Michael wrote: > Can you refer me to whomever is doing this indexing? in reference to a statement I made in a posting dated 19 Oct 2005 > > There is an effort underway to index one of the Hanover > > censuses from the mid-1800's, but this will take many years Jens Müller Koppe, a professional genealogist and the "owner" of the Lutheran parish website that I noted in my posting, is one of the individuals involved. On 3 Mar 2004 he and Regina Koppe posted the following at the Hannover-L mailing list: ____________________________________________________________ We (Regina Koppe and Jens Mueller-Koppe) are the ones who work on the 1852 Hanover Census project and have begun to issue a free, quarterly census newsletter for English speaking researchers who are interested in this project. You can subcribe to this newsletter (first issue Feb. 2004 - 8 pages) by sending an e-mail to edition@hist.de. The newsletter contains background information as "edition notes", "Archives and Holdings", information about the progress of the project and a bit about our experience with connectiong census and parish register research. For general information about the Hanover census of 1852 and the census project, please visit our wensite at www.edition-hist.de We would be happy if yiu and other readers of Hannover-L would be intersted in the project and in the newsletter. Although we surely appreciate Yvonne`s request for fund-raising it was not our intention to bring in any kind of buisiness matter into Hannover-L. We know quite well that there are good reasons to keep this mailing list and other genealogical ones "commercial free". Best greetings from Bremen, Germany, Regina and Jens Regina Koppe edition hist.de Historical Books and Source Editions Schanzendorfer Str. 9b D - 28307 Bremen Germany -> www.edition-hist.de <- ___________________________________________________________ I checked the census website noted in the posting and it has the list of villages that have been indexed as of 11 Sep 2005. A total of just over 47 thousand people had been indexed as of that date. Probably several million to go. This work is a business venture -- the group doing the indexing is selling books containing portions of the index. Each book has about 2000 names and costs between $12 and $14 U.S. Fred Buck Cincinnati, Ohio