[or-roots] 1880 census online

[J & N Hemstreet]

This page has moved or no longer exists according to the posting.  Nancy
Hemstreet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: [or-roots] 1880 census online


> I am sure I have mentioned this before but you can search the 1880 Census
> online at;
>
>
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/searc
> h_census.asp"
>
> I would like to add to this information that the transcritions are
sometimes
> a little shakey so if you are sure you have an ancestor in that census and
> can't find him/her try playing with the spelling, I have mentioned in the
> past my puzzlement over where the heck my family was when the Census taker
> came around.
>
> Well it turns out they were practically next door but something got lost
in
> the translation, the one I was most interested in; my ggreat uncle Timothy
> Lockwood was two doors down from Alfred W. Reed the 1880 census taker for
> Gardiner Precinct which apparently covered everything west of Scottsburg
as
> I see no way to tell who was in town and who is on the farm.
>
> The reason I couldn't find him in the online index is that the soundex
> version didn't consider Rockwood a match, likewise it didn't find Ive
> Morrose a match for Ivy Morris and Milen Milven didn't turn up for Milan
> Melvan.
>
> So if you ancestor doesn't turn up just use your imagination, or if you
know
> someone else in that district you can use the next/previous houshold
button
> to scan through the whole list.
>
> Les C
>
>
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