At 12:36 PM 3/20/2005 -0500, George Richmond wrote: >>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. I am part of a group effort in Cleveland, Ohio, to accomplish something similar [an expanded index] with the 1930 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, census. That project is approaching four [3.7 actually] times as large as doing the 1892 Erie as Cuyahoga County had an estimated population of 1.2 million people in 1930. After 3 years, we are only just approaching the halfway mark and this is a cooperative group effort amongst local [Cleveland area] genealogy groups. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah2/census/1930cen/ED_list.html [in case you want to take a look - I am the online coordinator, putting the end results online] I would love to see the 1892 Erie County census available online and certainly with the minimal information included in that census it may as well be a transcript as any kind of index but it would take a number of people working together for a LENGTHY period of time and is hampered by the fact that these are on LDS films and have limited availability/access for a project like this. >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. Is there anyway to get this correlation of address to ward/district available to those of us without access to the Maple Road FHC? If it is something printed, I would be willing to OCR, proof it and make it available online if I can be sent a copy and if permissions can be obtained to do so. >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. I loved that district when I was searching!!! Unfortunately it did not include any of the four families I am hunting. <sigh> Holly Timm aka MaMaT