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From: "Carolyn Feroben" <>
Subject: [CA-RECORDS-L] 1890 GREAT REGISTERS- COLLECTION
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:29:18 -0700


This message from the ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News
Vol. 3, No. 28, 12 July 2000,
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DATABASE REMOVED. At the request of Jean T. Gillett
, who wrote on behalf of the Genealogical
Association of Sacramento, California, the 1890 Great Register
for Sacramento County, California has been removed from RootsWeb.
Said Gillett, "A number of years ago we submitted our extraction
of the 1890 Great Register for Sacramento County, California for
free use on RootsWeb. This project was part of the California
State Genealogical Alliance (CSGA) effort to create a complete
collection of the 1890 Great Registers for the state of
California. The project has finally been completed and all
counties have submitted their data to CSGA.

"CSGA has entered into a contract with Heritage Quest to publish
the complete collection in hard-copy and CD. To avoid any
conflict with the CSGA statewide contract, our Board of
Directors has requested that the Sacramento County 1890 Great
Register file be removed from RootsWeb."
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SO----

If I am reading this correctly, the whole collection of State of California
1890 Great Registers will soon be available -not online, unfortunately, but
at least obtainable.


J. Caryle Parker had this to say in 1996- regarding this project ---(posted
to the NORCAL Genealogy
Index)http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/NORCAL%20index/

The California State Genealogical Alliance's 1890 Great
Register Project was proposed to assist genealogists
in
part to bridge the gap caused by the loss of the 1890
census schedules, by creating a statewide index to the
bound volume indexes deposited with the California
State
Library and microfilmed by the Family History Library.
Volunteers inputting the data in these records were
encouraged to check the great register indexes with
the
manuscript great register to check the accuracy of the
indexes and to add the moving and other notes added to
the manuscript great registers.
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So another huge data base of information will soon be available for our
California Research- Things are sure happening quickly- Pity poor Aunt
Susie who did all this research "the old fashioned way!"!

Best, Carolyn
CA-RECORDS
CA-HISTORY
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