Here is the answer to Michael's question . . . . . --Mark ---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Wentling/HQ/NGS on 02/08/2000 09:44 AM --------------------------- "Boni" <boni@ix.netcom.com> on 02/06/2000 10:18:31 AM To: Mark Wentling/HQ/NGS@NGSDOMAIN cc: Subject: RE: NYGenExchange: 1850 Jefferson Co. Census Mark Sorry it's taken so long to answer your email. The following is a list of census finished and online at genexchange Adam, A-bay, Brownsville, Clayton, Hounsfield, LeRay, Lyme, Pamelia, Rodman, Rutland, Theresa, and Watertown.. We have four more about ready to enter online : Ellisburg and Worth are about ready... Champian, Orleans still need a little more editing. By May we hope to have Ellisburg, Worth, Champion, and Orleans online , which will give us 16 of the 22 town. . Do to health problems of our volunteer's. The remaining four towns have not been recorded or entered into a data base. I've been told I should have waited till all 22 town where finished, it may have been another year or two . Bonnie Shafer -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wentling [mailto:mwentlin@ngs.org] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:01 AM To: boni@ix.netcom.com Subject: NYGenExchange: 1850 Jefferson Co. Census Hi Bonnie, I'd like to thank you and your volunteers for putting the valuable 1850 census data for Jefferson County online in a searchable format -- it's a fantastic resource! Some of us Jefferson County researchers, myself included, have searched for ancestors that we know were living in the county, but they do not show up in the database. I am wondering if you could perhaps tell me what portions of the census have not yet been uploaded to the database, or what parts might have been skipped. Also, is there any way that an alphabetical list of persons in the database (or at least a list of surnames) could be made accessible through the database? It is difficult to find a person when one doesn't know the censustakersused an alternate spelling of the actual name -- such a list would solve that problem because people to pick out the variants for themselves. Thanks again very much for this great resource -- it's nice to have such a complete tool online and not just an index! Regards, Mark A. Wentling