Thank you very much John. I'm in NH so it's a challenge to be able to get to the hard copies of resources available. Pam -----Original Message----- From: John M. Hines, Sr. [mailto:toyman@iolinc.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:24 PM To: HCGS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HCGS] Census before West Virginia split from Virginia Pam; I don't know if this will help you or not but I have put most of my collection on CD on loan to the Harrison County Genealogy Society! I think that, that CD might be in there for the 1790 Census! Call and ask David at the Library to see! John Pam Raley wrote: > I've seen that Ancestry.com has available a CD of census before the 1790 > Federal census. Does anyone know if this information is available > non-commercially? > Pam Foster Raley > > -----Original Message----- > From: PAM BARRICKLOW [mailto:locustcreek@msn.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 11:41 AM > To: HCGS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [HCGS] Census before West Virginia split from Virginia > > Before 1860 what counties of VA would be the current WV? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: JSample763@aol.com > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:41 AM > To: HCGS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [HCGS] Census before West Virginia split from Virginia > > Census record information for WV and VA can be somewhat confusing. For 1860 > and earlier, VA census records include what are now WV counties that were in > existence at the time. Beginning in 1870, WV has it's own census records > and > WV counties are omitted from the VA census records. > > After WV become a state in 1863, published books of census data and indexes, > including CDs of these, are most likely parochial. That is books and CDs of > census indexes and data will contain only the counties for their respective > state. > > Say you want to see the census records for Harrison County, WV for the > census > year 1860 and earlier, then you would look in the VA census records. For > published indexes and books, look under WV. > > Jim > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237