{"id":102,"date":"2013-08-28T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyblog.arleneeakle.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:21:46","slug":"new-york-censuses-and-substitutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyblog.arleneeakle.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"New York Censuses and Substitutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York is one of the few states where the original<\/strong> handwritten enumerations made by the Federal marshals have survived.\u00a0 Seems New York county clerks took the census preservation law seriously and kept the Federal schedules.\u00a0 They made copies<\/strong> to send to the government in Washington.<\/p>\n

Check William Dollarhide,\u00a0 New York Censuses and Substitutes:\u00a0 An Annotated Bibliography of State Censuses, Census Substitutes, and Selected Name Lists in Print, on Microfilm, or Online, with County Boundary Maps, 1683-1915; and State Census Examples and Extraction Forms, 1825-1925.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Foreword by Gordon L. Remington.\u00a0 Bountiful UT:\u00a0 Family Roots Publishing, 2005.<\/p>\n

Dollarhide combed library catalogs, printed source compilations, periodical indexes and articles, personal files and knowledge of New York’s premier librarians and professional genealogists in his hunt for census data and dated name lists.\u00a0 The result is a county-by-county inventory of sources with locations of originals and descriptions of copies and call numbers.<\/p>\n

I would like to add the three different versions<\/strong> of the 1790 census “west of the Massachusetts Exemption Line” along the western border of Lake Seneca:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 “Ontario County–Canandaigua Town, Erwin Town, Genessee Town, and Jerusalem Town.”\u00a0 Printed in Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790<\/strong><\/em> (Washington DC:\u00a0 Government Printing Office, 1908 and reprinted numerous times), p. 138.\u00a0 Names are listed in each of the four New York towns <\/strong>established at that time.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 “Region West of the old Massachusetts pre-emption line, 1790.” Printed in Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York<\/strong> <\/em>by Orasmus Turner (Buffalo:\u00a0 Jewett, Thomas & Co., 1849; reprint in two volumes, Heritage Books, Bowie MD, 1991).\u00a0 Appendix 9, pp. 479-80.\u00a0 Names are presented by township and Range<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 “Updated residence towns of Ontario County’s families, 1790.” Printed in “Towns and Families of Ontario County, New York–1790,” Heritage Quest 46 (1993): 54-57 written by Fred Q. Bowman.\u00a0 Names are presented by modern town and county<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In each of these versions, spellings differ and arrangement of names–who is listed next to whom–is different.\u00a0 Some names are included in one list and not found in the other two.\u00a0 Might be a good idea to check the original Federal schedule to see how marshal General Amos Hall wrote the names at the time.<\/p>\n

Be careful of the indexed versions online–at Ancestry.com<\/strong><\/em>, Heritage Quest.com<\/strong><\/em>, and FamilySearch.com<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 You can determine what version each of these databases used by the results you get.<\/p>\n

Be sure you check all of the versions listed above to ensure that you have everybody named in the 1790 census for Western New York–all the way from Seneca Lake to Niagara Falls.\u00a0 Your favorite New York genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com <\/a><\/p>\n

PS\u00a0 I am presenting a two-part presentation on New York Research at the Mid-West Family History Expo, 6-7 September 2013 in Kearney NE<\/strong> at the Holiday Inn.\u00a0 Why not sign-up and learn some new facts about New York?\u00a0 I promise you that you will go away with your money’s worth if those are the only two sessions you attend!<\/p>\n

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