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From: Singhals <>
Subject: Re: Where do you buy transcribed census cd's????
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:20:20 -0500
References: <3c66acdc.95892428@news>, <3C62E919.9CA6DC50@erols.com>, <3c680edb.10409057@news>


(G) Good choice. If I may recommend it, the USGenWeb Census
project, housed at www.rootsweb.com, will provide spreadsheet
templates for use in return for the finished product. And the
USGenWeb Census project gets more attention than anyone's private
URL.

Cheryl

dnc in tennessee wrote:
>
> Maybe I'll just pick a old census, 1860 or so.
>
> I'll take my time and do it right. And when I am done make
> it public domain so no money hungry company can charge for
> it.
>
> Well, who would buy it if it were free is a better way to
> put it.
>
> On The Date Of Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:52:41 -0500, Singhals
> <> Wrote The Followng:
>
> ->dnc in tennessee wrote:
> ->
> ->> PS How much time do you think it would take me to fully
> ->> transcribe the 1900 Hamilton County TN census?
> ->
> ->How fast can you type? The 1880 CD reports nearly 24,000
> people
> ->in Hamilton county (which includes a moderately large
> city). I
> ->would assume the population rose by at least 50% over the
> next 20
> ->years.
> ->
> ->It took me over one work-month to key in "most" of the
> data for a
> ->county of roughly 12,000 on the 1850 (I omitted the
> literacy and
> ->schooling columns since they didn't matter to my purpose
> in
> ->creating the database). Another couple work-weeks to
> clean up
> ->places in the beginning where I'd used ?? for
> difficult-to-read
> ->items.
> ->
> ->Cheryl

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