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From: Harriette Jensen <>
Subject: Re: [KS-RAILROADS] Railroad workers in Sumner County KS
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:17:53 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20020524152812.17998.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com>


Hi, Cal.

You must have only seen the index. There is a search engine near the
bottom of the main Sumner County page that searches all of the site,
including the censuses. When I used that I found many JONES. However,
the ones in the 1895 census were not railroad workers... they were
brick masons, lawyers, and retired folks.

Also, this is still a partial transcription, of only the largest cities
in Sumner County. I just received another film (there's 1 more after
that) and will be transcribing it over the next couple of months.
Since your folks may have lived "just outside" or "near" a town, you
might want to check back on a periodic basis.

BTW, we've got a lot of SMITHs in Sumner, also <g>

Harriette
--- Cal Reinecke <> wrote:
> Hi Hariette,
>
> I was quite interested in the Sumner County, KS 1895
> census; I didn't know there was a state census so
> late. I was very interested, because my antecedents
> were all railroad engineers back then, and lived in
> Sumner County, working for the Missouri Pacific.
> Unfortunately, they do not appear in Conway Springs
> (where great grandfather died in 1929) and your index
> is really just a surname listing, since it is not
> keyed to any data; not very helpful for someone
> surnamed Jones. But thanks for your effort; I will
> try to find the state census elsewhere, now that I
> know of it.
>
> Have a great day.
>
> Cal



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