Cheri, I can do the James Township. I have many relatives that lived in this area of Stone County. Let me know what I need to do. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: <Kinklector@aol.com> To: <MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:32 AM Subject: [MOSTONE-L] Transcribing the 1920 Stone Co. Census -- Can you help? > Dear list, > > The 1920 Stone Co. Federal Census is at my FHC. It is not on the Stone Co. > webpage. It is soooooo nice to be able to research things on line, then go > to the FHC and get the rest of the info. > > Jo Dunne & Shirley Evans have done quite a bit to make the Stone Co. webpage > what it is. Almost everything you want is there. They have both answered > questions for me, to the list as well as privately. > > As a thank-you, I'd like to start a transcription project. The 1920 Stone > Co. census is quite large. If it was left up to me by myself, I'd get it > done in 10 years. > > I will go to my FHC and copy the 1920 Stone Co. census, if you don't have > access to it. I will mail you so many pages, or an entire township. The > only thing I ask is for reimbursement of the photocopies. I will pay for > mailing it. My FHC charges 25 cents a page. I may be able to put 1 census > page on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper (my FHC has no other size). I will have > to let you know. But I think I can ( I have some 1920 censuses here...I fit > them on an 8.5x11, but we have a couple of newer printers now). > > I also ask that you follow the same format in transcribing the census. I > think it will be best to follow the abbreviated/basic format that was done in > the past. To do this, you need to have MS Works. You don't have to know > that much about computers to do this. If you are willing, but afraid of the > computer, I will help you learn how to use Works. > > Any volunteers? > Cheri Mello > kinklector@aol.com >