You MUST have heard the news by now. The 1880 census of the United States is online at <A HREF="www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</A> Use this census for all it is worth!! Look on the left side of the screen of the website. Please be aware that there have been spelling errors and other errors by transcribers as well as by the original census-taker. You MAY be able to use wild cards--anyway, try. (I was looking for a German family headed by Henze. The census-taker or the transcriber spelled it Hensi. Made a difference!) All of you Williams searchers should use this census to try to find your ancestors who were alive in 1880. (Yes, even Williams is misspelled.) The great thing about 1880 census is that each enumerated person was asked where his parents were born. My Williams, born in KY in 1818, who was in living in coastal area of Texas in 1880, stated, the year before he died, that his father was born in North Carolina and his mother in Kentucky. This indicated that the marriage had probably taken place in KY. It further indicated to me that the two Williams families I was researching in a particular county in Kentucky could be differentiated. One had Virginia roots and another had North Carolina roots. This made a BIG difference in my research efforts. By the way, when you are on the <A HREF="www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</A> website, look for a tab indicating Forms, and another for Research Guides. You can download the PDF forms if you have Adobe (which is downloadable from the website). Explore that website for all its worth. Just take with a grain of salt what you find in some of the databases, which are NOT well documented. One of my Harris ancestors was still making babies when he was 90--and I believe he had long been dead!!! He did have 19 kids, but at age 90!!! No way!! E.W.Wallace (female) a born Williams (but don't ask)

Does anyone know if this census will be online at FamilySearch.org permenantly or is it on for just a certain period of time? Thanks, LG ----- Original Message ----- From: <Hdanw@aol.com> To: <WILLIAMS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: [WILLIAMS] 1880 Census online > You MUST have heard the news by now. The 1880 census of the United States is > online at <A HREF="www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</A> Use this census for all it is worth!! > > Look on the left side of the screen of the website. Please be aware that > there have been spelling errors and other errors by transcribers as well as > by the original census-taker. You MAY be able to use wild cards--anyway, > try. (I was looking for a German family headed by Henze. The census-taker > or the transcriber spelled it Hensi. Made a difference!) > > All of you Williams searchers should use this census to try to find your > ancestors who were alive in 1880. (Yes, even Williams is misspelled.) The > great thing about 1880 census is that each enumerated person was asked where > his parents were born. My Williams, born in KY in 1818, who was in living in > coastal area of Texas in 1880, stated, the year before he died, that his > father was born in North Carolina and his mother in Kentucky. This indicated > that the marriage had probably taken place in KY. It further indicated to me > that the two Williams families I was researching in a particular county in > Kentucky could be differentiated. One had Virginia roots and another had > North Carolina roots. This made a BIG difference in my research efforts. > > By the way, when you are on the <A HREF="www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</A> website, look for a tab > indicating Forms, and another for Research Guides. You can download the PDF > forms if you have Adobe (which is downloadable from the website). > > Explore that website for all its worth. Just take with a grain of salt what > you find in some of the databases, which are NOT well documented. One of my > Harris ancestors was still making babies when he was 90--and I believe he had > long been dead!!! He did have 19 kids, but at age 90!!! No way!! > > E.W.Wallace (female) > a born Williams (but don't ask) > > > ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== > List web page: http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/lists/WILLIAMS.htm > Your WILLIAMS listowner - Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/ > > >