I am happy to announce that we have finished transcribing the 9th ward and I am currently formatting it to put on line at the URL below my name. Some will go up today and gradually the whole ward will be on line probably by the end of the week. I have moved the other wards, 6th and 12th also to this site and have put links on my freepages site to the new site. The 9th ward contained 4,533 names, 885 families and they lived in 480 dwellings. Those who transcribed this ward are: Bob McConihe, Lynn Grice, Dorsey Clark, Joan Firth-Kaysen, Ron Mauer, Brooke Myers and Mary Ann McConnell. We now have three wards completed for a total of 13,101 names, 2,432 families and 1,333 dwellings! These volunteers are to be commended for giving up their free time to get this census on line. We currently have the 11th ward more than half way transcribed and will then do the 8th ward which will move us more to the center of Troy. By the way, you will find more of a mixture of emigrants in the 9th ward. It is not totally Irish like the other two seemed to be. There are many more German, English and French Canadians in this ward. Again, I warn you when you check the census, look for all the spellings of the surname. Sometimes the enumerator spelled the name wrong and sometimes the handwriting is just too hard to read so we had to guess. If you see a (sic) near any entry, it means the transcriber recognizes the data is wrong but that is how the enumerator entered it. Also, my son is working on putting all this data into a database and creating a form so you can search on the site rather than go into each ward. This is taking time, however, since he is a busy man. If anyone would like to volunteer to help with the transcription, we will appreciate your help. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com