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Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 20:45:05 GMT

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You've got questions about discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history; our experts have the answers. Census Substitute Teacher
Q. Are any states besides Idaho reconstructing the 1890 census? I'm interested in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee. A. The Department of Commerce fire that destroyed most 1890 census records is a research brick wallbut it's one you can get around. Some schedules for several states survived, including a few counties in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. The 1890 special schedules of Union Civil War veterans and their widows survived for half of Kentucky and for the states occurring alphabetically after that.The National Archives and Records Administration Web site has a list of 1890 census microfilms. Census recontruction projects involve using county, state and federal records to approximate who would've been around for the census. State archives manage some projects, such as Idaho's, and genealogical societies oversee others, such as Trimble County, Kentucky's. Find projects on Cyndi's List and by doing a Google search on a county or state name and 1890 census. Ancestry.com's US Census Collection (a $99.95 annual subscription) has several 1890 census substitutes. Researchers sometimes publish census substitutes, such as Prairie County, Arkansas, 1890 Census Reconstruction by Margaret Harrison Hubbard (self published, out of print). Find them by scouring genealogical society Web sites, online bookstores and library catalogs. If you can't find a census reconstruction for your ancestors' counties, remember: You have access to the very same records as the people conducting such projects. Look for your ancestors in tax lists, state censuses, voter rolls and city directories. See www.ancestry.
com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3640 for more research suggestions.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Wanda Qualls
To: TXCOMAL-L ; Comal County Genealogy Society ; ; bernard stewart
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Can someone help with this?


I am ashamed to say that I don't have an answer for this one. Where did you find the 1890 census?
I am sending this to several mailing lists in hopes that one of them can answer your question. I, for one, would also like to know the answer. Wanda Qualls


Hello Wanda:
I just wanted to see if you have any info on my family that was there in 1890.
In order for them to make the Re-construction book (census) they had to meet Three thing.
I was wondering which Three thing you have on them, so I know what I'm looking for when I get there next year
Thanks

Bernard Stewart

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