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From: "S. Deem" <>
Subject: [BLACK-L] Fw: 1880 Census ONLINE
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:51:16 -0500

Thought I'd pass this along to see if anyone can figure it out.
Shirley

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> Subject: 1880 Census ONLINE
> Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 12:32 AM
>
> Howdy all.
> Fred again here with another unusual genealogy site for the brave and
> daring. I don't know where I came up with this one. I had it in my
> bookmarks. It's been lying there to torment me, I'm sure. this databse is
> very large. It is according to the person who posted it, over fifteen
> megabites when compressed. I can't imagine it uncompressed. There is a
> readme file in the directory so you can click on it. I can't get the
> counties file to come up or some of the other ones. The directories
> themselves seem to work and the index seems to have reference to the
names.
> It's all rather cryptic but you should be, with a little patience, able
to
> navigate to the family you are looking for in here
> To quote the author.
>
> The history department at the University of Minnesota has compiled a
> 1% sampling of the 1880 Federal census. The original file (73 megabytes)
is
> a complete accounting of the census enumerations of more than a half
million
> individuals. This data includes information geared to socialogists and
> historians and most of it is expressed in 2 to 4 digit numerical codes
> requiring separate lookup tables.
>
> In order to accomodate such large data and more than 107,000 files,
> I have had to create a rather extensive directory structure in the form
of:
> /state.or.territory/county.code/enumeration.district/filename
>
> Here is an an entry from the index:
> HALMAN CHARLES WI/1110/0256/106488
> Charles HALMAN is found in the State of Wisconsin, county code 1110,
> which happens to be Sauk County, enumeration district 0256. The file
name
> is 106488. The paths are relative to /pub/1880/. To download the file in
> which
> Charles Halman appears, issue this FTP command:
> get /pub/1880/WI/1110/0256/106488
> Each file lists every person in the household in the same order as
> they appeared in the census.
> The two-letter postal codes for the states are used as directory
> names. These are the codes I devised for the directory names
representing
> territories: AT - Alaska Terr. NT - New Mexico Terr.
> DT - Dakota Terr. UR - Utah Terr. IT - Idaho Terr. WT - Washington Terr.
> MR - Montana Terr. WR - Wyoming Terr.
>
> Good luck. Hope some of you can find some relatives in this thing.
>
>
>
> ftp://ftp.genealogy.org/pub/1880/
>
>
>
> http://www.alaska.net/~fsalter Home Page of Fred and Mary Salter in
Eagle
> River, AK
> mailto:
> http://www.alaska.net/~fsalter/html/surnames.html
> SURNAME Listing now 14,531 names.
>
> My wife's names In mostly in Tennessee:
> CARNAHAN, COOL, EVANS, GREEN, GIBBS,
> HAND, HOLLOWAY, LOMBARD, LOWERY,
> MILES, MORRIS, NEWBY, PICKNELL,
> PROCTOR, PUGH, REYNIER,SIMS, TEITURIER,
> THURMAN, WALDEN, WALKER, WALLACE,
> WILSON, YOUNG
>
> My Names mostly in England:
> BAYER, CARTER, DORRICOTT, EVANS, FOLDING,
> FOWLER, GARBETT, HUMPHERSON, JACKSON,
> JORDAN, KARACSONYI, MILLARD, PARTON,
> PERRY, SALTER, WILLIAMS
>
>
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