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Subject: Re: [NCROOTS] Census Lookup Request Please
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:10:39 EST

In a message dated 11/1/99 8:29:53 PM Central Standard Time,
writes:

<< Do you have to buy say like the 1880's
(whole census) or can you just buy part of the census that interest you? >>

You can go to your library and Xerox only those pages from what ever census
microfilm reports you are interested in. As for buying the census, it would
be outrageous expensive and bulky to try to buy a whole paper printed copy of
a census. However, you can get from Family Tree Maker the CD-ROM indexes to
all of the early census reports and these are not all that expensive. They
even have some of the actual census years for some states on CD-ROM. If you
want the complete census for, let us say 1850, for certain states that would
neither be all that expensive (expensive is in the eye of the beholder) or
bulky on a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM census index is a great thing to have because
you can then look up the census year page numbers for those people in which
you have an interest and go to the library and make a Xerox of the microfilm
page or pages in which you have an interest. If you do not live near a
library that has the census microfilm you have a problem. Looking through a
CD-ROM census index with a computer sure does beat lugging big paper bound
census indexes around a library trying to find names. One of the really
great things about having some of the CD-ROM disks at home is that when
inspiration hits you are ready to go to work looking for your people right
then and there.

Jno

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