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Subject: 1885 Iowa State Census Decatur County
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:25:54 EDT


Has anyone had any hits so far in the 1885 Iowa State Census for Decatur
County? I have finished Bloomington Twp. and Part of Burrell Twp. and will be
putting those pages up either late tonight or sometime tomorrow. Then I will
have to go back to the library and start copying again. I'll have more for
you on that next week hopefully. One of the things that I especially like
about the 1885 state census is that if the person was born in Iowa, it tells you
what county they were born in. That can be important when you are trying to
trace where a family lived in Iowa. Just follow the counties the children
were born in. I've also used it to match up a person with a fairly common
name. I found a person with the same name in Van Buren County in the 1885
Census and when I looked at the actual microfilm she was born in the same county
in Iowa as my relative so I knew it was most likely her.

I also have quite a few pages from the 1930 census for Decatur County copied
also and can start transcribing them as soon as I get a table of some sort
made up. It has several columns as most of you probably know and will take a
lot more work to get it all on one page.

I am also still trying to catch up with all of the hundreds of posts Nancee
Seifert has contributed. Hopefully I will get there some day. :))

Those of you who have contributed in the past and still haven't seen your
items placed on the website, please forgive me and have more patience with me.
My children and home have to come first and the last two months have been a
whirlwind with school activities and moving my mother-in-law from her home of
37 years to a home that had to be remodeled first before she moved.

What do you all think about a roll call?

Stacey Dietiker
CC Decatur Co Iowa Website

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