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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: [APG] LDS 1880 census CDs
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:31:36 -0400


I was thinking of donating my LDS CD set for the 1880 census (which runs
fine on mp Windows XP), but just a couple of days ago I couldn't find a
family on Ancestry.com but found it easily using the CDs.

I was reminded by one of the recent messages on this topic that I read
somewhere that the Family History Library studied surname and their changes
and variations extensively and created an indexing system based on that
study.

Thus I can search for Pence on LDS disks and web site and returned will be
all Pence, Pense and Pentz listings You need to use wild cards to do that
at Ancestry.com.

And with the CDs if you search for Charles you will also get Charlie,
Charley, etc. And a search for Elizabeth will also get you Lizzie, Betsey
and many more.

So I decided to keep my CDs fro a while!

Richard Pence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Rothwell" <>
To: "Barbara Stock" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Looking for Home for 1880 US Census CD's from LDS


> It runs on my Vista with no tweaking. I am happy you mentioned it because
> it
> caused me to check it out against my list of "unreadables" on the 1880
> census. I had forgotten that I could do that. Of course, the whole thing
> is
> free online from familysearch.org so I don't know the value of me keeping
> it
> but I do.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Barbara Stock <>
> wrote:
>
>> I have the set of LDS 1880 census CD's for all states and will give them
>> to
>> any library or individual who covers shipping costs. Compatible with MS
>> Windows 95, 98, or NT operating systems. In original looseleaf notebook.
>> I
>> can't run on my current Vista system. Should be useful for facility with
>> an
>> older computer and operating system. Interested parties should email me
>> privately at . First come - first serve.
>>
>> Barbara Smallwood Stock, CG
>> Marietta, GA

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