Yup..go to the motor vehicle dept. In the back room is where all the census for jefferson county is index on 3x5 cards. Leona ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Dixon <nandixon@gisco.net> To: <NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [NYJEFFER-L] 1855 New York State Census > Michael Jackman wrote: > > > > I have recently seen some of the 1855 census, and was surprised to find it clear and legible. It did leave me with a few questions, though. > > > > 1.) Under the "kind of house" columns (e.g.: stone, frame, log) I found what appeared to be "Soq." What is this? > > Very poor penmanship for log? I don't think I've ever seen that. > > > 2.) When was the census taken, as far as month or day? > > That information is usually at the top of each sheet, and varies from > town to town, and census taker to census taker. > > > Now I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the 1865 census as well. It isn't available at the NYPL research branch. Is it available on > inter-library loan > > There's a really good index to that for Jefferson County, if you can find > it. Does anyone know the name of the compiler? > > The state census should be available on interlibrary loan. > > 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 > >