Nancy, What do you need done on Alexandria. My ancestors were there, bit not after 1870. Lisa Ecker Nancy Dixon wrote: > Dear Listers: > > We are starting a new project for the Jefferson County GenWebSite. If > you are interested in typing, at your own pace with no deadline, we can > use your help. After having completed the bios from > Child's Gazetteer, I put it away and forgot it. For some reason I got it > out a week or so ago, and found we just scratched the surface. Part 2 of > Child's contains a business directory of some 300 pages, listing heads of > households and businesses, with interesting genealogical tidbits thinly > scattered throughout. Adams alone (the one I'm working with) has some 15 > or so double columned single spaced pages, meaning LOTS of names. It is, > however, one of the longer ones. > > At the very least, it looks as though we have an 1890 heads of household, > census type list, giving the location of nearly every head of household, > as well as a few family members in some cases, and > occupations. The location of each person can be found with the Child's > maps we have already on the site. > > As you may know, the 1890 census was destroyed by fire, except the small > portion containing information about Civil War Vets and their survivors. > There is no census for Jefferson County between 1885 and 1895, and this > book was published conveniently in 1890. > > Let me know: > 1. If you want to help > 2. If you have access to Child's > 3. If you need copies to work from > 4. If you do want to help, what town(s) you would prefer. We'll give > preference on a first come basis. Still available are Alexandria, > Antwerp, Champion, Henderson, LeRay, Orleans, Philadelphia, Rutland, > Theresa, and Worth. > 5. If you mind having your name listed as volunteer on a volunteer page > to be developed somewhere on the site. We get these NICE letters of > appreciation, and I don't know what to do with them. If we had a > volunteer page, we could put them up and you could see what a difference > you make! > > The Town of Watertown is already in, and will be posted shortly, so that > you can see what the project entails. > > Email me for instructions. This is an easy one: straight typing. > > Nan Dixon > -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/ > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi