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From: "gayle" <>
Subject: Re: [INSTARKE] 1930 Census preparation
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:26:56 -0600
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I have had a chuckle about how difficult it will be to search the 1930 ...
back when I started as a genealogist well before Alex Haley penned "Roots"
most of the census had not been indexed. I would say the only about 1/3 1850
census was indexed, and we weren't even permitted to see the 1870 and 1880
census, much less the soundex. We all struggled through, however. How I
dreaded reading the several reels of Syracuse NY to just see if any of the
family happened to have lived there ...
thank goodness I was fortunate enough to live in a county where there was a
local library with a microfilm reader and a willingness to borrow the film.
(50 cents a reel rental at that time)

Good luck everyone with this new source to help us!

g2



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