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    1. Re: [WIWinneb] Census Between 1880 & 1900
    2. Virgil Jain
    3. I do not want to receive these daily, individual postings. This all started 2 or 3 months ago. Originally, I was receiving the periodical compilation of these messages but somehow it changed to these individual messages. PLEASE STOP! Virgil Jain dartbs@comcast.net On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:05 PM, maramun@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CGC.2ACI/747.1 > > Message Board Post: > > The Federal Census of 1890 was lost in a fire back in the 1920s. The > State of Wisconsin took censuses in 1885 and 1895. However, these > just lists heads of households, plus numbers in categories such as > male and female, or foreign born versus born in US. This is available > on microfilm at the Oshkosh Public Library, through LDS Family History > Centers, or on Interlibrary loan from the Wisconsin Historical > Society. There is no overall index. They did a section for Civil War > veterans, listing their regiment and company of service, plus post > office as of census date. This is in book form at Oshkosh Public > Library and many other larger libraries in Wisconsin. > However, the early Oshkosh City Directories and the 1893 > Winnebago County Directory may be of help to you. > See http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/citydirs/welcome.html. > 1893 is the first directory to cover Neenah, Menasha, Omro Winneconne > and the countryside. The 1889 Illustrated Atlas of Winnebago County > shows landowners; it is being digitized and will be on the web this > fall. > > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

    02/04/2005 10:46:05