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Subject: Re: [NYC] John Dammann
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:24:09 EDT


In a message dated 9/2/00 21:26:00 Mountain Daylight Time,
writes:
[snip]
> There is an index to the 1850 census on CD. Unfortunately the
> old one I have is screwed up for Manhattan - the Ward number is
> truncated from the listings. I did check the names however.
> There are listings for a Charles and a Richard DAMMANN (on the
> same page), but none for a John. Given the often poor handwriting
> and misspellings in these censuses, he's likely to be indexed under
> another spelling.
>
> Regards,
> Charles Sullivan
[snip]

Charles and Richard are both on page 360, NYC Ward 9. I found about a
half-dozen Johns with similar-sounding surnames. Unfortunately, I had
deleted the original post, so do not have Marion Markham's e-mail address.
If Marion will contact me off-list, I'll be happy to send what I found.

Gary Vincent


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