May 19, 2013

Massachusetts, 1850 Census Microfilm Records

This data set includes an index to the 1850 census of the actual records themselves — in the census taker's own handwriting! The index references more than 385,000 Massachusetts heads-of-household counted in this especially valuable census...

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May 18, 2013

North Carolina, 1850 Census Microfilm Records

This data set includes an index to the 1850 census of the actual records themselves — in the census taker's own handwriting! The index references more than 140,000 North Carolina heads-of-household counted in this especially valuable census...

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May 17, 2013

Pennsylvania, 1850 Census Microfilm Records

Often referred to as the first modern census, the 1850 census employed improved techniques for collecting information. For the first time, enumerators were provided printed instructions that explained their responsibilities, census procedures, and the intent behind census questions. These instructions accounted for a greater degree of accuracy in the census record...

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May 16, 2013

Indiana Census Records: 1860

With the information provided in the census (names, ages, birthplaces and more, depending on the census year), you can immediately fill in holes in your family tree. Censuses help you pinpoint a family's location at a particular time. When you know where a family lived, you know where to look for other important records, such as county records of births, marriages, and deaths...

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May 15, 2013

Kentucky, 1850 Census Microfilm Records

This data set includes an index to the 1850 census of the actual records themselves — in the census taker's own handwriting! The index references almost 192,000 Kentucky heads-of-household counted in this especially valuable census...

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Genealogy: Search for a grave leads to a family he never knew

Bill Shehan started out looking for his sister. He found a family. 

A mourning dove calls as he tells the story, seated on a wicker chair on a porch outside his home on Waverly Road. It isn’t an easy story. Shehan, now 73, was placed in an orphanage with his brother and sister after their parents divorced when he was a year old. His brother, who was older, was adopted. His little sister, Mary Jane, died in 1951 at age 10. 

Shehan remembered the open coffin, her pigtails and her blue dress. He remembered the cemetery was on a hill outside the town where his father was from, Erwin, Tenn. Those were memories that didn’t lend themselves to casual conversation. “Sad memories,” he said...

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