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From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Heritage - Dale?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:47:50 -0700
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Dale

I feel so stupid! I have been trying to follow your directions utilizing
Advanced Search and just now saw the BROWSE is the upper left hand corner.

Duh.

Let me see if I can pull it off.

Bernie Moore-Knowles
Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aloa, Hawai'i


"I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
question my honesty." ........Will Rogers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Heritage - Dale?


> Dale
>
> Let me reread this last note from you - but, really - I couldn't even find
> the Finas Halls - so, I am obviously not following directions very well,
am
> I? LOL
>
> Trying to find Thomas Smith, Barren Creek Township, Baxter Co., Arkansas,
> born April 1866 MO, household #114/114 .
>
> Will you try it and see?
>
> Bernie Moore-Knowles
> Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aloa, Hawai'i
>
>
> "I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
> question my honesty." ........Will Rogers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Marr" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Heritage - Dale? (Bernie)
>
>
> > 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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> >
> >
>
>
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