[Genealib] This week's chuckle ** African-American censuses

[Trevia Wooster Beverly]

The Patron may have confused the actual "slave [holder] census" (1850, 1860) 
with those for Black households done by African-American Genealogy group ...
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/african/alabama/al_african_american_census.htm

Example:
a.. Cleburne County

  a.. 1870 Federal Census Index, African American Households (hosted at 
Afrigeneas)

  b.. 1880 Federal Census Index, African American Households (hosted at 
Afrigeneas)

Trevia Wooster Beverly

Houston, Texas



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brannan, Joyce A." <jbrannan at uwa.edu>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:09 AM
Subject: RE: [Genealib] This week's chuckle


I had a patron insist that she had seen a slave census for  Alabama and 
Mississippi for 1870 & 1880.  I absolutely could not convince her that there 
were no such censuses.

Joyce Adams Brannan
Julia Tutwiler Library
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu on behalf of Cynthia Van Ness
Sent: Sun 5/11/2008 7:54 PM
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I knew you'd all appreciate this. I had some out of town
genealogists come in this week.  They asked for city directories
and telephone books.  No problem there, we have both.  But they
were interested in people who were here in the 1860s.  I had to
tell them that the telephone hadn't been invented yet.

*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-*
Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com
http://www.BuffaloResearch.com <http://www.buffaloresearch.com/>

"Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living.  City 
living by its definition is crowded.  It is tolerant of other people.  It is 
dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises 
daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city 
generates."     --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)
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