--part1_1a6.1fcd2896.2d548848_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found this on another Rootsweb site, and will share: Tom E. **************** Reference: "Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives," pub. by NARA, 1985, Chapter 1 ("Census Records"), page 12: "1.1.3 Nonpopulation Schedules: Mortality Schedules ... In the years 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880, 'mortality schedules' were returned that contained information on persons who had died during the 12 months prior to the date the census was taken. The entries in some of those schedules give a cause of death." There are other "non-population" schedules as well: the agricultural schedules for the 1850-1880 censuses and the supplemental schedules for the 1880 census, both of which contain the names of individuals. However: "the other non-population schedules contain statistical data, but not the names of individuals" hence, have little utility for the usual genealogical purposes. This reference states further: "The original nonpopulation schedules were distributed to non-federal repositories in 1918 and 1919, long before the establishment of the National Archives. Whenever possible, the National Archives acquires microfilm or published copies of these schedules. Those that are available on microfilm at the National Archives are listed by state in table 4 on pages 15-17. Schedules in the holdings of other repositories are noted state by state in the latter part of this chapter. Further information about their availability appears in 'The Mortality Schedules,' National Genealogical Quarterly 31 (June 1943): 45-49, in 'Federal Population and Mortality Census Schedules, 1700-1910'; and in 'Federal Census Schedules, 1850-80.' Basically, however, the extant Mortality Schedules are organized onto microfilm on a state-by-state basis. As implied by the text cited previously, these are not complete. As an example, here's the listing for Massachusetts (which is essentially complete): Massachusetts T1204 1850 Barnstable County-Plymouth County Roll 9 1850 Suffolk County-Worcester County Roll 10 1860 Barnstable County-Worcester County Roll 17 1870 Barnstable County-Middlesex County Roll 22 1870 Nantucket County-Worcester County Roll 23 1880 Barnstable County-Newburyport, Roll 37 Essex County 1880 Salem, Essex County-Hampshire Roll 38 County 1880 Middlesex County-Norfolk County Roll 39 1880 Plymouth County-Worcester County Roll 40 By contrast, here's the entire listing for Vermont: GR7 1870 Addison County-Windsor County Roll 1 [i.e. only the 1870 Mortality Schedule survives] In fact, there are listings in Table 4 for only 24 states, territories, etc.: Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Entirely absent are Mortality Schedules of: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Finally, here are the contents of each mortality schedule: For the year ending 1 June 1850: Name; age; sex; color (white, black, or mulatto); whether married or widowed; place of birth; occupation; month of death; cause of death; number of days ill. For the year ending 1 June 1860: Name; age; sex; color (white, black, or mulatto); whether slave or free; whether married or widowed; place of birth; occupation; month of death; cause of death; number of days ill. For the year ending 1 June 1870: Name; age; sex; whether white, black, mulatto, Chinese, or Indian; whether married or widowed; place of birth; whether father and mother foreign-born; cause of death. For the year ending 1 June 1880: Name; age; sex; color; marital status; occupation; place of birth; length of residence in the United States; place of birth of father and mother; month of death; cause of death; place cause of death was contracted; name of attending physician. [In Massachusetts, New Jersey, the District of Columbia and nineteen large cities, this information was compiled from official registrations of deaths, and the regular mortality schedules were not used.] >> --part1_1a6.1fcd2896.2d548848_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-xm04.mx.aol.com (rly-xm04.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.105]) by air-xm03.mail.aol.com (v97.18) with ESMTP id MAILINXM32-60a40221553283; Thu, 05 Feb 2004 05:05:46 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by rly-xm04.mx.aol.com (v97.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXM46-60a40221553283; Thu, 05 Feb 2004 05:05:09 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id i15A55Md013346; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 03:05:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 03:05:05 -0700 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Subject: WELLS-D Digest V04 #37 X-Loop: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/volume04/37 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-AOL-IP: 66.43.18.41 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain WELLS-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: #1 [WELLS-L] Re: Mortality Schedules [Marjorie Bridges <[email protected]] #2 Re: [WELLS-L] Mortality Schedules ["Richard" <[email protected]>] #3 [WELLS-L] WELLS in Georgia [[email protected]] #4 [WELLS-L] Re: WELLS in Georgia [[email protected]] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WELLS-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 07:51:09 -0800 (PST) From: Marjorie Bridges <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [WELLS-L] Re: Mortality Schedules Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thank you, Margaret and Dave, for the information on the Mortality Schedules--very quick answer! Margie ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:01:41 -0800 From: "Richard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] Mortality Schedules Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reference: "Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives," pub. by NARA, 1985, Chapter 1 ("Census Records"), page 12: "1.1.3 Nonpopulation Schedules: Mortality Schedules ... In the years 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880, 'mortality schedules' were returned that contained information on persons who had died during the 12 months prior to the date the census was taken. The entries in some of those schedules give a cause of death." There were other "non-population" schedules as well: the agricultural schedules for the 1850-1880 censuses and the supplemental schedules for the 1880 census, both of which contain the names of individuals. However: "the other non-population schedules contain statistical data, but not the names of individuals" hence, have little utility for the usual genealogical purposes. This reference states further: "The original nonpopulation schedules were distributed to non-federal repositories in 1918 and 1919, long before the establishment of the National Archives. Whenever possible, the National Archives acquires microfilm or published copies of these schedules. Those that are available on microfilm at the National Archives are listed by state in table 4 on pages 15-17. Schedules in the holdings of other repositories are noted state by state in the latter part of this chapter. Further information about their availability appears in 'The Mortality Schedules,' National Genealogical Quarterly 31 (June 1943): 45-49, in 'Federal Population and Mortality Census Schedules, 1700-1910'; and in 'Federal Census Schedules, 1850-80.' I have a personal copy of "Genealogical Research in the National Archives," thus have access to its "Table 4" (which occupies nearly three pages of text, so is too long to transcribe for purposes of this email). Basically, however, the extant Mortality Schedules are organized onto microfilm on a state-by-state basis. As implied by the text cited previously, these are not complete. As an example, here's the listing for Massachusetts (which is essentially complete): Massachusetts T1204 1850 Barnstable County-Plymouth County Roll 9 1850 Suffolk County-Worcester County Roll 10 1860 Barnstable County-Worcester County Roll 17 1870 Barnstable County-Middlesex County Roll 22 1870 Nantucket County-Worcester County Roll 23 1880 Barnstable County-Newburyport, Roll 37 Essex County 1880 Salem, Essex County-Hampshire Roll 38 County 1880 Middlesex County-Norfolk County Roll 39 1880 Plymouth County-Worcester County Roll 40 By contrast, here's the entire listing for Vermont: GR7 1870 Addison County-Windsor County Roll 1 [i.e. only the 1870 Mortality Schedule survives] In fact, there are listings in Table 4 for only 24 states, territories, etc.: Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Entirely absent are Mortality Schedules of: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Finally, here are the contents of each mortality schedule: For the year ending 1 June 1850: Name; age; sex; color (white, black, or mulatto); whether married or widowed; place of birth; occupation; month of death; cause of death; number of days ill. For the year ending 1 June 1860: Name; age; sex; color (white, black, or mulatto); whether slave or free; whether married or widowed; place of birth; occupation; month of death; cause of death; number of days ill. For the year ending 1 June 1870: Name; age; sex; whether white, black, mulatto, Chinese, or Indian; whether married or widowed; place of birth; whether father and mother foreign-born; cause of death. For the year ending 1 June 1880: Name; age; sex; color; marital status; occupation; place of birth; length of residence in the United States; place of birth of father and mother; month of death; cause of death; place cause of death was contracted; name of attending physician. [In Massachusetts, New Jersey, the District of Columbia and nineteen large cities, this information was compiled from official registrations of deaths, and the regular mortality schedules were not used.] Richard Irwin [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Marjorie Bridges <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:47 AM Subject: [WELLS-L] Mortality Schedules Does anyone know what years there were Mortality Schedules for the federal census? Also, is there a place to view them online, such as Rootsweb or ancestry.com? Margie ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== Please Support Rootsweb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 4 Feb 2004 17:10:05 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [WELLS-L] WELLS in Georgia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS,HADDEN,BENTON,USRY,WILLIAMS,HOBBS,NEWSOME Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/3806 Message Board Post: I would like to share information with anyone that have WELLS relatives in Georgia in the late 1800s to early 1900s. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: 4 Feb 2004 19:37:17 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [WELLS-L] Re: WELLS in Georgia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/3806.1 Message Board Post: Put it on the list! My WELLS are from Liberty County, GA in the mid 1800s, and before that it looks like either Bertie County, NC or somewhere in SC. My great-great-grandfather was Evan WELLS. Believe his line is referred to as the "Little WELLS." My great-grandfather was Columbus Evan WELLS who was married to Mary Ann GROOVER (descended from the Peter GRUBER of the Salzburger lines). Bob Carter Greensboro, NC -------------------------------- --part1_1a6.1fcd2896.2d548848_boundary--