"Anita C. Mason" wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am currently working on a transcription of th 1850 Census for Monterey > County. While many surnames and given names are deciperable, I have come > across numerous instances where either the handwriting is sloppy or the > page is a little too faded for me to figure out how the name is supposed > to be spelled. > > Among those I have been able to read, there are many occurrences where > an "o" ending is used for a female and an "a" ending is used for a male. > These I have left as is. > > I realize that the enumerator used a lot of phonetic spellings for the > Hispanic names but in many cases it is very difficult to determine > whether it a letter is a "w," "m," "ui," "a," "u," "i," "k," "h," etc. > > In an attempt to help figure out some of the Hispanic spellings, I > transcribed the 1851 Assessment Roll for Monterey County. I was hoping > that since the two lists were only a year apart, many of the same names > would appear on both lists. Unfortunately the names I am having trouble > with do not appear on the Assessment Roll. Hence my request. > > I would greatly appreciate any listings of Hispanic names that were > known to be, or suspected of being, in the 1850 Monterey County Census. > Misspellings as well as correct spellings are both welcome. > > Thank you, > Anita C. > Monterey County > > BTW, the 1850 Monterey County Census will be posted if I ever figure out > the "elusive" names. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp The Monterey County Genealogy Society has published a transcription of this and several other early census. Contact them thru Gary Carlson who I think still does voluntary lookups on the Genweb site. He did the actual work and is a highly skilled researcher. Rick Bergman Salinas