At 04:05 PM 1/17/00 -0800, Karen Page <klpage@access1.net> wrote: >... If any one has any idea how to obtain a copy of >Wilma S. Davis' "The Federal Census of 1860 for Monroe Co., Ohio" >could they please drop me a line. I do not think it is in print. >The library copy of 1860 is so poor, it is illegible... My first comment is that film quality for the 1850 and 1860 federal censuses varies greatly. If you get a chance to look at it at a different library or Family History Center, be sure to do so--you might chance onto a better copy. The library cataloging data for The Federal census of 1860 for Monroe County, Ohio . is a bit confusing to me. Here is what I have found: editor/compiler/whatever: Wilma S. Davis (whom, I suspect, has some connection with the Monroe County Historical Society) Publication year: 1957/1967/1987/1996 Publisher: the editor, or in the 1996 printing, Picton Press Perhaps your best bet for obtaining a copy of the print edition is to contact the Monroe County Historical Society. The Picton Press web site for its Ohio books (http://www.pictonpress.com/catalog/state_oh.htm) shows: - --------------------------------------------------------- MONROE COUNTY, OHIO, The Federal Census of 1860. Compiled by Wilma S. Davis. 608pp. 5½x8½, Perfect bound. Pub. jointly with The Monroe County Historical Society. 1996 (1957). #1751 $34.50 A complete verbatim transcript of the 1860 census for Monroe County, Ohio is reprinted here as a joint venture between The Monroe County Historical Society and Picton Press. All Monroe County researchers and many genealogical libraries will want a copy. - ----------------------------------------------------------- At least the following libraries have a copy of the print edition: OH FPL FINDLAY HANCOCK PUB LIBR OH NPY WESTERN RSV HIST SOC, NEWSP PROJ OH TLM TOLEDO-LUCAS CNTY PUB LIBR CA JTV THOUSAND OAKS PUB LIBR MA GES NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOC OH SLC STATE LIBR OF OHIO CAT CTR IN IMF ALLEN CNTY PUB LIBR OH OUN OHIO UNIV WI WIH STATE HIST SOC OF WISCONSIN MD NAR NATIONAL ARCH LIBR MN MHS MINNESOTA HIST SOC OH APL AKRON-SUMMIT CNTY PUB LIBR OH CLE CLEVELAND PUB LIBR OH MRC MARIETTA COL OH OCO COLUMBUS METROP LIBR OH OCP PUBLIC LIBR OF CINCINNATI/HAMILTON CNTY OH OHT OHIO HIST SOC OH WPL WARREN PUB LIBR OH WRH WESTERN RSV HIST SOC LIBR OH WSU WRIGHT STATE UNIV PA PHA STATE LIBR OF PENNSYLVANIA TX TXN HOUSTON PUB LIBR Your interlibrary loan staff can find out for you which, if any, of these libraries are willing to send a copy to your library. Rollie