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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: Re: Free Census on line
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:19:17 -0800 (PST)


At 10:17 PM 2/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Go to http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search.asp and go to the free
>databases and search the 1790 MD census
>
> I would check the Van Deren at that address either today or
>tomorrow (they are only free for 1 or 2 more days)<
>
>But remember that the 1790 cenusus has been printed up in small books for
>each state and is available in MANY MANY large city libraries all over the
>US regardless of the state because they are small and cheap. And if you
>are not in a big place, ask your librarian to arrange a loan or copying for
>you. Use public facilities or they will disappear. So even if it is not
>on the web, take the plunge: leave your house; go to a library!! :>}
>
>Elizabeth W. Knowlton

Good advice Elizabeth. Those books are also available to use at MOST (but
not all) Family History Centers of the Latter-Day Saints Church.

Erin Bradford

Listowner for Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, and Kern
http://members.tripod.com/~Kshai/genealogy.html (my surname databases)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+800 genealogy
links)
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/listdex/index.html (Homepage for Black,
Bradford, Coventry, Hackett, and Kern email groups)

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