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From: Elsi <>
Subject: Fw: [CENSUS] 5 November, 2004, Census Additions/Updates
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:55:34 -0600

>Resent-Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:44:53 -0700
>From: "Mags Lists" <>
>Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:45:53 -0500
>Subject: [USGW-Discuss] Fw: [CENSUS] 5 November, 2004, Census
>Additions/Updates
>
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>USGenWeb Census Project
>5 November, 2004, Census Additions/Updates,
>Week Ending November 4, 2004
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/nu/index.htm
>==========================================
>Please visit the USGenWeb Census Project at
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/ if you are
>interested in transcribing any county of any federal
>census records. A copy of all transcriptions done
>for this project are submitted to the appropriate
>state File Manager for inclusion in the USGenWeb
>Archives.
>==========================================
>The Original Census project announces its latest
>initiative. Completion of the First US Census
>transcription. This census was taken as required in
>the newly adopted US Constitution on the effective
>date of August 2, 1790. The new US Government tried
>to count all known residents in the territory that
>composed the United states at that time.
>
>"The jurisdiction of the original thirteen states
>canvassed an area of seventeen present states.
>Schedules survive for eleven of the thirteen
>original states: Connecticut, Maine (part of
>Massachusetts at the time), Maryland, Massachusetts,
>New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
>Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and
>Vermont. (Vermont became the fourteenth state early in
>1791 and was included in the census schedules).
>
>Enumerators were only required to make one copy of the
>census schedules to be held by the clerk of the district
>court in their respective area. In 1830, Congress passed a
>law requiring the return of all decennial censuses
>from 1790-1830. At this point it was discovered that many
>of the 1790 schedules had been lost or destroyed. Thus, we
>have about two-thirds of the original census from the time
>period. The 1790 census suffered district losses of Delaware,
>Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Virginia. However, some
>of the schedules for these states have been re-created using
>tax lists and other records. Virginia was eventually
>reconstructed from tax lists as well as some counties from
>North Carolina and Maryland."
>
>excerpted from the Ancestry.com 1790 Census headers.
>
> We are seeking to have all known schedules transcribed and
>made available for the public's use for free. If you can assist
>in this effort contact Earnie Breeding at
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>To submit a transcription Please visit
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/info/comp.htm
>for complete instructions.
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>For any questions regarding your submission progress
>please contact Janyce King at
>
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>For corrections to census records please contact
>Maggie Stewart at
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>NOTE ABOUT TRANSCRIPTION PROCESSING:
>------------------------------------
>The complete backlog of files has been reduced to less
>than 20 now. We are trying to work new submissions
>along with the older ones. Please feel free to contact
>Janyce King at to find out
>the status of your submission. Thanks again for your
>patience. Our year to date uploads are 495. Thanks
>to everyone involved for your time and dedication.
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>EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGES:
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>If you need an email address change please
>send your old and new eamil addresses to me
>at - If you are a transcriber
>please include the year/state/county you
>are transcribing so I get the information to
>the proper State Census Coordinator. Thanks!
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>Leave a Legacy for Genealogists in 1/2 to 1 hour/day
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/volunteer/legacy.htm
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>Help Support The United States
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/091101.htm
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>Census Kidz - This project is setup to help kids
>and teenagers wanting to transcribe a census for
>a project-or just for fun.
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/kidz/
>==========================================
>
>ALABAMA
>1850 St. Clair, District 40
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/al/stclair/1850/district40/
>Abstracted by Mary Palmer
>Second Transcriber Needed
>[For more information on St. Claire County, Alabama,
>Please visit the St. Claire County ALGenWeb page at
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~alstclai/]


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>Regards,
>Maggie Stewart
>==============
>Coordinator, USGenWeb Census Project
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/

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