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). > > >