Hi Yvonne and Steve:
Great Work, & we do appreciate your Doing this. Your Time, Money & Patience in
this can be a great help to a lot of people, & we want to take time & Thank you.
If your problem has been in getting out the information it, might have been
done easier & got out to more people if you had checked with & worked in
conjunction with the http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/. I believe that they
would have been very interested in your work & they would have been a excellent
way to get out the word on the great work that you are doing. Keep up the great
work, & we are very thankful to have you & others, with the idea of helping
others with their family histories.
I am one of those that are having a big problem in locating where in Virginia
that my great great grandfather, Harvey McCoy b: December 23, 1813 in Virginia,
or could now be West Virginia or part of a neighboring State was born & the
names of his parents/siblings.
Good Luck & Thank You
Gayle M. Garrett
<[log in to unmask]>
Trego Co., Ks. Genweb Coordinator
<http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/trego/index.html>
Graham Co., Ks. Genweb Coordinator
<http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html>
Yvonne and Steve wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have followed this thread with a bit of disappointment. We have been
> working very hard on recreating a 1790 and 1800 Virginia Census for about 18
> months. We post update notices to this list as well as others to let
> everyone know what's new on our web site. But it seems apparent from the 2
> messages below that we have done a poor job getting our message out. This is
> no ones fault but our own. So we want to "toot our horn" and let you know
> what we do.
>
> We are trying to recreate the lost 1790 and 1800 Virginia Censuses from
> county tax lists. We have identified 90 counties and 7 independent cities
> for this effort. We get tax list microfilms and search them for the best
> images for "1790" and "1800". Many times these specific years are of poor
> image quality so we go up/down 2 years to find the best images possible. We
> photocopy each tax list and scan it into our computer. We resize these
> images to minimze the file size and then upload these images to our web
> site. Then we index each list with every name we can decipher. We wrote a
> special software program that reads our indexes and creates HTML index pages
> that includes a link to the tax list page image for every name in our index.
> All the index pages are then uploaded to the Master Index and to the County
> Index. We have included a search engine that you can use to search for names
> of anyone you enter. The search results have been specialized so that the
> resulting names include the link to the image. We have tried to make our web
> site as useful as we can.
>
> We are not Ancestry.com and we don't have a big staff and a big budget. We
> are not USGenWeb with a highly visible network and many, many volunteers. We
> are just 2 individuals that have real jobs and a great hobby. Our web site
> is our passion, and it's free. It's purpose is to help you with an alternate
> source for 2 missing censuses. It's a lot of work and we don't get any
> funding. Here's a summary of what we have online:
>
> 32 counties
> 133 tax lists
> 131 tax lists are indexed
> 1,139 tax list pages as jpeg images for "1790"
> 1,263 tax list pages as jpeg images for "1800"
> 32,515 names in our "1790" census Master Index
> 37,064 names in our "1800" census Master Index
>
> We are currently working on Caroline County and King William County. Next
> month we hope to add at least 3 more counties. We know this is a slow
> process but we try to do our best.
>
> We want to make sure that everyone knows this information is available. We
> have tried to get as much publicity as possible but many of these efforts
> have failed for various reasons. This is apparent by Bev's statement "to my
> knowledge". We are going to finish this project no matter how long it takes.
> And we invite all of you to visit our web site to see what we have. It's
> located at:
>
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/index.htm
>
> Please spread the word. The web site is for all of you. It's an answer to
> Sue's question "How do you all get around this?".
>
> Steve and Bunny
> "1790" / "1800" County Tax Lists of Virginia
> Alternative 1790 and 1800 Virginia Censuses
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R&S Patterson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:43 AM
> Subject: [VAROOTS] 1800 Va
>
> > Can someone tell me why there is no 1800 census for the state of VA? Is
> > there any sort of alternate documentation that would be a substitute? I'm
> > finding this very limiting in terms of locating my people who were here,
> but
> > not counted, then died before the next one. How do you all get around
> this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sue Lester Patterson
> > mailto:[log in to unmask]
> >
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] 1800 Va
>
> >
> > It's my understanding that both the 1790 and 1800 census were destroyed.
> The
> > 1790 census has been somewhat restated using tax records but no such
> effort
> > has been made for 1800 to my knowledge.
> >
> > Bev
> >
> > ---
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