I, too, have seen occasions where the county of birth was given on a census sheet - it is rare, though. When first I saw it I thought perhaps the census taker did not quite understand what was supposed to go in that column and so entered what info was given - in that case, the county of birth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeanne Geake" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:54 PM Subject: RE: Sharp, Pedrick, Mattson > At 06:23 PM 9/2/2003 -0700, Malcolm Sharp wrote: > >Same holds true for 1860 [and any census] -- county of birth not taken. > > > You're mistaken. I've got a picture of the page 9 of City of Salem, Salem > Co. 1860 census in front of me now and it gives Eli Sharp's place of birth > as Burlington Co. and it gives county of birth for everyone on the page who > was born in NJ. I just looked at another page in the City of Salem in 1860 > and it also gives county of birth for those born in NJ. > > Jeanne > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >