I also took advantage of this offer. I have the Pile/Piles/Pyle listings for all states downloaded if anyone would like a lookup. I would highly recommend checking all spellings of the name, even if you "know" they went by a certain spelling. ("My" Benjamin was listed as Piles in this census index.) Cyndi Kalczynski cykal@im4u.net ---------- > From: Kensoper@aol.com > To: Pyle-L@rootsweb.com > Cc: Kensoper@aol.com > Subject: Help in locating Pyle families on 1830 census records. > Date: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 8:59 AM > > For anyone who may have the desire to search microfilm records of the 1830 > census for "select" counties of Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, > I recently took advantage of a free trial of the Broderbund World Family Tree > Maker Family Archive CD315. This CD has over two million census records > that were gathered from various U.S. counties in 1830. It is by no ways a > complete record of the census, but it may be helpful to some of you. > > The CD lists the name of the head of the household, followed by the city or > township, county, and state. It then shows the page number of the census > record taken for that particular city or township. You can use this > information to greatly speed up the time spent scrolling through microfilm by > not having to read last names until you reach the page that is listed. > > I only did a search on the above states, since that is where our Pyle > ancestors were known to possibly be around1830. FYI, my wife, Bonnie K. > Pyle, is the great grand-daughter of Thomas W. Pyle (1848-1907) who lived in > Lawrence, County, MO and the great great grand-daughter of Benjamin Pyle > (1815-1875) who we believe was born in Christian County, KY. Peggy Sue Pyle > is also working on this same line and we have been sharing (mostly her > sharing with me) information. > > Anyway, here are the names that I recorded, followed by location, and census > page number. To save typing, I only show first names. The last name will be > Pyle in all cases. If two or more page numbers are shown, it indicates more > than one person with the same first name in that county. > > ILLINOIS: > Abner Perry county 121 > John Perry county 121 & 123 > Samuel St. Clair county 124 > William Perry county 125 > > KENTUCKY: > Abner Christian county 016 > Nicholas Calloway county 194 > Nicholas Hopkinsville, Christian county 021, 023, 004 > Sarah Hopkinsville, Christian county 005 > Thomas Christian county 017 > William Calloway county 190 > William Christian county 022 > William, Jr Christian county 018 > > MISSOURI: > William Wayne county 047 > > TENNESSEE: > John Sumner county 37 > John Tipton county 87 > Joshua Sumner county 38 > William Bledsoe county 70 > William Sumner county 38 > > Please note that the counties shown are by today's boundaries. It is very > possible that some of the county names may have changed since 1830. Good > Luck with this little item. > > Let me know if this helps any of you out in your research. It will be a > while before I get to put it to the test. Our local LDS Genealogy Library > does not have a very large selection of census record microfilm. Someday, I > hope to spend a few days at the West Coast branch of the National Archives > Library. > > Good Luck > Ken Soper, Apple Valley, CA > > >