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    1. Re: [ALJEFFER] Everybody! Re: Census Lookups
    2. William C. Burgess II
    3. Hello Nancy, The reason I asked for census lookup is I don't have local access to internet in my remote location and I am 185 miles from nearest research facility, LDS Library, Mesa, AZ. The internet services available are too costly (long distance phone charges). Sorry! Bill On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 08:29:15 -0600 Nancy DeVore Williams <william3@hiwaay.net> writes: > That reminds me. If you haven't tried the Geneaology CD LIst for > lookups you might want to give it a shot at: > http://seidata.com/~genealogy/cdlist.html > This liste has been on the net, practically since there's been a net > ;?) > What you do is, use the search engine to see if a marriage or a > census > record exists for your ancestor (using the search engine on the > site). > IF you find that your ancestors name is listed on a likely looking > CD > then you scroll down to the names of the volunteers doing lookups > for > that CD. You won't BELIEVE all of the volunteers!!! Just make SURE > that you use the search engine to establish that 'your' name is on > the > CD, and make SURE you follow there simple rules (they are mostly > just > questions of courtesy.) If you have the same experience that I do > you > will find that the people are VERY helpful!! Just a word of > warning > though. If you haven't worked with WFT CD's don't let THOSE get you > too > excited. They can be a lot of false turns, but FOR ME the marraige > and > census CD's have been a TON of help!! Good luck. Nanc >

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