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From: "Dale Marr" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Heritage - Dale? (Bernie)
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 00:31:43 -0500
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Bernie,

All images for all years are available through browsing. That doesn't mean they're all indexed yet. The states currently indexed for 1900 are AZ, CA, FL, HI, IN, KS, MD, NY, OH, PA, TX, UT, WA, and WI. If you're doing searches for anyone in another state for 1900 you're not going to find him in the index.

Did you find the "Finas Hall" image? I was able to go right to that one by browsing 1900 --> Arkansas --> Izard Co. --> Bryan Twp. I knew from what you'd already posted that they were household #13. When you "browse" the first image in the locale automatically comes up. You'll see an empty box at the top of the page labeled "Go to image ___ of 'x'" where "x" will indicate the number of pages (actually "images" since one page of the census is actually often really two pages). I figured household #13 would be pretty close to the beginning, so I guessed it would be on image 2. It was. Even if you didn't have the household number in this case you'd have to browse no more than eight pages since that's how many pages Bryan Twp. covered. A lot of places took up a lot more pages than that, so unless you have a faster computer than mine it can take a while to search larger areas. (I know; I've done it.)

In cases where you have the page number but not the household number you can still eventually pinpoint the right page by browsing. Note the page number on the first image that comes up. Usually (but not always) you can subtract that page number from the one you're looking for, double the resulting difference, and go to that image number (by entering that number in the "Go to image ___ of 'x'" box). You'll see how close you came when the page number for the new image appears. Sometimes you'll have to go up or down another image or two, but I've found this formula will usually get you in the ballpark.

I'd be happy to look for some of the ones you're not finding. Let me know.

Dale


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