Deb, Maywood wasn't built up too much back in 1905/15. Not exactly rural, but not far from it. I've got lots of relatives in Jersey City, population abt 200,000 back then and that is what I was thinking of! <g> I agree, less populated areas wouldn't be too difficult to browse, but the urban areas are a big challenge. Maureen On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:57:02 -0500, Deb O'Reilly <[email protected]> wrote: > My $.02... I've used the New Jersey State Census records for Bergen County > and while it did take a while to locate the several families I was looking > for in Maywood, a hour or so? Not too long a time in my mind. So if you > have at least a county and/or town name it shouldn't be too hard to locate > the family of your search. > > I have also used the New York State census films for Queens County and > again, because Queens is broken down into 'towns', I was able to locate my > families relatively easily there. Now, I have not tackled Manhattan or > Brooklyn where I know several of my families were residing and should show > up on one or more of the NY state census records... I guess it would help if > one knows the EDs from previous and next census, but I too have cringed at > the thought of trying to scroll through reels and reels of microfilm... > > Hth, > > Deb O'Reilly > Midlothian, Viriginia USA > home page: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dcoreilly > A&NESFHS #13005 > WorldConnect at Rootsweb/Ancestry.com: > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dcoreilly > Researching the Grassick and related families of Aberdeenshire > > -----Original Message----- > From: MJ Mann [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] help state census 1905 & 1915 > > Donna, > > NJ has both 1905 & 1915 on microfilm. There is NO INDEX for any of > the state census records. The microfilms are at the State Archives > where anyone can go & use them. And although the Archives staff does > handle some simple mail requests (for a fee, of course) they don't do > the state census requests, because of the lack of index.!! I believe > microfilm rolls are available from the LDS. > > I haven't used them yet, the thought of scrolling through and reading > all those census pages, keeps me putting this task at the bottom of my > 'to do' list. <g> > > Hope this helps, > Maureen > ==================================== > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:34:45 -0500, Donna Luzzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > Would anyone know if NY or NJ had a 1905 or 1915 census?? and is it > online?? > > > > thanks for any help > > best regards and this very wet day here in Va. Bch., Va. > > donna > > > > ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== > > ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== > List Administrators: > Tracy Cassidy [email protected] > Jim McCarthy [email protected] > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >