In a message dated 07/27/2001 2:47:31 PM Central Daylight Time, thecatlady@mindspring.com writes: > My understanding is that the White House was burned in 1810 but not > other Federal buildings. _The Source, A Guidebook of American Genealogy_ by Szucs and Luebking and published by Ancestry states that the 1790 census "..... schedules for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia were burned during the War of 1812....." (pg 110). This reference says nothing about the censuses for Tennessee in 1800 and 1810, but it was my understanding that they were burned when the British burned Washington. Don't know where I heard that, but.......... Joyce

----- Original Message ----- From: <CBStark@aol.com> To: <TNSUMNER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [TNSUMNER] Re: 1810 Census If you check Southeastern Genealogy Online at http://www.segenealogy.com/sgo03_tn.htm you will find that: Federal censuses for TN for 1790 and 1800 were lost;Only Grainger and Rutherford Cos. are extant for 1810; only 26 counties in middle and west TN have 1820 census records (they are listed); all counties from 1830 thru 1880 are extant; the 1890 census was lost; and all counties from 1900 thru 1920 are extant, Similar census record availability can be found at this site for all SE states. Richard A. Bain dickbain@charter.net