I am Intrested in GRAHAM & HALL Also SOUTHERN/ LAWSON/SHEPHARD If thats not pushing my luck. Thanks Rena ---------- From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [VAWISE-L] Census Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 9:49 PM Hello Rena, You need an Ftp client in order to access this site. Ftp is a program different from the Internet browsers. What are you interested in? I could cut parts of it out and e-mail it to you. Cheryl > -----Original Message----- > From: RENA WORTHEN [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VAWISE-L] Census > > > Can you give the address i cannot access it. Thanks Rena > > ---------- > From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 5:40 AM > > Hello All, > > I found the census information at ftp.ipums.umn.edu. They are in the > /ipums/data directory and stored as a compressed UNIX file. Documentation > is > stored in the /ipums/user_guide directory. A PC program to decompress the > files are in /pub/gzip. > > The census information is huge: The 1850 census is in ip18501.Z > and is 6874 > KB, 1860 is ip18601.Z and is 2060kb, 1870 is ip18701.Z and is > 3337 KB, 1880 > is ip18801.Z and is 21,235KB. Downloading took several hours. The files > decompress to 76,782KB, 22,412KB, 34,948KB and 199,534KB respectively. I > have a Pentium 400 MHz and even it takes several minutes to search through > any of the files. > > I was glad to hear that these would be a good addition, and that I haven't > been wasting time!!! I'll go through the files this weekend and search for > Wise County (and surrounding counties) and post the results. > > Cheryl > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== Please post your family lines to the list perodically, so that newcomers know who is on the list. [email protected] Phyllis Morefield