FIY...and thanks, Edith for passing this along! Cathy Hall Grand Island, NY ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:16 PM Subject: [TNMONROE-L] 1890 Census > Got this from another Surname list, though I would pass it on to our List. > > Edith Ward > > > Rooters: > The following is a posting to the newsletter of my local genealogical > society > and thought it might be of interest to the rest of you. > > As you know, 99% of the 1890 census was destroyed by fire. There is a > project to publish a book listing all U.S. residents living at that > time. > This information will be furnished by descendants of those people. > There is > no charge for listing your ancestors and when permission is granted, > contributors will be listed with the proper reference to their ancestor > entries. Submission deadline is April 2000. The data will be published > and > sold at cost with copies going to the Library of Congress, Maine State > Library, Maine State Historical Society and the Church of Jesus Christ > of > Latter-day Saints Library. > > For submitting your ancestor's vital stats please use the following > format: > Head of Household-full name, age, date of birth, place of birth (include > > town-county-state), sex, race (W=white, C=colored, I=Indian, A=Asian). > Spouse-full name, maiden name in ( )'s, age, date of birth, sex, race. > Information source-list family Bible, family genealogy book, etc. Notes > are > optional. Some notes will be added, e.g., 1st or 2nd wife, children by > which > wife, if they died or got married in 1890 or additional surname > spellings. NO > TE: person who died before 1890 or was born after 1890 will be omitted > from > the book. Send your submission via Email to:<chinaDoll2@netscape.net> > or > mail to Agnela M. Foster, P.O.Box 2551, Waterville, ME 04903. > Contributions > are most welcome. > TNGenWeb Bradley County http://www.tngennet.org/bradley Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Bradley Mail List: TNBRADLE-L-request@rootsweb.com TNGenWeb Polk County http://www.tngennet.org/polk Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Polk Mail List TNPOLK-L-request@rootsweb.com