dnc in tennessee wrote: > PS How much time do you think it would take me to fully > transcribe the 1900 Hamilton County TN census? How fast can you type? The 1880 CD reports nearly 24,000 people in Hamilton county (which includes a moderately large city). I would assume the population rose by at least 50% over the next 20 years. It took me over one work-month to key in "most" of the data for a county of roughly 12,000 on the 1850 (I omitted the literacy and schooling columns since they didn't matter to my purpose in creating the database). Another couple work-weeks to clean up places in the beginning where I'd used ?? for difficult-to-read items. Cheryl