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From: "Sharyl" <>
Subject: Re: [IAALLAMA-L] Volunteer Needed
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:09:33 -0800
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Hi Pat,
Have you received any offers to proof-read for you? I am one of the Allamakee Co. coordinators, and I will help you out if you don't get other offers. I believe that there was one reply that came thru the Allamakee-List and I forwarded your request to two others who had previously told me they would like to help out with a census. Hopefully they sent you an e-mail.
Regards,
Sharyl Ferrall
Chickaloon, Alaska
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From: PJU
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Subject: [IAALLAMA-L] Volunteer Needed


Is anyone willing to help to interpret and proofread some transcriptions
of the 1854 state-census of Allamakee County? Some parts of some letters
are missing (faded) so, for example, it is difficult to distinguish between
the letters "h" and "k", "n" and "r", etc.

As some background information, I have volunteered to transcribe the
1854 census under the auspices of the <www.us-census.org> genealogy
site. That has been tough going as parts of some names are not totally
legible. I have never been in Allamakee and thus am between a rock
and a hard place in recognizing what might be easy for a long-time native
of the area. I propose to e-mail a copy of the census and request that
a viewer skim down the list and tell me what might be a correct name for
those that are in doubt. I have paper copies (from microfilm) of the 12
townships
in existence during 1854. Each has about 100 to 150 names. Some copies are
very legible; others are not. I suspect that an eye-ball skim of each township
would take about 10-minutes with some other time required to type suggested
interpretations and return the e-mail. I would them review the hand-written
copy
to determine if the suggestion really matches the actual writing. If anyone has
old plat maps for any township, their review might be easier.

So far, I've completed Franklin, Jefferson and Lafayette Townships.
Lansing is the one that is now driving me up-the-walls (so to speak).

All I can offer in return is to add your name, as a proof-reader, to the header
of each township as it will appear on the Internet.

If you're wondering why someone in Florida is transcribing an Iowa census,
it is because several people in Waukon helped me to find some ancestral
information (my mother, an O'Brien, was born in French Creek in1892), so
I'm now trying to return the favor for someone else.
........PAT (Florida)





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