----- Original Message ----- From: Joan Stevenson <rlsteven@flash.net> To: Bill Sowers <ksdocs@ink.org> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [KSLINCOL] Reply > So I guess that there are more pages that I need to find for the 1870 > census - my quest for the month!! > > Joan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bill Sowers <ksdocs@ink.org> > To: <KSLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:19 AM > Subject: Re: [KSLINCOL] Reply > > > > Hello Wilda, Clarence and Lincoln County researchers..... > > > > Right after I sent that last email (and I apologize for writing "Hell" > > instead of "Hello" at the beginning of it... I need to watch my typing a > > bit better!) I realized that I didn't need a map to figure out township > > divisions for the 1870 census. We don't have the census on film here at > > the State Library but we do have the books that give the statistics (i.e. > > the numbers, not the names)... actually we have the original volumes! So > I > > went upstairs and thumbed through the 1870 volumes. > > > > Part of the 1870 census included a section for each state listing > > geographical subdivisions of counties. As I looked through the Kansas > > chapter I saw that the eastern counties already had townships or > > directional areas (e.g. "northeast corner of county, southeast corner of > > county, etc.). The counties toward the west did not. > > > > Lincoln County had 516 people listed in the 1870 census. There are no > > geographical subdivisions... no townships, no areas... listed in the > > official U.S. Census volumes for Lincoln County. Thus the census taker(s) > > probably put "Lincoln" in the township to indicate the entire county as > > well.... a guess. > > > > later > > > > Bill > > > > Bill Sowers (ksdocs@ink.org) > > Kansas Documents Librarian/Tech Services Librarian > > State Library of Kansas > > 300 SW 10th, Room 343-N -- Topeka, KS 66612 > > (In the State Capitol Building in beautiful downtown Topeka) > > (phone: 785-296-0265) (in-state WATS 800-432-3919) > > CHECK OUT THE TOPEKA LIBRARIES ONLINE "ATLAS" CATALOG at: > > http://lib.wuacc.edu/ > > > > > > >