I always advise everyone going to purchase a cd of any kind from any place to find someone who has this FIRST and see what exactly is in it, their opinion of it, what is there, what is missing, etc........most of FTM cds are only partials and many of the other cds are like this as well. For example: it will say on a state (or group of states) marriages that they are from this xxxx date to that xxxx date for these states and counties within -- what they may not say is that although one county has the marriages to most current xxxx date that the majority of the rest of them may only be to 1830 or 1850 at the latest. My best, Judy M. At 04:03 PM 7/26/1999 -0500, you wrote: >To all: > >Is anyone aware of any data missing from the original 1850 US Census, and if >not, why would FTM sell an incomplete CD without some form of explanation? > >Anyone planning to buy, or having just bought the newly-released Family Tree >Maker Family Archive CD 453, which is the 1850 Census Microfilm Records for >Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, should consider the following >information. > >According to their online literature, this Family Archive, a 6-CD set, >indexes approximately 337,000 heads of household listed in the 1850 federal >census from four southern states. It includes 123,322 individuals from >Alabama, 40,238 individuals from Arkansas, 96,813 individuals from >Louisiana, and 76,709 individuals from Mississippi. > >What FTM DOES NOT tell you in their literature is that CD 453 IS NOT >COMPLETE. > >CD 453 does not contain the full 1850 census for the states noted above. >Suspecting that the numbers quoted above are indeed low, I called Family >Tree Maker twice in the last four days and was told by one person that the >CD is 80% complete, and told by another person that some counties were not >included. Neither of these customer representatives could tell me what >counties were missing, nor from what state. > >Any thoughts? > >Jim > > > > > > > >