I have but thank you for the suggestion Mary Leanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "MARY BRIMM" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [ILSALINE-L] Southern IL 1810 Census > Try the marriage registers in Gallatin Co. also for this birth. Mary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "holdgraf" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:44 PM > Subject: Re: [ILSALINE-L] Southern IL 1810 Census > > > > Just a note to vent some frustration. I started researching family > history > > only about a year ago...so I'm a rookie with soooo much to learn. I live > in > > Kansas City and am able to visit my birthplace...Harrisburg....once a > year. > > Thank goodness for the wonderful resources we have available to us on the > > internet now days! Anyway....just got back from my week end in Harrisburg. > > Amist three parties and a grade school reunion I was able to visit the > > library and court house and driv e to Shawnee town. I was specifically > > trying to find any information on the birth of my great great grandfather, > > Albert Lancaster. November 27, 1872 or 1873 in Gallatin County. I had > > called Gallatin County court house from Kansas City and was told births > b/4 > > 1878 weren't recorded. When I got to Harrisburg I found they have > Gallatin > > County newspapers but a 20 year span is missing which includes 1873. Drove > > to Shawnee town and same deal....20 yr span missing?? I had hoped to > > possible find some kind of birth announcement in the paper. Back in Kansas > > City now...I've been calling the Gallatin Democrat all morning but no one > > answers. Also visited the court house in Harrisburg to see if any wills > were > > listed for my people...Cresswell, Lancaster, Smythe or Smith, but didn't > > find a single one. There have been times when I have absolutely hit the > > jackpot of information, but this week end wasn't one of those times. > > > > Can anyone tell me if there was a working newspaper in Gallatin County in > > 1872 or 3? Does anyone have any suggestions how I might find information > on > > birth of Albert Lancaster...Nov 27, 1872 or 1873? I sure could use some > > advice. > > > > Thank you, Leanna > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Trev" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 1:53 PM > > Subject: [ILSALINE-L] Southern IL 1810 Census > > > > > > > Has anyone viewed the 1810 census?? This included Saline Co, right (I > know > > > it did in 1818)? > > > > > > TERRITORIAL CENSUSES. > > > > > > 1810; 1818. 2 microfilm rolls and 1 vol. Index. > > > > > > The surviving portion of the 1810 territorial census is for Randolph > > County > > > alone which at the time of the enumeration composed the southern quarter > > of > > > what now is the state of Illinois. Entries include name of town, > village, > > or > > > other geographical subdivision; name of head of household; numbers of > free > > > white males aged 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, and 45 and upwards; numbers > of > > > free white females by the same age divisions; number of other free > > persons, > > > except Indians, not taxed; and the number of slaves. Entries were > > > recapitulated and endorsed by the census taker. > > > > > > The 1818 population census of the Illinois Territory was compiled in > each > > > county by census commissioners appointed by the territorial Governor to > > > establish the minimum population requirement for achieving statehood. > Each > > > county return includes name of county and for each household name of > head > > of > > > household, numbers of free white males twenty-one years of age or older, > > > other white inhabitants, free Negroes and mulattoes, and servants and > > > slaves. Also included are total number of inhabitants of each county, > > > signature of census commissioner certifying census, and date certified. > > > Returns are included for the following counties: > > > > > > Bond > > > Crawford > > > Franklin > > > Gallatin > > > Jackson > > > Johnson > > > Madison > > > Monroe > > > Pope > > > Randolph > > > St. Clair > > > Union > > > Washington > > > White > > > > > > Censuses were reprinted by Margaret Cross Norton, ed., Illinois Census > > > Returns: 1810, 1818, in Theodore Calvin Pease, ed., Collections of the > > > Illinois State Historical Library, XXIV, (Springfield, 1935). > > > > > >