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    1. [KYWAYNE] 1880 Census on FamilySearch.org
    2. Fay Clark
    3. For those of you who may not have discovered the 1880 census on the FamilySearch website, here is one way to get to it and use it: Go to www.familysearch.org Look at the menu under "Information" at the lefthand side of the the Welcome page. Look for the 2nd item: <US 1880, British and Canadian 1881 Censuses are now available online> and click on that link. Next to the "Census" block, select "1880 United States Census" When that loads, choose your Census State at the bottom--For example, "Kentucky." When that loads, you can then choose a county. I chose "Wayne." My family is mainly in the Mullentown or Slick Ford area, so I narrowed it down to "Mullentown." (You can be as specific or general as you want to be. It is not necessary to choose a county and/or town if you don't know where in Kentucky your family should be. You don't even have to enter a name if, for example, you want to bring up everyone living in Monticello.) In my case, for example, I chose to enter the surname "Clark." The database then brings up everyone with the surname "Clark" living in Mullentown, Wayne Co, KY. I recognized the very first person listed, Jesse Clark, as one of my family members and clicked on his name. What comes up will be his Individual Record, but I also want to see everyone living in his household, so I click on <Household> in the upper righthand side of the web page. That will then bring up the Household record, which I can either copy and paste to my word processor or download as a gedcom file to merge into my database. If you will notice, you can also click on <Previous Household> or <Next Household>, and in that way see who the neighbors are. In the case of my Thomas A. Clark b. 1832, I entered his name as Head of Household, specified 1832 as his year of birth, United States as his country of birth and began looking in Kentucky, then got lucky when I looked at Tennessee. Individual Records can also be downloaded in a gedcom file--50 individuals at a time, max. Fay Clark _______________________________________________________________________ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. --Romans 5:7-8

    02/02/2003 05:11:03