Hi George! You are right I 'don't realize the immense scope of such an operation' . Still hopeful that it happens soon. Z On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:36:48 -0500 George Richmond <grichmon@localnet.com> writes: > >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). > > > ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> > See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > >

I think that there are plenty of other projects scrapbooks, early obit indices, images and other such things that could be worked on instead of a census which we can read at our own leisure... I suspect that there are many items sitting in envelopes and boxes that sit there because there are not enough volunteers to do the job... and if you have not tried to do such an index, I do think that it would be a good exercise for you.... finding YOUR person on a page where you are EXPECTING to find the NAME is vastly different than reading and writing whatever you find.... a simple all name index of a scrapbook of typed documents could take weeks or months of a person's time.... and I do mean READ the census pages at your own leisure, not merely use an index... the older the census, the more chance you will find OTHER family members as part of the READ.... I personally think that the total dependency on an INDEX which is created by people reading a document that is VERY hard TO READ in the best of environments is NOT a good thing... have you checked the gen web to see if there are any of the townships read or if they are looking for a second reader/transcriber... if not, then to the usgenweb project with ya.... and see what is in the works there... ----- Original Message ----- From: zona.himmelsbach@juno.com<mailto:zona.himmelsbach@juno.com> To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [NYERIE] 1892 Census of Erie County Hi George! You are right I 'don't realize the immense scope of such an operation' . Still hopeful that it happens soon. Z On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:36:48 -0500 George Richmond <grichmon@localnet.com<mailto:grichmon@localnet.com>> writes: > >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<mailto: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<mailto: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). > > > ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net<mailto:dtrose@cox.net>> > See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/> > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx> > > > ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net<mailto:dtrose@cox.net>> See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/> ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx>