HI BEVERLY, I HAVE LITTLE EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR AREA. BUT I HAVE FOUND CITY DIRECTORIES TO BE GOOD SOURCE OF INFORMATION. CAN YOU FIND ONE FOR LA SALLE, GOOD HUNTING. ELIZABETH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Howard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:17 PM Subject: [NYNIAGAR] 1892 census > My great-grandparents lived in LaSalle in Sept 1894 when my > great-grandfather , John Bower died. I was looking at the microfilm for > the > state census of 1892 last night at the local FHC and it took me a while to > figure out that it was arranged by "towns" which correspond to what I > would > call townships. Luckily they had an atlas there that showed me the towns > of > Niagara Co but it wasnt detailed enough for me to tell if LaSalle would > have > been in Niagara town or the next one over. The obit says he lived in > LaSalle > two years, so when the 1892 census was done in Feb 1892, he may not have > been there yet. I read through all the entries for Niagara town up to half > way through district 5 and the only possible match was a John Bowers, 59, > from Germany and a Tailor who was on page 7 of district 1. This may well > be > him but all other references to him say Bower and there was no family > listed > with him. At first I thought maybe the census was head of household only > but > found whole families later on. > > Does anyone else have experience with this state census? Is it possible > that > he was listed at his place of business and the family may have been > further > than I read? Supposedly the whole county was on this film [878329]. Why > was > there a section for the "Village of N. Tonawanda" when everything else was > by town? Are there any indexes for this census? > > Beverly > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message