I would be glad to help, just let me know what I can do. On 9/11/07, Tim Doyle <tim@greenscourt.com> wrote: > > The Whitney Research Group's Census Identification Project is progressing > well! For those of you who might be unfamiliar with it, we are attempting > to > identify every Whitney listed on the early census records and link the > census entry to the family group pages, and vice versa. This work has > allowed us to make many connections that we have never made before - the > pieces are starting to fall into place. > > 1790 Census: NEARLY COMPLETE > > We have been able to identify 367 of the 385 (95%) of the Whitneys on the > 1790 census! The states of MA, CT, ME, and RI have been 100% identified. > VT > (93%), NY (91%), and NH (89%) are nearly complete, but NC (50%), PA (50%), > and SC (0%) need more work. Jeanne Neilon has agreed to help us out with > our > understanding of the southern Whitney families. We need to get the > Whitneys > of the south better documented, but we need help! Neither Robert nor I are > experts in southern research. > > 1800 Census: ONGOING > > We have been able to identify all but 101 Whitney households > > 1810 and later Censuses: NOT YET STARTED > > How can you help? We need volunteers who have subscriptions to the > Ancestry.com census records to help with extracting the 1830 census. If > you > have access and would be willing to help, please contact me. > > Related Web Pages: > > Main WRG Website: http://wiki.whitneygen.org/ > Census Identification Project Page: > http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Census_Identification_Project > > > Thank you! > > Tim Doyle & Robert Ward > Whitney Research Group Website Co-Administrators > http://wiki.whitneygen.org/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: whitney-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:whitney-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Tim Doyle > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:16 PM > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WHITNEY] FW: WRG Census Project > > > We've all searched the census records as we've traced our own families. We > typically start with the most recent census and then work backwards, > following our family back through time. If we're lucky enough to get back > to > 1840 and earlier, we hope that we've identified the right family as only > the > head of household's name is listed. Each of us typically does this on our > own, but what if we get it wrong? What if two of us claim the same person > in > one of these earlier census records and one of us is wrong? How would we > ever know? What if someone mysteriously shows up in a location, and leaves > no trail of where he came from? How can he be identified? To solve these > issues, Robert and I have undertaken yet another WRG project! > > Name: The Census Identification Project > > Goal: Gain a better understanding of Whitney families by analyzing census > records. Identify each Whitney in the census and create links between each > census extract and the appropriate Family Group Page (FGP). > > Steps: > 1. Start with 1790 & move to the next census when complete. > 2. Re-extract the census entries > 3. Identify individuals (using search, locality pages, etc.) > 4. Create links from census extract pages to/from FGPs > 5. Create new FGPs as new families are identified > 6. Make and document any new learnings > > Benefits: > 1. Allows us to follow each family through the census > 2. Allows us to identify families who moved by the process of elimination > 3. Allows us to identify those missing from the published census indexes > and attempt to find them > > We're about 2/3 of the way through the 1790 census and we've already made > a > few connections. > > Robert Ward has stated "the analysis of the 1790 census entries has led me > to some connections I hadn't made before. It has also led me to the > realization that we are close to a tipping point, and to having a critical > mass of data. Once we pass that point, we should be able to make even > more > connections, and when someone posts a query, we are, and will be, more and > more able to answer it." > > > Tim Doyle & Robert Ward > Whitney Research Group Website Co-Administrators > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WHITNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WHITNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Janet Whitney Duffield