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Coming in October 2008!
Looking Into 1860 U.S. Federal Census Records
by Judy Rosella Edwards
There is no such thing
as the census. Do you know why?
I wrote this report
after realizing how many transcribers omit crucial information that researchers
need in order to make sense of all those names and numbers. Many of the
relationships we spend hours searching for are missing from the typed or
digitized census information we use every day. Worse yet, novice researchers may
not know the information existed but was omitted by a typist.
So why use a transcribed census? The original
hand-written copies are stunningly beautiful to look at – but nearly impossible
to read!
In this report, I
explain why that information matters and how to locate it and use it to make
your genealogical research so much more meaningful.
I explain 33 aspects of the 1860 U.S. Federal
Census:
- Secret 1 There is No Such Thing as A
Census
- Secret 2 Page Numbers
Count
- Secret 3 Who Was
Home?
- Secret 4 Who Was the
Enumerator?
- Secret 5 Enumerator
Assistants
- Secret 6 Post
Office
- Secret 7 Census
Districts
- Secret 8 Household
Numbers
- Secret 9 Visit
Numbers
- Secret 10 Names
- Secret 11 Connections Between
Names
- Secret 12 Who Lives
Here?
- Secret 13 Recording
Ages
- Secret 14 Infant Birthdates
- Secret 15
Gender
- Secret 16 Color
- Secret 17
Profession
- Secret 18 Value of Real
Estate
- Secret 19 Value of Personal
Estate
- Secret 20 Place of
Birth
- Secret 21 Married within the
year
- Secret 22 School
Attendance
- Secret 23
Illiteracy
- Secret 24 The Largest Collection of
Information: Deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper,
convict
- Secret 25 Page
Totals
BEYOND THE CENSUS
- Secret 26 Census as a Migration
Map
- Secret 27 Immigration
records
- Secret 28 Military
Records
- Secret 29
Biographies
- Secret 30 Putting 1860 Into
Perspective
- Secret 31 Marriage
Records
- Secret 32 Death
Records
- Secret 33 Playing the Matching
Game
I also include my personal secrets for:
- Collecting and storing research so I can find it again.
- "Genealogy on a Shoestring" - how to do research without spending a
lot of money!
- "Bringing the LDS Library to You" - you don't have to go to
Utah!
- "Documenting Sources" the EASY way!
- What's a university archive and why do you need to know about
them?
- "Locating Old Newspapers" - unearth some unusual places where old
newspapers are archived!
- "Locating Places" - how to find where that old church used to be
before it was torn down decades ago!
- "Free Online Searches" includes a hot tip you may not be aware
of.
Don’t miss the
clickable items scattered throughout.
Email judy@judyrosellaedwards.com today to be notified when this book will be available.
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Genealogy
is possibly the fastest growing pastime in the United States. According
to one survey, an estimated 73 percent of the U.S. population
is interested in their family history, or actively researching their
personal genealogy.
As
of
September 2007, 3.5 million family trees have been created on
Ancestry.com, 300 million profiles have been added to those trees, and
2.5 million photos have been uploaded. This one genealogy site has
800,000 subscribers, making it one of the largest online paid
membership sites in the United States.
It
is
quite likely that your reader knows a little something about genealogy!
Wouldn’t you like to write as if you do?
The media, especially
through film, has focused on certain
genealogical facts to such an extent that writers assume those facts
apply to every family. It makes anyone who has ever researched their
family history cringe!
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Copyright 2008
Judy Rosella Edwards. All rights reserved.
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