Hi Cousins, In case somebody missed this I have received permission to forward it to the list. Darrel and I are distant Cousins. We descend from a pair of brothers born in TN/NC who in their early 20's bought a lot in Madisonville, Ky in 1807, I from Robert and he from George. Neither of us has been able to prove their father yet, but we suspect a NC or VA parentage. We have been exchanging notes for some years and I knew he was working on this census project for sometime and I am delighted to hear he has made enough progress that he is willing to do lookups. We hope to link this data up to the web page <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/bigtruffel/hooker.html">Hooker Families </A> someday. I am sure that Darrell would agree with me that if any of you Carolina Hookers can find our brothers father that would be fair trade. Patrick Anderson (list manager) In a message dated 99-02-04 20:56:15 EST, you write: << Subj: Hooker Census Extractions Date: 99-02-04 20:56:15 EST From: [email protected] (Darrell Hooker) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] The HOOKER family census extraction project continues even though professional obligations have necessarily interrupted it from time to time. It is my desire to make all the information available to HOOKER researchers in a searchable database on the internet but it will likely be some time before that becomes a reality. In the meantime, I will be more than happy to search for individuals or families bearing the HOOKER surname by request. Please be as specific as possible, perhaps supplying me with approximate ages at a given time. Parents' or siblings' names might be helpful, for example, keeping in mind however that prior to 1850, only heads of household are listed by name. The current phase of this project involves extracting HOOKER families in every state from census records of 1790 - 1870. Obviously, many states were admitted to the Union at dates much later than 1790 and, except for a few of the territorial censuses, records do not exist prior to dates of admission. The second phase of the project will be to extract the families from the 1880 census records. It is expected this phase will require as much or more time as the entire first phase. The 1880 census has been Soundexed, but only families containing children of age 10 and under are included in the Soundex, along with lone individuals of all ages. Census extractions of HOOKER heads of household (1790-1840) and HOOKER families (1850 and later) are complete for the following: [Southern States - Project complete] AL 1820-1870 AR 1850-1870 DE 1870 FL 1850-1870 GA 1820-1870 KY 1810-1870 LA 1850-1870 MD 1790-1870 MS 1820-1870 MO 1850-1870 NC 1790-1870 SC 1790-1870 TN 1820-1870 VA 1810-1870 WV 1860-1870 [Western States - Project complete] AZ 1860, 1867, 1870 CA 1850-1870 CO 1870 ID 1870-1880 MT 1870-1880 NV 1870 NM 1860-1870 OR 1850-1880 TX 1850-1870 UT 1856, 1870-1880 WA 1870-1880 WY 1880 [Mid-Western States] DAK TER 1880 IA1850-1870 IL 1820-1860 IN 1807,1820-1860 KS 1860-1870 MN 1860-1870 NE 1870 WI 1840-1870 [New England/Eastern States] CT 1790-1850 MI 1850 NY 1790-1850 PA 1790-1850 RI 1860 VT 1790, 1800, 1830 Darrell R. Hooker [email protected] >>