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From: "Charla" <>
Subject: RE: [MIWASHTE] Early Census
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:48:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000001c53337$8bdf4410$29382844@TRIPP>


Thank you for sending to the list, too, especially since I had forwarded
someone else's query and didn't need the answer myself. However, I read
your response anyway, and I'm delighted that these census records exist
and that they can be rented at the FHC.

Thanks for your response,
Charla Kurtz
List manager -


-----Original Message-----
From: Jan E. Tripp [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:44 PM
To:
Subject: [MIWASHTE] Early Census

The 1827, 1834, and 1845 census has been microfilmed by the Genealogical
Society of Utah and can be rented through your local Family History
Library.
Here are the film numbers you will need to order the films:

Census of Washtenaw County, Michigan 1827-1834 955,813 Item 1
Census of Washtenaw County, Michigan 1845 955,813 Item 2

This is considerably cheaper than purchasing the films outright.

Each census is somewhat different than the 1840 census. Of interest to
you
is that the 1845 census records all males over 21. I am not sure if all
of
the township enumerations survive but the originals are at the Bentley
Historical Library at the University of Michigan. Perhaps one of our
knowledgeable Washtenaw County researchers will know.

The 1827 census was a basic head count taken as of the first Monday in
June
1827. The 1834 census noted "the ages of free white males by periods of
five
years up to 20 years of age, and above 20 years, by periods of ten
years, up
to 100 years, and all over 100 years." Also, the enumerators were to
ascertain the names of all family heads, the number of white persons
deaf,
dumb, or blind, plus the number and sex of all free and bound colored
persons. To be excluded were Indians not taxed (not members of some
tribe).
The 1845 census recorded all names of all males over 21 years of age;
"distinguishing the number of males and females; those under 10 years of
age; those of 10 and under 21, those of 21 and under 45; those of 45 and
under 75; those over 75; and, also, the number of deaf and dumb; the
number
of insane; and the umber of all colored persons."

I would be tempted to look at the original census images even thought I
"knew" the on-line was completely accurate. I would like to know who was
in
the neighborhood and something about the visitation order which a
database
might omit.

Jan
Ann Arbor


-----Original Message-----
From: Charla [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:19 PM
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Subject: [MIWASHTE] FW: Early census



-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:58 PM
To:
Subject: Early census


I have just joined this list so if I am asking something already covered

recently please bear with me.
I am trying to piece together a Woodworth family that moved to Salem in

1826. I have found the father, Constant, in the 1834 and 1845 census
index
on
the Ancestry.com website, and also a couple other Woodworth's living
neaby
that
could be possible sons. What I would like to know is this: do these
early

state censuses list head of household and enumerate the wife and
children by

age and sex (similar to the Federal census of 1840)? Or are they just
a
list
of head of household? I found the microfilm for sale on Heritage
Quest,
but
don't want to purchase it if there is no further information than what
I
found on AncestryPlus.

Has anyone used these early (1927, 1934, 1945) Washtenaw census films?

Sherrye











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