Note from linda- please forward as you receive this email to other lists since it will appear in the nj digest. you need to register now! _NJ-D@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:NJ-D@rootsweb.com) SUBSCRIBE AND THEN ANY POSTINGS TO _NJ-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:NJ-L@rootsweb.com) IF YOU WANT TO GET INFO- LOTS OF NY, CT AND OTHER(PA?) LOCATIONS PROB. WILL BE MENTIONED FOR BRIDE OR GROOM. BLESS DAVID FOR DOING ALL THIS WORK. Howdy ALL - well, your verdict is in - I will continue doing as have been doing and simply transcribe as they are in the book - which is alphabetical and males separated from female. Now that's what is going to my rootsweb contact anyway. IN ADDITION, since it seems evident that most of you don't realize what has already been transcribed, I will begin to post the material to this mailing list. The material which I will send, while similar to what is in the archives at rootsweb will have to be a shorter version, in that the mailing list has data limits that they can process on back to the list, estimated to be about 7 pages, single spacing, whereas in the archives they can take all that I give them, even if 100 pages in length and greater. To put you on the right path, understand that I will be including the page number for reference, and not omitting it as had planned. In this way you will then have a citable source for the data. And too, the material may contain errors. Sometimes the errors are typo errors on my part (apologies in advance), and sometimes the error is done by the printer or publisher or author. Here's two examples, which are erroneous, purely made up: Surname beginning with S - Male: Small, Ebenezer, Burlington, and Mary Hope, Bucks Co., Pa. 1743 June 18 Surname beginning with H - Female: Hope, Mary, Bucks Co., Pa., and Ebenezer Small, Burlington 1747 June 18 Because I am merely transcribing what is on the pages, I cannot be sure which date is correct, and which is not. And until you can confirm it one way or the other, neither should you. Here's another example: Surname beginning with E - Female: Ivins, Sarah, Orange Co., N. Y., and George Hawkins, Cape May 1734 May 8 Surname beginning with H - Male: Hawkins, George, Cape May, and Sarah Evens, Orange Co., N. Y. 1734 May 8 In the 2nd example, a person with a surname beginning with a different letter than the section it is listed for, will require me to make note of the variance in the wrong section entry, as the correct entry will be discovered by looking up the partner entry for the correct spelling of the female spouse. Any time I use my own words in these transcriptions, I generally try to use double brackets - [[ ]], followed by my initials 'dwt'. In the past, I may have used single brackets, but only because single brackets were not used by the author. I probably will continue to create separate postings for different counties and/or various areas as am trying to use the data in the NJ Archives, and other sources to re-create a census of sorts, for time periods prior to 1830, when census records for NJ exist. In my feeblest of mind games, I thought it might make a great project for the mailing list, to (collectively) by working on our own various lines, try to prove who was alive when and where, and thereby create our own census records, albeit in most cases somewhat unproven. No harm in dreaming, hey? Anyway, am at work at the moment, and unable to write on the subject further. Will probably begin transmitting marriage data next week. The night job comes first, and my break is over. IDLE is not a word allowed in the dictionary of a janitor. God Bless. David