Maybe we could get volunteers from the Erie listers; it'd take years. Maybe we could request LDS FHC to start the project. Z On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:29:24 -0800 (PST) Cynthia Van Ness <bettybarcode@yahoo.com> writes: > Nope, no printed index. There aren't too many volunteers who > are eager to transcribe over 325,000 names (estimated county > population at that time) from film. So it's up to a business > like Ancestry to decide there's a profit to be made by doing it. > > --- zona.himmelsbach@juno.com wrote: > > > There's also the 1892 census of Erie County -- Here are the > > numbers to order microfilm for that: > > > Buffalo, wards 1-4, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film > > > 825692 Item 2 > > > Buffalo, wards 5-12, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film > > > 825693 Buffalo, wards 13-21, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film > > > 825694 Buffalo, wards 22-25, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film > > > 825695 Item 1 > > > > Has this film been transcribed and will it ever be available online?

>Maybe we could get volunteers from the Erie listers; it'd take years. >Maybe we could request LDS FHC to start the project. >Z You don't realize the immense scope of such an operation. >On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:29:24 -0800 (PST) Cynthia Van Ness ><bettybarcode@yahoo.com> writes: >> Nope, no printed index. There aren't too many volunteers who >> are eager to transcribe over 325,000 names (estimated county >> population at that time) from film. So it's up to a business >> like Ancestry to decide there's a profit to be made by doing it. >> >> --- zona.himmelsbach@juno.com wrote: >> > > There's also the 1892 census of Erie County -- Here are the >> > numbers to order microfilm for that: >> > > Buffalo, wards 1-4, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film >> > > 825692 Item 2 >> > > Buffalo, wards 5-12, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film >> > > 825693 Buffalo, wards 13-21, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film >> > > 825694 Buffalo, wards 22-25, 1892 FHL US/CAN Film >> > > 825695 Item 1 >> > > > > Has this film been transcribed and will it ever be available online? This census was organized by wards and election districts. To assist in finding a family, the FHC on Maple Road in Amherst has prepared a book relating street addresses in Buffalo to ward and district numbers. So you look up the family in the city directory to get the street address, then find the ward and district. You then have only a dozen or so census pages to scan to find your family. A few of the census takers were especially helpful. They wrote the street address on a line ahead of the list of those who lived there. George (whose grandfather successfully evaded the above procedure).