Where can someone get these schedules? Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cynthia C Turk" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:49 AM Subject: [OHCUYAHO] Mortality Schedules > "What are mortality schedules?" > > When the federal population census was taken, there were also > non-population schedules. Different ones are available in different > years. Some are extant on microfilm, while others have been lost. The > census taker would ask questions like, "did anyone die in the past year > in this household?" If the answer was yes, he had to fill out another > long form. This was true also for farmers, industrial product producers, > and folks who were deaf, blind, dumb, mentally delayed or impaired, > epileptic, ill, in jail, or on the public dole. In 1890 there was the > veteran schedule. These give a wonderful snapshot of the person's life > and work, and are well worth the effort to find. > In this area the mortality schedules go back to 1850. They offer > about the same information as the later death records did. Unfortunately > it only covers one year prior to the census date once per decade. So in > 1850, for instance, it covered about June 1849 through May 1850. > Cynthia in Lake County > > ------------------------------- > 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 >