MDWASHIN-L Archives

Archiver > MDWASHIN > 2000-08 > 0965703846


From: "Vera Poole" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN-L] Census soundex index
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:04:06 PDT


Thom, thanks a lot for taking your time to help me. It is appreciated.

Vera


----Original Message Follows----
From: "VermandoisMontgomery" <>
Reply-To:
To:
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN-L] Census soundex index
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:04:59 -0700

Let me see what available church records might have, and other sources, such
as possible newspaper records/obits etc. Give me about a week or so.
Thom
-----Original Message-----
From: Vera Poole <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, August 06, 2000 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN-L] Census soundex index


>Thom,
>
>I don't wish to bombard you with lookups but am hoping you could help by
>answering a couple of questions. I have been given some information from
>the 1800 and the 1840 Allegany County, MD census. Since it only seems to
>list how many males and/or females within a particular age group, how
would
>I go about finding my ancestor. I know he wasn't found in a cabbage patch
>but can't honestly confirm that!!! I live in Las Vegas and don't have
easy
>access to the census information unless someone gets it for me. What type
>of documents would list the parents of my ENOCH PRESTON who was born c.
1806
>in or near Frostburg, MD? I sent to the courthouse of Allegany Co, MD and
>got a transcribed copy of his marriage in 1833 and copies of deed book
index
>pages with the name PRESTON on them. ENOCH does not appear. Everyone is
so
>very nice and helpful as I search for my ancestors. I AM very new to this
>so please bear with me. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Vera
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "VermandoisMontgomery" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN-L] Census soundex index
>Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 11:30:01 -0700
>
>Searched through 1840 census, since that would be the first where your
>Thomas is MOST LIKELY to be found - and located one primary candidate:
From
>US FEDERAL CENSUS, 1840, MARYLAND; ALLEGANY COUNTY, 5th DISTRICT, Page
066:
>Thomas Philips, one male under age 5, 1 male 20-30, 1 female under age 5,
2
>females 5-10, 1 female 20-30. One person engaged in mining. Allegany
County
>Washington County and Frederick County are all in the same original
>"neighborhood."
>
>Thomas Philips of Washington County is aged 50-60, and has no child in
your
>man's age bracket, and Thomas J. Philips of Baltimore County is aged
40-50,
>also with no son in your man's age bracket. I do have the 1840 data on
both
>of those if you want it.
>Thom
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
>
>
>==== MDWASHIN Mailing List ====
>If you have Sturm family members in your ancestry, you might look
>for them online at the FamilyHart Database. The url is:
>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~padutch/familyhart/
>
>
>==============================
>Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time.
>RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists:
>http://pml.rootsweb.com/
>


==== MDWASHIN Mailing List ====
If you have Sturm family members in your ancestry, you might look
for them online at the FamilyHart Database. The url is:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~padutch/familyhart/


==============================
Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project:
Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/


________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

This thread: