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From: Diane McInnes <>
Subject: [INMONROE] Re: INMONROE-D Digest V01 #219
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:33:31 -0800
In-Reply-To: <200110290702.f9T72NT25722@lists2.rootsweb.com>


At 12:02 AM 10/29/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:02:54 -0500
>From: Randi Richardson <>
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>Subject: Re: [INMONROE] Re: Census Lookups
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>>The 1840, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 are the Heritage Quest CD's
>>of the microfilmed census records for Monroe County and I purchased those
>>same years for Lawrence Co. The 1850 is Broderbund's Census Microfilm
>>Records on CD (#302) for all of IN, so it is indexed. I just recently
>>purchased the LDS 1880 National Census Transcriptions - like you, an
>>amazing amount of work and being indexed has allowed me to find family
>>members who were in other states, etc. The challenge, at times, is
>>trying to figure out how the enumerators spelled the name and then how
>>the transcribers would have read the name, etc...'cause some families I
>>know are in there, but I can't locate them by any spelling variation that
>>I can think of!
>
>Diane,
>
>Does the 1900 and 1920 census have an index on the same CD with the census
>information? I know there is a separate index to 1910. Do the CDs
>consist of digitized census images? Anything has to be faster than
>working with the Ancestry.com data. It seems to take about five minutes
>to view a page.
>
>Randi


Hi Randi,

These are digitized census images, taken from the microfilms at National
Archives. They are not indexed, just arranged by twp, as the enumerators
recorded. I do not have an index for any of them. Who has put out the
1910 index? Is it on CD? The digitized census CD's are SO much easier to
read than reading on microfilm, as you know having the earlier years on CD
- you can enlarge areas, make a negative view to see if easier to read,
print it off, etc.....but there is nothing to make very faint ink show any
clearer! They are a bit pricy, although I believe Heritage Quest is having
a special until the end of Oct of about $12/CD (this is for one county per
year only - sometimes it is on 2 CD's - so you have to buy both to get
complete county - just depends on where the 'break' was on microfilm
between counties. But financially compared to my having to travel to the
US, rent car, rent motels, meals, etc, to do my genealogy, it is wonderful
to sit in my home in Canada and look through census info! Still will need
to do hands-on work at some stage in Monroe County, but I can do a lot of
preliminary work at home first!

Diane

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