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Subject: [NYERIE-L] Fw: Complete 1880 US Census on LDS CD
Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:33:14 -0700
Resent-From: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:43:14 +0700
From: "J.M. (Jack) DUKESBURY" <jmdukesbury@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com
To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com

Looks like great news to me and I have already placed my order.

Jack DUKESBURY
Jakarta, Indonesia

----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Ardine <downeast@tir.com>
To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: Complete 1880 US Census on LDS CD


> Forwarded from Quaker-Roots-L:
>
> Have you heard??
> The LDS are releasing an extracted form (not scans of the originals) of
> the US 1880 Census on June 1 in a 56-CD set (35 of data, 20 of index, and
> 1 viewer) for $49.00!! Check with http://familysearch.org for ordering
> instructions.
>
> It contains 50.5 milliion names, twice the number on the Ellis Island
> Records, and covers all "38 states, 8 territories, excluding only the
> Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma" then in the Union. "It is a
> fully extracted record, with every name indexed."
>
> "The 1880 U.S. Census is the most complete database published by the
> Church to date and contains each individual's full name, relationship to
> head of the house, age, gender, race, marital status, occupation,
> birthplace, and the birthplace of the individual's parents....
>
> "[A] powerful search engine is included with the CD that makes it
> possible to find a person through 'bits and pieces' and 'wild card'
> searches. Bits and pieces means each category can be in a search. A
> wild card search is where one or more letters, such as the easily
> mistaken r, y and v can be replaced by an asterisk. The census also
> allows viewing of neighboring families."
>
> The 1881 Canadian Census is currently extracted and is being processed
> for finalization, date of release not known yet, but will be "soon."
>
> --DESERET NEWS LDS CHURCH NEWS, May 26, 2001, p. 5, Col. 1.
> Feel free to copy to others, as long as you retain the source info at the
> bottom of the article.
>
> Nancy in Utah
> "I collect cousins"
> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~roney
> tnmitchell@juno.com
>
> Another person posted:
>
> I have heard that it will be on backorder until late summer, though.
> My local Gen Society purchased it (among other CDs) at the NGS Conference
in
> Portland OR a couple of weeks ago.
>


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