Marhsa: The code appear to be four letter abbreviations of cities or states. i.e., Baden Baden, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Bremen, ?, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, ?, ?, Hessian, ?, ?, ?, Mecklenburg, ?, Munster, ?,( West) Phalia, ?, ?, ?, Saxon?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Thuringer, (Swartz) Wald, Wurtzburg. Perhaps someone else can make corrections and fill in the blanks. Roger Monterey Marsha Ensminger wrote: > Santa brought the Heritage Quest "Germans in the 1870 US Federal > Census" CD last year. The search process is rather klunky, and they > use a four letter code for birthplace that I haven't found a table of > equivalencies for, but the general breakdown looks like this: > > In the 1870 census there were 4111 heads of households in Madison Co., > IL identified as "German". Of these, 1816 or 44% had their birthplaces > recorded as either Prussia or Germany. > The remaining birthplaces (using the 4 letter code) were: > BADE - 489, BAVA - 443, BRAN - 2, BREM - 5, BRUN - 39, FRNK - 1, HAMB - > 7, HANO - 493, HCAS - 27, HDAR - 147, HESS - 71, HDEC - 1, LDET - 27, > LSCH - 4, MECK - 22, MSCH - 3, MSTR - 1, OLDE - 12, PFAL - 1, POME - 1, > RSCH - 1, SALT - 2, SAXO - 117, SCHW - 6, SCOG - 1, SHOL - 22, SILE - > 3, SWEE - 7, THUR - 2, WALD - 66, WEST - 6, WURT - 226, UNKN - 23, NCOD > - 12, ASEA - 2. > > I would guess that the last three are "unknown", "no code", and "at > sea", bringing the unidentified to 45% of the total. > > ===== > Marsha L. Ensminger > searching for Westerhold/t/z in the US and ? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® > http://movies.yahoo.com/ > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > Keep an eye on this census site because more census' are going up every day. > http://www.us-census.org/usgwcens/ > and this one: http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/states.htm