Is there any way to see the entire listing for one household, if more than one surname is involved? Marsha, I know a way to do it.? It isn't elegant, and it's kind of tedious -- but then, show me a genealogist who doesn't do tedious, and I'll show you a chart with only three generations on it! My way of doing it (and if somebody has a better idea, PLEASE tell us!) is to copy each of the alphabetical indexes for a particular ward, and paste them into a spreadsheet program, such as Excel, then sort by the district, dwelling, and family. If your ancestor is in Ward 2, for example, you would copy all the data in the first alpha break-out (Adams thru Bowers) and paste it into a blank spreadsheet.? Then you would copy all the data in the second alpha break-out (Bodwiditch to Coffey) and paste that in beginning with the first blank cells BELOW the data you've already pasted, being careful that the fields line up appropriately with the earlier data.? And so on until it's all pasted in.? Depending on how much memory you have, you might need to break it up into spreadsheets that hold just a few break-outs each. Then, in Excel, go to DATA --> Sort --> and have it sort first by District, then by Dwelling, then by family.? This will bring together everybody in the household that's in that spreadsheet. I hope that makes sense.? Good luck! Bob Miller Chicago -----Original Message----- From: Marsha Ensminger <marshaensminger@yahoo.com> To: nyrensse@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 7:36 pm Subject: Re: [NYRENSSE] Final 1875 NYS Troy Census report Pat, Is there any way to see the entire listing for one household, if more than one surname is involved? For example, in Ward 6 West, dwelling 219, family 328, I find: MADDIGAN, Elisa, age 28, daughter and her three children (husband evidently died even earlier than I realized). If I didn't already know her maiden name, how would I find out that she was living with her (presumably widowed) mother, Isabella LAHEY and a brother John? Many thanks. --- Pat Connors <nymets11@pacbell.net> wrote: > I am happy to say the whole alphabetic index for this census is now > online and the project is completely online (Troy section of my website, > url under my name). I want to thank all the transcribers who took time > out of their busy lives to help others. They are: Bob McConihe, Lynn > Grice, Kay Brearton, Marialice Mangan, Marie McConky, Bev DeFilippis, > Terry Bora, Bob Miller, Sharon King, Sharon Minkel, Joe Murnane, John > Nolan, Gary Craver, Gloria Furry, Pam Trudeau, Colleen Wheeler, Mary > Hoar, Shirley Becker, Ronnie Lorentz, Chuck Casale, and Jeff Gaul. > > If you believe your ancestors were in Troy in 1875 but you can't find > them in the census, try different variations of your surname. Most of > the enumerators could not spell the surnames correctly, some couldn't > spell first names, then there was their handwriting that was extremely > hard to read, at times. So, my suggestion to you, if you can't find > your family, look at every page and ward. Look at the first names and > see if you can find first names, groups of family first names living in > the same place. There were times when 'C' looked like 'L', 'L' looked > like 'S', etc. etc.etc. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > ====NY-RENSSE Mailing List==== > Check out the mailing list's website at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYRensse/ > Add/check you Rensselaer County surnames on the surname registry at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrenss2/ > (under Links) > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYRENSSE-request@rootsweb.com with the > word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ====NY-RENSSE Mailing List==== Check out the mailing list's website at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYRensse/ Add/check you Rensselaer County surnames on the surname registry at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrenss2/ (under Links) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYRENSSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com

In going through the belongings of my late aunt, Mary Agnes Carey, I have found several prayer cards for people who are not related to my family. I suspect most of the deceased lived in South Troy at one time. If anyone recognizes these names and would like to have the prayer card, please write me off-list and I will gladly mail it to you. Remember to include your mailing address! Lynn Carey Grice ********** BUTLER, Patrick J. died 21 June 1966 JACKSON, John died 23 Sep 1938 JACKSON, Elizabeth died 6 Sep 1955 MILLER, Louise died 15 June 1955 MILLER, Paul J died 15 Jul 1969 MOLAN, Patrick J died 20 June 1968