Pat, Hold the press! I take that back -- the 1880 search window just came up -- couldn't find it yesterday. 1870 doesn't appear, though, etc. Ron Myers Pat Connors wrote: > Yesterday, I announced that I am proud to be the new coordinator of the > Rensselaer County GenExhange site. I also stated that I uploaded 100 > records from the Troy 1880 federal census. It is now up there for all > to see. If you would like to see all the records entered, don't put any > names in the search form, just do a search with a blank form. Then you > will get all the records. > > Tonight I uploaded 128 naturalization records of my family surnames. I > don't know when it will get on site but if like the census it will be > there tomorrow. Gradually I am uploading all my Rensselaer data > (directories, census, cemetery, baptisms, etc.). As I said yesterday, > it makes sense to have all the data in a centralized place rather than > surf from site to site. > > Today someone emailed that if I sent her pages of the 1880 census (she > knew the pages of her family), in turn, she would transcribe the records > and also upload them to the GenExchange site. She suggested that other > might like to do that also. So here's the offer. If you know that > page(s) your ancestors are on, I'll send two at a time if you transcribe > them into a template (I'll supply it) and send it to me. Then I'll > upload it and send you two more sheets if you want them. Or if you just > want to help, that's okay also. Gradually we could get all of the 1880 > Troy census on line. > > I also have the 1870 census and index. If you know your ancestors name > and address, I can also send those if you promise to transcribe the > sheet and send it to me. How's that for a deal? I must warn you it is > not easy to transcribe, the writing is hard to read. > > Also, as you go through the Rensselaer GenExchange site, you will notice > there are not many records in the data banks, so I plead with you to > help the site out and when you have a few minutes, please enter some of > your data in the appropriate category. I found it really easy today > just to put in my surnames. Once I put in the first record, their > cookie saved all my data and the next time all I had to put in was my > surname. > > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, listowner > > GenExchange Rensselaer County Coordinator > http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=ny&county=rensselaer > > ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== > Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ > GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer > GenExchange-Rensselaer Co http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=ny&county=rensselaer