, Utah, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Looking for invitees for this year’s Halloween party? For a spooky selection, look no further than the U.S. and UK census collections on Ancestry.com. As the world’s largest online family history resource, Ancestry.com is the only source for the complete digitized and indexed U.S. Federal Census collection from 1790 […]
At one time, the U.S. Federal Census included a mortality schedule enumerating the individuals who had died in the previous year. These documents exist for the years 1850 through 1880. Although many of the original documents reside in various archives, a good number have been microfilmed and are available through NARA - and now of […]
New book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Calloway County, Missouri 1860 Federal Census Volume 18
Kenneth Weant extracted the entire 1860 census of Calloway County, Missouri. Included were 12, 905 names. Mr. Weant states that the Federal Census had an undercount of about 40%. He recommends that researchers also check the special census […]
New Book Announcement:
the full title of this book is: Calloway County, Missouri Special Census Records for 1848, 1856 & 1860 Volume 17. Mr. Weant previously has done 16 other books dealing with Callaway County Records.
A number of special censuses for Callaway County, Missouri have been located at the Missouri States Archives. These population schedules […]
As I mentioned in a post earlier today, I find that I use both Ancestry.com as well as HeritageQuest Online when doing census research. There a several reasons for this.
First - the digitizing was done by two totally different companies. A little history might be in line here. I was working for Heritage Quest when […]
Following is an excerpt from an article that fills in a few more details about Ancestry.com’s census project. They are getting a lot of much-deserved good press out of the release of the 1910 every-name index. I was on Ancestry’s site until into the morning hours this morning working on Hubbard genealogy. Having access to […]
A bit of humor from Tami Glatz…
Your blog this morning about the transcription of the 1910 census made me chuckle remembering an incident that occurred at our Family History Center a short while ago. A patron came in very upset and wanted to know if he could see the actual images of the 1880 census […]
Upon turning on my computer this morning, I had two announcements from Ancestry.com - both proclaiming that the indexing of the Federal Census records was done. One actually mentions that the 1910 every-name census index is now complete. I blogged extensively about this accomplishment last night - pointing out the difficulties surrounding this index.
In going […]
Ancestry.com has posted an every-name index to the 1910 U.S. Federal Census. The posting of this index completes Ancestry.com’s every-name index project for all censuses currently available to the public - 1790 through 1930.
Folks - this is really big news. The 1910 census microfilm from which the digital images were made was by far […]