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THIRD EDITION

THE HANDY BOOK

FOR

GENEALOGISTS

State and County Histories

Maps

Libraries

Bibliographies of Genealogical Works

Where to Write for Records/ etc.

By
George B. Everton, Sr.
and
Gunnar Rasmuson

Published by

THE EVERTON PUBLISHERS

526 North Main Logan, Utah

THE EVERTON PUBUSHERS

Printed by
The Herald Printing Co.

\^^i PREFACE

For the third time since September 1949, ten thousand copies of
THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS have come off the press.
When this latest edition has been distributed, 30,000 copies of this in-
formative and easy to use guide will be in the hands of appreciative
researchers. Since several hundreds of them have gone into that many
libraries in various sections of the country, it is safe to estimate that
many times 30,000 individuals will consult this important reference work
in the years to come.

Many new features have been added to this publication to assist
genealogical as well as other researchers. We are especially proud of
the fact that maps of each one of the forty-eight states are included, show-
ing their county boundaries. Maps of most of the European countries are
also included extending its range and effectiveness.

What was said four years ago in the preface to the second edition,
^ can be said with even more emphasis today — genealogical activities have
^ multiplied tremendously in the past few years. More researchers are at

^ work today than ever before. More family histories are available than at
^ any previous time. More books containing vital statistics have been

$ printed. More microfilms are obtainable by many times the former

*^ supply and more high class reading machines have become part of the

necessary equipment of up-to-date libraries. All of these improvements

i^mean that it is far easier today to gather genealogical information than

^ever before. All of these important improvements will continue to multi-

'^ply in years to come.

M THE EVERTON PUBLISHERS appreciate their large clientele of loyal
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^and European nations. It is our fervent hope that researchers every-
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^ permission to reproduce many of the maps used in this publication.
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Alabama

Capital, Montgomery

The first permanent white settlers Baldwin, Blount, Cabela which in 18-0
to establish homes in Alabama camo there became Biggs, Clarke, Conecuh, Cotaco
in 1702, although some historians say ^hich in 1821 became Morgan, Dallas,
1699. About one hundred seventy four Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lime-
years earlier the Spanish explorers De stone, Madison, Marengo, Marion, Mont-
Narvaes and Cabeza de Vaca passed go^ery, Monroe, St. Clair, Shelby, Tusca-
through the section on their explora- ^^osa, and Washmgton.
tion trips. The first white settlers to Alabama officially became a ^tate on
move into the territory were Spanish December 14, 1819.

and French. They established Mobile in The official census reports show the

1702 as the first community. Alabama population to be 127,901 in

To evade participation in the Revolu- 1820, 309,527 in 1830, 590,756 in 1840, and

tionary War many British sympathizers 771,623 in 1850. It passed the million mark

living in Georgia moved westward into sometime in the 1870-1880 period, and

the Alabama section in 1775. They were in 1950 had surpassed the three million

followed in 1783 by other planters from mark, of which two-thirds was white. All

Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas. of Alabama's first census, taken in 1820,

A group of Scotch-Irish who had tried has been lost. All other census records

farming in Tennessee in 1809 settled in are intact. Less that ten thousand of

the northern part of Alabama, in the the 1950 population were foreign born,

rich Tennessee Valley district. In the coming mainly from Italy, Germany,

early 1800s former Carolinians and Vir- England, Russia, and Greece,

ginians came into the central part of At present Alabama has sixty-seven

the territory. Other groups from the counties.

same section came to the western part ^he Bureau of Vital Statistics, De-

of Alabama along the Tombigbee and partment of Public Health, Montgomery

the Black Warrior rivers. But it was 4 Alabama, has birth and death records

not until the end of the War of 1812 g^^ce 1908. Similar records prior to 1908

that Alabama saw a real influx of set- ^re kept in the office of the respective

tiers. The conclusion of that war was the county clerks. Marriage records are in

begmmng of a gigantic southward and counties where the Probate Courts also

westward movement which resulted in j,ave old records of deeds and wills,

statehood for four territories between g^^^ Alabama counties have court hous-

1816 and 1819. Alabama was the last of ^^ ^^ cities or towns in addition to the

the four to gain statehood. ^^^nty seats. The records in those

Previously the territory of Alabama places must be searched as well as those

had been created from the Territory of at the county seat. Undoubtedly the

Mississippi on March 3, 1817. St. Stephens Alabama Department of Archives and

became the capital of the territory. In History, Montgomery, Alabama, may be

November 1818 Cahaba, a community ex- able to furnish some information or give

isting only in the blue-print stage, with- directions to other sources,

out buildings or a population, was made Although not so large as in some

the capital. states, the Alabama Department of Ar-

So great had been the influx of people chives and History, Montgomery, Ala-
into that south-western section that two bama, has a considerable collection of
years and four months after Alabama genealogy and biography pertaining to
had become a Territory a political the south. Copies of the federal census
convention prepared a state constitution, of Alabama are also deposited there.
This gathering was held on July 5, Sixteen Alabama cities have public
1819 in the temporary state capital, libraries, and twenty-three have college
Huntsville, the seat of Madison county, libraries. Among the cities with the
located between the Tennessee River larger libraries are the following:
and the southern boundry of the state Anniston, Calhoun county; Gadsden, Eto-
of Tennessee. Representatives were pres- wah county; Birmingham, Jefferson
ent from the then existing twenty-two county; Huntsville, Madison county; Mo-
counties of Alabama, namely, Autaga, bile. Mobile county; Montgomery, Mont-

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

gomery county; Tuskaloosa, Tuskaloosa
county.

Among books dealing with Alabama in-
dividuals are the following which can
be found in many libraries throughout
the nation.

Brewer, Willis: Alabama, Her History
and Public Men, 1872.

Owen, Thomas M., Director Alabama
Dept. of Archives and History, Revolu-
tionary Soldiers in Alabama, 132 pp.
Montgomery Ala., The Brown Printing
Co.. 1911.

Owen, Thomas M. Our State, Alabama.

1927.

Ala. Society of the SAR, Roster and
Roll of Honor, 1903-1952 (Contains names
of 263 Rev. soldiers.)

A partial list of Alabama libraries —
Anniston, (Calhoun), Carnegie Library;
Birmingham, (Jefferson), Public Li-
brary, 700, N. 21st St.; Florence, (Lauder-
dale), Muscle Shoals Regional Library,
210 N. Wood Ave.; Gadsen, (Etowah, Pub-
lic Library, Forest Ave.; Mobile, (Mo-
bile), Public Lbirary, 701 Government
St.; Montgomery, (Montgomery), 131
S. Perry St.

Alabama County Histories

Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Autauga
Baldwin

Barbour
Bibb

Blount
Bullock

Choctaw

Clarke

Clay

Cleburne

Coffee

Colbert

Conecuh

Coosa

Covington

Crenshaw

Cullman

Dale

Dallas

DeKalb

Elmore

Escambia
Etowah

Fayette
Franklin

Geneva
Greene

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Inaex Formed By M Available

D4
C2

B3
D4

Butler E3

Calhoun B3

Chambers C4

Cherokee B4

Chilton C2

Dl
El
C3
B4
E3
Al
E2
C3
E3
E3

1818
1809

1832
1818

1818
1866

1819
1832
1832
1836
1868

1847
1812
1866
1866
1841
1867
1818
1832
1821
1866

29
18

29
16

19
27
14
12
31
40
22
12
40
19

1824
1818

1868
1819

19
26

1830-80
1830-80

1850-80
1830-80

1830-80
1870-80

29 1830-80

80 1860-80

40 1840-80

18 1840-80

27 1880

1850-80
1830-80
1870-80
1870-80
1850-80
1870-80
1830-80
1840-80
1830-80
1870-80

B2 1877 49 1880

E4 1824 21 1830-80

D2 1818 56 1830-80

A3 1836 45 1840-80

C3 1866 32 1870-80

E2 1868 31 1870-80

B3 1868 94 1870-80

1830-80
1830-80

Parent County

County Seat

26 1870-80
16 1830-80

Montgomery Prattville

Washington,

part of Florida Bay Minette

Creek Cession 1812 .... Clayton & Eufaula
Monroe, Montgomery Centerville

changed from Cabela 1820
Cherokee Cession, Montgomery .... Oneonta
Barbour, Macon,

Montgomery, Pike Union Springs

Conecuh, Montgomery Greenville

Creek Cession of 1832 Anniston

Creek Cession of 1832 La Fayette

Cherokee Cession 1835 Centre

Autauga, Bibb, Perry, Shelby .... Clanton

Changed from Baker 1874

Sumter, Washington Butler

Washington Grove Hill

Randolph, Talladega Ashland

Calhoun, Randolph, Talladega .... Heflin

Dale Elba and Enterprise

Franklin Tuscumbia

Monroe Evergreen

Creek Cession of 1832 Rockfcrd

Henry Andalusia

Butler, Coffee, Covington,

Lowndes, Pike Luverne

Blount, Morgan, Winston Cullman

Covington, Henry Ozark

Montgomery Selma

Cherokee Cession of 1835 .... Fort Payne
Autauga, Coosa,

Montgomery, Tallapoosa .... Wetumpka

Baldwin, Conecuh Brewton

Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Dekalb,

Marshall, St. Clair Gadsden

ch. from Blaine 1868
Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa .... Fayette
Cherokee & Chickasaw

Cession of 1816 Russellville

Dale, Henry, Coffee Geneva

Marengo, Tuscaoosa Eutav/

County Map of Alabama

LAUDERDALE
COLBERT

LIME-
STONE

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MARION

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WINSTON

MADISONI

JACKSON

MORGAN / MAR- /qe KALB

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PICKENS

JEFFERSON

TUSCALOOSA

CLAY

HALE

SUMTER

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4 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Hale C2 1867 21 1870-80 Greene, Marengo,

Perry, Tuscaloosa Greensboro

Henry E4 1819 19 1830-80 Conecuh Abbeville

Houston E4 1903 47 Dale, Geneva, Henry Dothan

Jackson A3 1819 39 1830-80 Cherokee Cession of 1816 .... Scottsboro

Jefferson B2 1819 559 1830-80 Blount Birmingham

Lamar Bl 1867 16 1880 Jones Vernon

Lauderdale Al 1818 54 1830-80 Cherokee & Chickasaw

Cession in 1816 Florence

Lawrence A2 1818 27 1830-80 Cherokee Q Chickasaw

Cession 1816 Moulton

Lee C4 1866 45 1870-80 Chambers, Macon,

Russell, Tallapoosa Opelika

Limestone A2 1818 36 1830-80 Cherokee & Chickasaw

Cession 1816 Athens

Lowndes D3 1830 18 1830-80 Butler, Dallas, Montgomery Hayneville

Macon D4 1832 31 1840-80 Creek Cession of 1832 Tuskegee

Madison A3 1808 73 1830-80 Cherokee & Chickasaw

Cession 1806-7 Huntsville

Marengo Dl 1818 27 1830-80 Choctaw Cession of 1816 Linden

Marion Bl 1818 27 1830-80 Tuscaloosa Hamilton

Marshall A3 1836 45 1840-80 Blount, Cherokee Cession 1835,

Jackson Guntersville

Mobile Fl 1817 231 1830-80 West Florida Mobile

Monroe E2 1815 26 1830-80 Creek Cession 1814,

Washington Monroeville

Montgomery D3 1816 139 1830-80 Monroe Montgomery

Morgan A2 1818 53 1830-80 Cherokee Turkeytown Cession Name

changed from Cotaco 1821 Decatur

Perry C2 1819 20 1830-80 Montgomery Marion

Pickens CI 1820 24 1830-80 Tuscaloosa Carrollton

Pike E3 1821 31 1830-80 Henry, Montgomery Troy

Randolph C4 1832 23 1840-80 Creek Cession 1832 Wedowee

Russell D4 1832 40 1840-80 Creek Cession 1832 Phenix City

St. Clair B3 1818 27 1830-80 Shelby Pell City

Shelby C2 1818 30 1830-80 Montgomery Columbiana

Sumter CI 1832 24 1840-SO Choctaw Cession of 1830 .... Livingston

Talladega C3 1832 64 1840-80 Creek Cession of 1832 Talladega

Tallapoosa C4 1832 35 1840-80 Creek Cession of 1832 Dadeville

Tuscaloosa C2 1818 94 1830-80 Cherokee & Choctaw

Cession 1816 Tuscaloosa

Walker B2 1823 64 1830-80 Marion, Tuscaloosa Jasper

Washington El 1800 16 1830-80 Mississippi Terr., Baldwin Chatom

Wilcox D2 1819 23 1830-80 Dallas, Monroe ! Camden

Winston B2 1850 18 1860-80 Walker, name changed from

Hancock 1858 Double Springs

Note — All 1820 Census records are missing.

nzona

Capital, Phoenix

The first white people to come to European explorer came into the region
Arizona were attracted there by the tale but it was about one hundred fifty years

of the fabulous "Seven Cities of Cibola"
which they had heard time and again in
Mexico City. As early as 1539 the first

later before Catholic missions were start-
ed among the Indians. Tuscon became a
village about the time the American

ARIZONA

colonies along the Atlantic coast were
fighting their mother country in the
Revolutionary War. As a section of New
Mexico, Arizona came under the owner-
ship and guidance of Mexico in 1821.

At the close of the Mexican War in
1848, a new dispute arose relative to ihe
ownership of a tract of land at the inter-
national border. To alleviate any further
difficulties the United States minister to
Mexico, James Gadsen, negotiated a deal,
very unpopular in Mexico, by which the
United States paid ten million dollars for
slightly less than 50.000 square miles of
land, lying south of the Gila River and
extending east from the California
border to the Rio Grande River.

From the beginning the new territory
attracted very few settlers. In 1870,
seven years after Arizona became an
organized territory, the entire state held
less than ten thousand residents. In the
forty year period that followed the
Arizona population increased twenty
fold, and the following half century more
than trebled the 1910 population. The
1950 census placed Arizona with three
quarters of a million inhabitants. Since
then Arizona stands in the foremost
ranks among the states with the highest
growth percentage.

The foreign born population of Arizona
comes in the following order: Mexico,
Canada, England and Wales, Germany,
Russia, Italy, Poland, Austria, Sweden,
Greece, Ireland, Scotland, Yugoslavia, and
Czechoslovakia.

Since 1850 many Mormon families from
Utah have settled in Arizona. In fact,
in several large agricultural districts,
the Mormon population predominates.
The tremendous population increase
since the nineteen forties is due to an
extent to the Second World War activi-
ties. Many of the thousands of young
men from all parts of the United States
who had trained for the Armed Forces
in the Arizona military camps returned
to the state after the war and established
their homes.

Arizona was the forty eighth state to
be admitted to the union, February 14,
1912. The state is the thirty seventh in
population rank in the union. In 1940
it was the forty third, which is evidence
of its rapid growth. Its largest cities
are according the the 1950 census:
Phoenix, 106,818; Tucson, 45,454; Mesa,
16,790; Douglas, 9,442, and Yuma, 9,145.

Established in July 1909, the Division
of Records and Statistics, State Depart-

ment of Health, Phoenix, Arizona has
birth and death records available since
that date, and also similar records origi-
nating in the county seats since 1887.

Marriage records are on file with the
Clerk of the Superior Court "of county
in which the license was issued.

Divorce actions are maintained by the
Clerk of the Superior Court in county
seat where the action was granted.

Citizenship or naturalization papers are
filed in the district court of the county
where examination was conducted; also
in the office of the clerk of the United
States district courts in Tucson, Tomb-
stone, Phoenix, Prescott, and Solomon-
ville.

All real estate records are on file in
the office of the recorder of the county
in which the land is located.

The 1850 and the 1860 census of Arizona
were taken as part of New Mexico. A ter-
ritorial census of 1864 is in the office
of the Secretary of State in the capitol
in Phoenix.

The best collection of Arizona history
is at the Arizona State Department of
Library and Archives in Phoenix at 309
Capitol Building where microfilm fa-
cilities are obtainable. No research is
done by staff members. Other libraries
with considerable Arizona and southwest
history are in the Arizona State College
Library, the Flagstaff Public Library and
the Museum of Northern Arizona Library,
P. O. Box 402, all of Flagstaff, Arizona;
the Maricopa County Free Public Li-
brary 831 North First Ave., Phoenix; The
Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society Li-
brary, University Stadium, Tucson, and
the Genealogical Library, LDS Temple,
Mesa. Names of professional researchers
may be obtained from the latter if a
self-addressed, stamped envelope is en-
closed.

Among books of value to the research-
er are the following:

American Guide Series (1940) "Arizona,
a State Guide," gives bibliography on
works on Arizona. Bancroft, Hubert
Howe, "History of Arizona and New
Mexico," (San Francisco 1889). Farish,
Thomas E., "History of Arizona," 8 vols.,
(San Francisco 1915). McClintock, James
Harvey, "Arizona, Prehistoric, Aborigi-
nal, Pioneer, Modern," 3 vols., (Chicago
1916). Lockwood, Francis Cummins, 'Pi-
oneer Days in Arizona," (New York
1932).

A partial list of Arizona libraries.
Flagstaff, (Coconino), Public Library, 212

6 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

W. Aspen; Mesa, (Maricopa), Public Prescott, (Yavapai), Public Library;
Library; Phoenix, (Maricopa), County Tucson, (Pima), Carnegie Free Library,
Free Public Library, 831 N. 1st Ave.; 200 S. 6th Ave.

County Map oi Arizona

ARIZONA 7

Arizona County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Apache B4 1872 28 1880 Mohave St. Johns

Cochise F4 1881 31 Pima Bisbee

Coconino B3 1891 24 Yavapai Flagstaff

Gila D3 1881 24 Maricopa, Pinal Globe

Graham D4 1881 13 Apache, Pima Safford

Greenlee D4 1909 13 Graham Clifton

Maricopa D2 1871 332 1880 Yavapai, Yuma Phoenix

Mohave Bl 1864 9 1870-80 Original county Kingman

Navajo B4 1895 29 Apache Holbrook

Pima E3 1864 141 1870-80 Original county Tucson

Pinal D3 1875 43 1880 Pima Florence

Santa Cruz F3 1899 9 Pima Nogales

Yavapai C2 1864 25 1870 Original county Prescott

Yuma Dl 1864 28 1870 Original county Yuma

Additional U. S. Census Data: For the 1850 and the 1860 census figures of the
following, see New Mexico: Bernalillo, Rio Arriba, Santa Ana, Soccoro, and Valencia.

Arkansas

Capital, Little Rock

The Indians had free reign in Arkansas
until after the United States completed
negotiations with the French for the
Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Off and on
during the previous two hundred sixty
two years several French explorers had
come to the region with their parties in
search of whatever loot they could find.
They came today and were gone tomor-
row.

With the land in the ownership of the
United States it was immediately thrown
open for settlement at attractive low
prices. The new opportunities beckoned
thousands of earlier settlers of the mid-
east and south-east sections. The first
comers were mainly of English, Irish and
Scottish stock. Many moved into the
new section from nearby Kentucky and
Tennessee.

What is now Arkansas became part of
the Missouri Territory in 1812. When
Missouri applied for statehood in 1819
Congress created the Arkansas Territory
included in which was what is now Okla-
homa. On June 15, 1836 Arkansas be-
came the twenty-fifth state in the union.

When the Panic of 1837 dre^ned most
of the settlers in the older southern and
eastern states many of them set out for
the newly created state on the west to
make a new start in life. Thirty years
later the rich lands between the Arkansas

and the White Rivers attracted large
groups of South European emigrants.
Many came direct from Poland to estab-
lish themselves in Pulaski County. Ital-
ians were attracted to the northwest sec-
tion of the state where they engaged in
fruit raising.

In 1830 the population of Arkansas was
30,388; in 1850, 435,450; in 1900, 1,311,-
564, and in 1950 it had reached nearly
two million.

In 1836 Arkansas had the following
thirty counties: Washington, Carroll,
White, Lawrence, Greene, Crawford,
Johnson, Pope, Van Buren, Indepen-
dence, Jackson, Mississippi, Scott, Con-
way, Pulaski, St. Francis, Crittenden,
Hot Spring, Saline, Jefferson, Arkansas,
Phillips, Sevier, Pike, Clark, Hempstead,
Miller, Lafayette, Union, and Chicot.

In 1863 the following 55 counties exist-
ed in Arkansas: Benton, Madison, Car-
roll, Marion, Fulton, Lawrence, Randolph,
Greene, Washington, Newton, Searcy,
Izard, Independence, Jackson, Craighead,
Mississippi, Crawford, Franklin, John-
son, Pope, Van Buren, Conway, White,
Poinsett, Sebastian, Scott, Yell, Perry,
Pulaski, Prairie, St. Francis, Monroe,
Phillips, Crittenden, Polk, Montgomery,
Hot Spring, Saline, Jefferson, Arkansas,
Sevier, Pike Clark, Dallas, Bradley,
Drew, Desha, Sevier, Hempstead, Wash-

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ita, Calhoun, Lafayette, Columbia, Union,
and Chicot.

Since 1883 Arkansas has had its pres-
ent 75 counties.

Lawrence County, in the northeast
corner of the state, and Arkansas Coun-
ty, in the southeast corner, were settled
before most of the other counties in the
state.

Most of the foreign born population
came from Germany, Italy, Russia, and
England. Of the nearly two million popu-
lation in 1950, less than ten thousand
were of foreign birth.

The largest cities are Little Rock,
101,213; Fort Smith, 47,942; North
Little Rock, 44,097; Pine Bluff, 37,162;
Hot Springs, 29,307.

The Bureau of Vital Statistics, State
Health Department, State Health Bldg.,
Little Rock, Arkansas, has birth and
death records from 1914 and marriage
records from 1917. Clerks of counties
where license was obtained also have
marriage records. The County Clerks
also have records of wills, deeds, divorces,
and war service. Naturalization records
are on file in the District Courts at Lit-
tle Rock, Helena, Batesville, Fort Smith,
and Texarkana.

All Arkansas federal census since 1830
are available. The 1820 census was also
taken in the Arkansas Territory but the
schedules are missing.

A continuously expanding collection
of early Arkansas history and genealogy

is to be found in the Public Library,
700 Louisiana Street, Little Rock. Other
Arkansas collections are at the Carnegie
City Library. 318 North 13th Street,
Fort Smith; Arkansas Agricultural, Me-
chanical and Normal College Library,
Pine Bluff; Garland County Public Li-
brary, 200 Woodbine, Hot Springs; The
University of Arkansas Library, Fayette-
ville, and the Arkansas History Commis-
sion, Little Rock.

Among important books dealing with
Arkansas and her people are the fol-
lowing: Josiah Shinn's "Pioneers and
Makers of Arkansas," 1908 (recognized in
some circles as the most valuable his-
torical record of the state); David Y.
Thomas' "Arkansas and Its People," 4
vols, (last two biographical). New York,
1931; Arkansas Historical Association's
"Arkansas Historical Quarterly," Fayettt-
ville, 1942- ; W. F. Pope, "Early Days
in Arkansas," 1895; similar to this in
popular character, vast in bulk and loose
in method, are the "Biographical and
Pictorial Histories," covering the dif-
ferent sections of the state, (one volume
by J. Hallum in 1887, four others com-
piled anonymously. 1889-1891.)

A partial list of Arkansas libraries —
Fayetteville, (Washington), County Li-
brary, Court House; Hot Springs, (Gar-
land), County Public Library, 200 Wood-
bine; Little Rock, (Pulaski), Public Li-
brary, 700 Louisiana St.; Pine Bluff,
(Jefferson), County Public Library, 219
W. Fifth Ave.

Arkansas County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Arkansas C3 1813 24 1830-80 Original County De Witt

Ashley D3 1848 26 1850-80 Union, Drew Hamburg

Baxter A2 1873 12 1880 Fulton Mountain Homo

Benton Al 1836 38 1840-80 Washington Bentonville

Boone A2 1869 16 1880 Carrol, Marion Harrison

Bradley D3 1840 16 1850-80 Union Warren

Calhoun D2 1850 7 1860-80 Hampton

Carroll Al 1833 13 1840-80 Izard Berryville

Eureka Springs (1)

Chicot D3 1823 22 1830-80 Arkansas Lake Village

Clark C2 1818 23 1830-80 Arkansas Arkadelphia

Clay A4 1873 27 1880 Randolph Corning

Pigott (1)

Cleburne B3 1883 11 White, Van Buren Heber Springs

Cleveland C2 1873 9 1880 Dallas, Bradley Rison

Columbia D2 1852 29 1860-80 Lafayette Magnolia

Conway B2 1825 18 1830-80 Pulaski Morrilton

Craigheadi A4 1859 51 1860-80 Mississippi, Greene Poinsett ..- Jonesboro

and Lake City

ARKANSAS

Name

Map Date Pop.

Index Formed By M

Crawford Bl 1820 23
Crittenden B4 1825 47
Cross B4 1862 25

Dallas
Desha
Drew

C2
C3

1845
1838

B2
Bl
A3
C2
C2
A4

Faulkner

Franklin

Fulton

Garland

Grant

Greene

Hempstead Dl

Hot Spring C2

Howard CI

Independence A3

Izard A3

Jackson B3

Jefferson

Johnson

Lafayette

Lawrence

C3
B2

Dl
A3

Lee
Lincoln

C4
C3

Little River Dl
Logan Bl

Lonoke

Lovely

Madison

Marion

Miller

Al
A2
Dl

Mississippi A4

Monroe C3

Montgomery CI

Nevada D2

Newton

Ouachita

Perry

Phillips

Pike

Poinsett

Polk

Pope

Prairie

A2
D2
B2
C4
CI
B4
CI
B2
B3

Pulaski C3
Randolph A3
St. Francis2 B4

Saline
Scott
Searcy
Sebastian

Sevier

Bl
A2
Bl

1873
1837
1842
1873
1869
1833
1818
1829
1873
1820
1825
1829
1829
1833
1827
1817

1873
1871

1857
1871

1833
1829
1842
1871
1842
1842
1840
1820
1833
1838
1844
1829
1846

1827
1835
1833
1838
1851

12
25

D3 1846 18

25
12

9
47

9
29
25
22
13
23
10
26
76
16
13
21

24
17

12
20

82
20

7
15

9
33

6
46
10
39
14
23
14

1818 197
1835 16

24
10
10
64

Census

Reports

Available

1830-80

1870-80

1850-80

1840-80

1850-80

1880

1840-80

1850-80

1870-80

1840-80

1830-80

1880

1830-80

1840-80

1830-80

1880
1880

1870-80
1880

Parent County

County Seat

1873 27 1880
1827

1836 12

1835 9

1820 33

1840-80
1840-80
1880

1840-80

1830-80

1850-80

1880

1850-80

1830-80

1840-80

1850-80

1830-80

1850-80

1830-80
1840-80
1830-80
1840-80
1840-80
1840-80
1860-80

CI 1828 12 1830-80

Lovely Van Buren

Phillips Marion

Crittenden, Poinsett, St. Francis .. Wynne

Clark, Hot Springs Fordyce

Arkansas Arkansas City

Arkansas Monticello

Pulaski Conway

Crawford Charleston and Ozark

Izard Salem

Montgomery Hot Springs N. P.

Jefferson Sheridan

Lawrence Paragould

Arkansas Hope

Clark Malvern

Pike Nashville

Lawrence Batesville

Independence Melbourne

Independence Newport

Arkansas, Pulaski Pine Bluff

Pope Clarksville

Hempstead Lewisville

New Madrid Powhatan

Walnut Ridge (1)

Phillips, Monroe Marianna

Arkansas Star City

Vamer (1)

Hempstead Ashdown

Pope Booneville

Paris (1)

Pulaski, Jefferson Lonoke

Abolished 1828

Washington Huntsville

Izard Yellville

Abolished 1836,

Re-established 1874 Texarkana

Crittenden Blytheville and Osceola

Phillips, Arkansas Clarendon

Clark Mount Ida

Hempstead ._ Prescott

Johnson Jasper

Clark Camden

Pulaski Perryvillf;

Arkansas Helena

Carroll, Clark Murfreesboro

Greene, St. Francis Harrisburg

Montgomery Mena

Pulaski Russellville

Monroe Des Arc

De Vails Bluff (1)

Arkansas Little Rock

Lawrence Pocahontas

Phillips Forrest City

Pulaski Benton

Pulaski, Crawford, Pope Waldron

Marion Marshall

Crawford Fort Smith

Greenwood (1>
Hempstead De Queen

10 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Sharp A3 1868 9 1870-80 Izard Evening Shade

Hardy (1)
Stone A3 1873 8 1880 Izard, Independence Mountain View-
Union D2 1829 50 1830-80 Hempstead, Clark El Dorado

Van Buren B2 1833 10 1840-80 Independence Clinton

Washington Al 1828 50 1830-80 Miller, Lovely Fayetteville

White B3 1835 38 1840-80 Pulaski, Jackson, Independence .. Searcy

Woodruff B3 1862 19 1870-80 White Augusta

Cotton Plant (1)

Yell B2 1840 14 1850-80 Pope Danville

Dardanelle(l)

1. Three courthouse fires destroyed records up to 1886, when brick courthouse
was built. In 1883 Lake City district was formed in eastern part of county.

2. Records destroyed by fire in 1862.

County Map of Arkansas

California

Capital, Sacramento

Various expeditions from Mexico,
Spain, Russia and England visited Cali-
fornia from 1540 to 1792. Spain con-
trolled until 1822 when Mexico came
into possession and held power until
1848. It then ceded California to the
United States. The fever that struck
all sections of the United States and
every country of Europe with the find-
ing of gold at Sutter's Mill brought peo-
ple to California from all parts of the
world. The Gold Rush increased the pop-
ulation from 15,000 to 250,000. In 1957
the population was more than eleven
million. About one tenth of the popula-
tion is foreign born.

The foreign born residents of Calif-
ornia, listed in point of numbers, origi-
nated in the following countries: Mexi-
co, Canada, Italy, England & Wales,
Russia, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Scot-
land, Poland, Austria, France, Den-
mark, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal,
Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Nether-
lands, Spain, Finland, Czechoslovakia,
Rumania, Lithuania, and Belgium.

California came into the family of the
union on September 9, 1850 as the
thirty-first state. It was the sixth state
west of the Mississippi, the other five
being Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louis-
iana, and Texas.

In 1950 California ranked second in
the nation both in population and area.
The original twenty-six counties in 1850
had in 1957 been divided into fifty-eight.
The largest cities are Los Angeles with
more than two million population, San
Francisco with nearly one million. Oak-
land and San Diego, each with about
half a million, and Long Beach with
more than a quarter of a million.

Records of births and deaths since
1905 on record in office of the Bureau
of Records and Statistics. State De-
partment of Health, 631 J Street, Sac-
ramento, Calif. Many of the health of-
fices of the larger cities have similar
records prior to July 1, 1905, as have
also the recorders of the various coun-
ties, or the county clerks. The Depart-
ment of Health in San Francisco has
early death and cemetery records.

The Bureau of Records and Statistics,
address as above, and all County Clerks
have records of marriage licences is-
sued in the respective counties.

Divorce records are available in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court in the county in which the pro-
ceedings were conducted.

Naturalization records are kept in
the county offices of the Superior
Courts, and also in the United States
Circuit Courts in Los Angeles and San
Francisco.

Deeds for real estate and lands are
filed in the office of the County Recor-
der in the county in which the land
concerned is located.

A communication from the Chief of
the Bureau of Records and Statistics
and the Chief of the Vital Records Sec-
tion of the Department of Public
Health says, "In the case of a request
for a search for an unknown event,
we require a fee of $1.00 per hour of
search, paid in advance. An example
of this kind of a record search is when
a person was last known to be alive
on a given date, and we are asked
to search for a death record of the
person from that date foreward.

"There are certain items of informa-
tion which we require in order to make
a search of our records. These items
vary with the type of record sought
and the time period involved.

'As we now have over ten million
records on file, duplication of names
is common. It is therefore desirable
that secondary identifying data be
furnished."

The largest genealogical library on
the west coast is that of the Public
Library, 630 West Fifth Street, Los
Angeles 17. No research is done by
staff members. A departmental book-
let of value to all genealogical research-
ers has been issued by its genealogical
division and may be had for the asking.
The next largest genealogical collection
on the coast is found in the Sutro
Branch of the California State Library.
Other California libraries may borrow
books from the Sutro Branch for their
clients. Names of professional genealog-
ists may be obtained from the library
in question if inquiry is made in writing
and a self addressed, stamped envelope is
enclosed.

Other valuable genealogical collec-
tions are located in California Genea-
logical Society Library, 926-928 de
Young Bldg., San Francisco 4; Califor-
nia Historical Society Library, Pioneer
Hall, 456 McAllister St., San Francisco
2: Society of Mayflower Descendants
Library, 12 Geary St., San Francisco
8; Society of California Pioneers Lib-
rary, 456 McAllister St., San Francisco
2; Sons of the American Revolution

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Library, 926-928 de Young Bldg., 690
Market St., San Francisco 4; Swedish
American Hall Library, 2174 Market
St., San Francisco 14; Stocton and San
Joaquin County Library, Market and
Hunter Sts., Stockton 4; Public Library,
2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley 4; General
Library, University of California, Berke-
ley 4; Public Library, 425 E. Olive Ave.,
Burbank; County Library, 322 S. Broad-
way, Los Angeles 13; Library, Univer-
sity of California at Los Angeles, 405
Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles 24; Public
Library, 659 - 14th St., Oakland 12;
Public Library, Hamilton at Bryant,
Palo Alto; State Library, Sacramento

9; County Free Public Library, 364
Mt. View Ave., San Bernardino, Calif.
Books on California: H. H. Bancroft,
"History of California 1542-1890," 7
vols., San Francisco 1884-90; X. H.
Hittell, "History of California," 4 vols.,
San Francisco 1885-97; C. E. Chapman,
"A History of California," The Spanish
Period," New York, 1921; J. W. Caug-
hey, "California," New York 1940; R.
G. Cleland, "From Wilderness to Em-
pire," New York 1944; R. G. Cleland,
"California In Our Time," New York
1847; State of California, Secretary of
State, "California Blue Book," Sacra-
mento, irregularly.

California County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census

Reports

Available

Alameda

1853

740

1860-80

Alpine •

1864

1870-80

Amador

1854

1860-80

Butte

1850

1850-80

Calaveras

1850

1850-80

Colusa

1850

1850-80

Contra Costa Bl

1850

299

1860-80

Del Norte

1857

1860-80

El Dorado

1850

1850-80

Fresno

1856

277

1860-80

Glenn

1891

Humboldt

1853

1860-80

Imperial

1907

Inyo

1866

1870-80

Kern

1866

228

1870-80

Kings

1893

Lake

1861

1870-80

Lassen

1864

1870-80

Los Angeles

1850

4152

1850-80

Madera

1893

Marin

1850

1850-80

Mariposa

1850

1850r80

Mendocino

1850

1850-80

Merced

1855

1860-80

Modoc

1874

1880

Mono

1861

1870-80

Monterey

1850

131

1850-80

Napa

1850

1850-80

Nevada

1851

1860-80

Orange

1889

216

Placer

1851

1860-80

Plumas

1854

1860-80

Riverside

1893

170

Sacramento

1850

277

1850-80

San Benito

1874

1880

San

Bernardino

1853

282

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Cntra Costa & Santa Clara Oakland

Eldorado, Amador,

Calaveras Markleevillo

Calaveras Jackson

Original county Oroville

Original county San Andreas

Original county .,. Colusa

Original county Martinez

Klamath Crescent City

Original county Placerville

Merced, Mariposa Fresno

Colusa Willows

Trinity Eureka

San Diego El Centro

Tulare Independence

Tulare, Los Angeles Bakersfield

Tulare Hanford

Napa Lakeport

Plumas, Shasta Susanville

Original county Los Angeles

Fresno Madera

Original county San Rafael

Original county Mariposa

Original county Ukiah

Mariposa Merced

Siskiyou Alturas

Calaveras, Fresno Bridgeport

Original county Salinas

Original county Napa

Yuba Nevada City

Los Angeles .— Santa Ana

Yuba, Sutter Auburn

Butte Quincy

San Diego, San Bernardino .... Riverside

Original county Sacramento

Monterey Hollister

Los Angeles San Bernardino

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Date

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Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

San Diego

1850

557

1850-80

San

Francisco

1850

775

1860-80

San Joaquin B2

1850

201

1850-80

San

Luis Obispo

1850

1850-80

San Mateo

1856

236

1860-80

Santa

Barbara

1850

1850-80

Santa Clara

1850

291

1860-80

Santa Cruz

1850

1850-80

Shasta

1850

1850-80

Sierra

1852

1860-80

Siskiyou

1852

1860-80

Solano

1850

105

1850-80

Sonoma

1850

103

1850-80

Stginislaus

1854

127

1860-80

Sutter

1850

1850-80

Tehama

1856

1860-80

Trinity

1850

1860-80

Tulare

1852

149

1860-80

Tuolumne

1850

1850-80

Ventura

1872

115

1880

Yolo

1850

1850-80

Yuba

1850

1850-80

Parent County County Seat

Original county San Diego

Original county San Francisco

Original county Stockton

Original county San Luis Obispo

San Francisco Redwood City

Original county Santa Barbara

Original county San Jose

Original county Santa Cruz

Original county Redding

Yuba Downieville

Shasta, Klamath Yreka

Original county Fairfield

Original county Santa Rosa

Tuolumne Modesto

Original county Yuba City

Colusa, Butte, Shasta Red Bluff

Original county Weaverville

Mariposa Visalia

Original county Sonora

Santa Barbara Ventura

(San Buenaventura)

Original county Woodland

Original county Marysville

Colorado

Capital, Denver

Dr. LeRoy R. Hafen, for many years
executive director of the State Histori-
cal Society of Colorado and the author
of several works on Colorado, says,
"Colorado was named for the great
river that raises in the snowbanks of
her western slope. The musical Spanish
word meaning 'red' was bestowed Oii
the river by Spanish explorers a cen-
tury before it was applied to Colorado
7"erritory."

Early Spanish explorers who came
to Mexico heard the natives tell ex-
citing tales of cities of gold and silver
to the northward. To find the precious
metals many of these fortune hunt-
ers pressed northward, some of them
coming into sections of the present New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
Some of these adventurers were the
first white men to see the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado, the Rio Grande Valley,
and other sections of the Rocky Moun-
tain territory. Escalante, the Catholic
priest who tried to find a short cut from
Santa Fe to the Pacific Coast, came
through there on his unsuccessful trip
in the summer of 1776.

About fifty years later these sections
swarmed with competing trappers and
fur traders working for the various
large fur companies of eastern United
States and Canada.

The real settlers of Colorado didn't
come until 1858, thus making the state
the last to be occupied by permanent
settlers. Many of the first-comers were
attracted there by the discovery of gold
and other metals. Not too successful
in their fortune hunt, they turned to
the land and the ranges for their live-
liliood.

The 1860 Census showed a population
of about 33,000 men, and 1,500 women.
The very next year saw a decrease in
the male population and a considerable
increase of women. A state census in
1861 reported the presence of about
21,000 men, and 4,500 women. Since then
each national census has seen a tre-
mendous increase. In 1870 there was a
population of 39,864; in 1880 a five-fold
increase, 194,327; in 1890 that was al-
most tripled, 413,249, and in 1950 that
was more than tripled, 1,325,089.

The population has been divided a-

COLORADO

bout equally between urban and rural,
with a slight edge for the city. The
foreign-born population of about seven-
ty thousand have come first of all from
the Spanish-Americas, and then from
the following countries in the order
mentioned: Russia, Italy, Germany,
Sweden, England, Austria, Ireland, Den-
mark, Greece, and Czechoslovakia.

Settled in 1858 Colorado became a
Territory February 28, 1861, and was
admitted to statehood August 1, 1876.
It was called the Centennial State be-
cause it became part of the union 100
years after the formation of the United
Slates.

The first territorial assembly created
the first 17 counties in September 1861.
They were Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear-
Creek, Costilla, Douglas, El Paso, Fre-
mont, Gilpin, Guadalupe (later named
Conejos), Huerfano, Jefferson, Lake,
Larimer, Park, Pueblo, Summit and
Weld. It was almost twenty years later
or in 1880, that the legislature estab-
lished twenty-four more counties, mak-
ing a total at that time of forty-one.
In the intervening years twenty-six
other counties have been formed by the
division of the earlier counties, Colorado
now has 63 counties.

Birth records before January 1907
may be obtained from the respective
county clerks, after January 1907 from
the State Bureau of Vital Statistics,
Denver, Colorado.

Death records before January 1900
n)ay be obtained at the offices of the
county clerks, after January 1900 at
the Bureau of Vital Statistics.

Marriage records are kept by the
county clerks. Marriages were not re-
corded until after 1881.

Probate matters and wills are on
file in the office of the county clerk.

All land titles, deeds, mortages,
leases, etc. are kept by the county re-
corder.

An efficient and congenial staff of
librarians is ready to assist all research-
ers in the rapidly growing genealogi-
cal section of the Public Library, Civic
Center, Denver 2. Rocky Mountain re-
gion history and lore is available at
the University of Colorado Library,
Boulder; Public Library, 21 W. Kiowa
St., Colorado Springs; McClelland Pu-
blic Library, 100 Abriendo Ave., Pueb-
lo. Information regarding profession-
al researchers may be obtained by send-
ing self-addressed envelopes to libraries.

Colorado County Histories

Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Adams

1861

1880

Alamosa

Arapahoe

1861

1870

Archuleta

1885

Baca

1889

Bent

1874

Boulder

1859

1870

Chaffee

1879

Cheyenne

1889

Clear Creek

1859

1870

Conejos

1861

1880

Costilla

1859

1870

Crowley

Custer

1877

Delta

1883

Denver

416

1880

Dolores

1881

Douglas

1859

1870

Eagle

1883

Elbert

1874

El Paso

1859

1880

Fremont

1859

1870

Parent County County Seat

Original county Brighton

Costilla Alamosa

Original county Littleton

Conejos Pagosa Springs

Las Animas Springfield

Greenwood Las Animas

Original county Boulder

Lake Salida

Buena Vista

Bent, Elbert Cheyenne Wells

Original county Georgetown

Original county Conejos

Original county San Luis

Bent Ordway

Fremont Westcliffe

Silver Creek

Gunnison Delta

Adams Denver

Ouray Dove Creek

Original county C£istle Rock

Summit Eagle

Red Cliff

Douglas, Greenwood Kiowa

Original county Colorado Springs

Original county Canon City

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Garfield E2 1883 12 Summit Glenwood Springs

Gilpin C2 1861 9 Original county Central City

Grand D2 1874 4 Summit Hot Sulphur Spr.

Gunnison E3 1874 6 Lake Gunnison

Hinsdale E4 1874 3 Conejos Lake City

Huerfano C4 1861 11 1870-80 Original county Walsenburg

Jackson Dl 1891 2 Grand Walden

Jefferson C2 1861 56 1870-80 Original county Golden

Kiowa A3 1889 3 Cheyenne, Bent Eads

Kit Carson A2 1889 9 Elbert Burlington

Lake D2 1861 6 1870-80 Original county Leadville

La Plata E4 1874 15 1880 Conejos, Lake Durango

Larimer CI 1861 44 1870-80 Original county Fort Collins

Las Animas B4 1866 26 1880 Huerfano Trinidad

Lincoln B3 1889 6 Elbert Hugo

Logan Bl 1887 17 Weld Sterling

Mesa F3 1883 39 Gunnison Grand Junction

Mineral E4 1893 7 Hinsdale Creede

Moffatt El 1909 6 Routt Craig

Maybelle

Montezuma F4 1889 10 La Plata Cortez

Montrose F3 1883 15 Gnnrcison Montrose

Morgan Bl 1889 18 Weld Fort Morgan

Otero B4 1889 25 Bent La Junta

Ouray E3 1877 2 Hinsdale Ouray

Park D2 1861 2 1870-80 Original county Fairplay

Phillips Al 1889 5 Logan Holyoke

Pitkin D2 1881 2 Gunnison Aspen

Prowers A4 1889 15 Bent Lamar

Pueblo C3 1861 90 1880 Original county Pueblo

Rio Blanco E2 1874 5 1880 Summit Meeker

Rio Grande D4 13 Conejos Del Norte

Routt El 1877 9 1880 Grand Steamboat Springs

Saguache D3 1870 6 Costilla Saguache

San Juan E4 1876 1 La Plata Silverton

San Miguel F3 1883 3 Ouray Telluride

Sedgwick Al 1889 5 Logan Julesburg

Summit D2 1861 1 1870-80 Original county Breckenridge

Teller C3 1891 3 Fremont Cripple Creek

Washington B2 1889 3 Logan Akron

Weld Bl 1861 68 1870-80 Original county Greeley

Yuma A2 1889 11 Washington Wray

* For Arapahoe 1860 U. S. Census figures see Kansas 1860.

Connecticut

Capital, Hartford

The settlement of Connecticut began in
1635 by former Massachusetts colonists.
Some of them left Massachusetts on order
of narrow religious leaders, and others
because they had become weary of the
intolerant attitude displayed by those
leaders. The green Connecticut valley
had beckoned them with abundant evi-
dences of opportunities for material pros-
perity. Most of the settlers in the Mass-
achusetts towns of Newtown, Watertown
and Dorchester, all near Boston, moved

their families and all of their belongings
to the central part of Connecticut, where
along the Connecticut River they estab-
lished three new communities which later
came to be called Windsor, Hartford and
Wethersfield. It was an attack on these
three communities that later caused the
Pequod Indian War.

As early as 1614 a Dutch seafarer,
Adriaen Block, sailed up the broad
river, which he named the Varsche Riv-
er. The first knowledge of the fertile

18 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

section of Connecticut the early settlers colonies, Connecticut had more home in-

of Massachusetts learned from the Indi- dustries than any other colony. All kinds

ans who gave them a highly painted word of household gadgets were invented and

picture of the section. It was this that manufactured in the homes. These early

brought about the settlement of the three necessities were carried all over the

communities mentioned in the para- eastern section of the present United

graph. Late in 1635 about fifty persons States, even down to New Orleans, by

left what is now Cambridge, then called the so called "Yankee Pedlars". With

Newtown, and established themselves the heavy migration in the latter part

at Suckiaug, now Hartford. New mi- of the eighteenth century away from the

grations continued throughout the next state, Connecticut sent lavish invitations

few years. While the Dutch remained at to Europe for more families to settle

the trading posts or forts, the English there.

spread all over the territory. Most of About that time a severe potato crop

these settlers were strong willed, opiniat- failure in Ireland brought four million

ed Englishmen, always suspicious of the people to the verge of starvation. It

motives of the leaders of the various didn't take many inducements for them

groups. Speaking of the kind of govern- to accept suggestions or invitations to

ment established in some of these early make their home in Connecticut. Thous-

settlements, one historian has said, "... ands of them came in the late 1840's al-

the legislative body continued to dom- though many had come for ten years pre-

inate the executive and the judicial. It viously. It is estimated that more than

is worthy of note that the preamble 70,000 Irish came during that period

presumed a close relation between who with their descendants now number

Church and State, and that in 1659 the more than 200,000.

general court imposed a property quali- Since 1880 it is estimated that more

fication for suffrage. There was a dis- than 80,000 Germans have sought resi-

tinct aristocratic element in this de- dence in various sections of the state,

mocracy." Unlike many other nationalities the

From 1635 to 1644 another English Germans seldom live in solid nationali-

colony flourished at Saybrook, near the ty groups but are more intermingled with

mouth of the Connecticut, but then fad- the already existing population,

ed away. In 1643, New Haven was ex- Canada has always contributed freely

tended as a colony to include Milford to the population of Connecticut. The

(1639), Guilford (1639), and Stamford English-Canadians have generally come

(1641). to Hartford or some of the other larger

During the ten year period from 1640 cities in the state, while the French-

to 1650, there was a heavy influx of Canadians have been satisfied to cross

settlers into Connecticut. The new set- over the border separating them from

tiers came almost entirely direct from the United States and settle down in

England. The following forty years saw some of the north-eastern industrial

a tremendous migration away from the cities where upwards of seventy thous-

newly settled district. The movement was and of them have been employed in the

generally westward where fertile fields textile industry.

beckoned those anxious to secure their During the past eighty years a heavy
independence. In many instances the en- influx of Scandinavians has been register-
tire population of some of the towns par- ed in Connecticut. The earlier migration
ticipated in the migration and established was much heavier than the later. It
themselves again among their old neigh- is estimated that upwards of fifty-five
bors in a new environment. thousand persons have come from those

The 1790 Census of Connecticut shows nations to the Nutmeg State, about eight

a population of 232,236. All of them with per cent from Norway, eleven per cent

the exception of three and eight-tenths from Denmark, and eighty-one per cent

per cent, or 223,437 had come from Eng- from Sweden. The majority of them

land proper. Scotland was represented have engaged in the mechanical arts,

with two and eight-tenths per cent, or while some have engaged in gardening

6,425; Ireland with seven-tenths per cent, and farming,

or 1,589; France, two-tenths per cent, or The Italians have been coming to
512; Holland, one-tenth per cent, or Connecticut in quite a solid stream over
258. There were also five Hebrew, four the past eighty years. The greatest in-
German, and six from other countries. flux was during the first sixteen years

During the early days of the American of the twentieth century. The first and

CONNECTICUT 19

second generation of Italians number ap- of estates are in the probate districts,

proximately more than 300,000 in Con- These are not always identical with the

necticut today. While good-sized colo- town.

nies of them live in many of the cities, The Church records are still in the

most of them are centered around Hart- respective churches. If information is

ford. desired from them, it may be best to

With about an equal distribution in write the town clerk and ask him to

agricultural and industrial pursuits there help you decide where to seek the data

are about 150,000 former residents of desired.

Poland in Connecticut. They have con- The census records of the state are
centrated especially around Bridgeport all complete. The 1790 census is print-
and New Britain. The factories and in- ed in book form and can be found in
dustrial plants of Waterbury have em- most libraries. The later census records
ployed most of the 40,000 Lithuanians are in the National Archives in Wash-
who have come here over the years, ington, D. C. and are available for re-
while about an equal number from search. In doing research in the Ar-
Czechoslovakia have centered around the chives, it is to your advantage to em-
Bridgeport plants. About 30,000 Mag- ploy a professional researcher. Write
yars (Hungarians) are also established to the National Archives, Washington,
in the state, about nine thousand foreign D. C. state your problem and ask for
born living there in 1950. suggestions how to proceed.

Hartford and New Haven have a larg- Some Connecticut towns had a cen-
er proportion of Jews than any other sus taken in 1776. Information con-
cities in America with the exception of cerning this may be obtained from the
New York and Atlantic City. In round Connecticut State Library, Hartford,
numbers the state has a Jewish popula- Conn,
tion of about one hundred thousand. Bureau of Vital Statistics, State De-

The 1950 census shows that Connecti- partment of Health, State Office Bldg.,

cut has also nine thousand each of Hartford 15, Conn., has birth, death and

Austrians and Ukranians, eight thous- marriage records since July 1, 1897.

and Scots, four thousand Greeks, twenty- Earlier similar recards are on file in

five hundred Finns, and a large number the city or town offices of the respective

of Armenians. It is estimated that about communities.

four times these numbers reprjesent Information on divorces may be ob-

the first two generations of these na- tained for a fee in the office of the

tionalities in the state. Connecticut was clerk of the Superior Court in the county

the ninth colony to be settled. It was where the proceedings were heard,

the fifth state to enter the union, Janu- Naturalization records are on file in

ary 5, 1788. the office of the United States Circuit

Connecticut in 1950 had a population court in Hartford, or in the county of-
of 2,007,280. The density of the pop- fices of the Superior Courts,
ulation is the fourth in the nation, 400.7 The Lutheran and the Episcopal
persons per square mile, as compared churches have available besides the vital
to 28.8 persons per square mile in Tex- statistics, the christening, baptism, con-
as or 8.8 persons per square mile in North firmation, entrance and departure dates
Dakota. More than three-fourths of its and burials.

population live in its cities, and less The town clerks also have custody of

than one fourth in the rural districts, the land records.

Its largest cities are Hartford, 177,397 The district courts of the counties are

inhabitants; New Haven, 164,443; Bridge- the custodians of wills, inventories and

port, 158,709; Waterbury, 104,477; Stam- administrations of estates; Sometimes a

ford, 74,293; and New Britain, 73,725. town constitutes a district. Sometimes

Three of its eight counties have a pop- several smaller towns are grouped into

ulation of more than half a million each, one probate district. There are 118 dis-

Unlike most states the town clerk, tricts and 169 towns,
rather than the county clerk, is the Almost every city or town in the state
custodian of marriage licenses and re- have printed histories containing a great
cords, marriage and death records, and deal of genealogy especially concerning
land records. Long before the counties the early inhabitants. Many family gene-
were organized, the town clerks were alogies have also been printed,
recording these statistics. Record of A wealth of information on early day
wills, inventories and administrations families of Connecticut may be found

20 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

in almost every library. Many books Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks,
have been published, giving the names Litchfield: Barkhamsted, Bethlehem,
of the participants in all of the Ameri- Bridgewater, Canaan, Colebrook, Corn-
can wars. Numerous family histories wall, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Litch-
have been printed and are available at field, Morris, New Hartford, New Mil-
most of the libraries, and most of the ford, Norfolk, North Canaan, Plymouth,
towns and cities have valuable histories Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Thomaston,
of their founding, growth and progress. Torrington, Warren, Washington, Water-
Many of the family histories in the li- town, Winchester, Woodbury,
braries are in manuscript form. Many of Middlesex: Chester, Clinton, Crom-
them have been indexed to facilitate re- well. Deep River, Durham, East Had-
search activities. Information regard- dam. East Hampton, Essex, Haddam,
ing these indexes may be obtained from Killingworth, Middlefield, Middletown,
the libraries if self-addressed, stamped Old Saybrook, Portland, Westbrook.
envelopes accompany the request. No New Haven: Beacon Falls, Bethany,
research is done by library staff mem- Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven,
bers, but information regarding pro- Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden,
fessional researchers may be given by Middlebury, Milford, Naugatuck, New
the libraries. Haven, North Branford, North Haven

Town and vital records and genealo- Orange. Oxford, Prospect, Seymour,
gical information pertaining to the early Southbury. Wallingford, Waterbury,
days of the state may be obtained from West Haven, Woodbridge, Woolcot.
the Public Library, 925 Broad St., Bridge- New London: Bozrah, Colchester, East
port 4; Public Library, 215 Greenwich Lynne, Franklin, Griswold, Groton.
Ave., Gi-eenwich; Connecticut Historical Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Mont-
Society, 1 Elizabeth St., Hartford 5; ville. North Stonington, Norwich, Old
State Library, Capitol Ave., Hartford 1; Lyme, Preston, Salem, Sprague, Stoning-
Public Library, 624 Main St., Hartford 3; ton, Waterford.

Curtis Memorial Public Library, 175 E. Tolland: Andiver, Bolton, Columbia,

Main St., Meriden; Free Public Library, Coventry, Ellington, Hebron, Mansfield,

133 Elm St., New Haven 11; Yale Uni- Somers, Stafford Tolland, Union, Willing-

versity Library, 120 High St., New Hav- ton.

en; The Public Library, New London; Windham: Ashford, Brooklyn, Canter-
Otis Public Library, Norwich; Ferguson bury, Chaplin, Hampton, Eastford, Kil-
Public Library, Broad and Bedford Sts., lingly. Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam,
Stamford; Wilbur L. Cross Library, Uni- Scotland, Sterling, Thompson, Windham,
versity of Connecticut, Storrs; Silas Bron- Woodstock.

son Public Library, 267 Grand St., Water- Connecticut Towns organized before

bury 2. 1800:

Among books about Connecticut and Fairfield County — Brookfield 1788;
its people are the following: John Warner Danbury 1684; Fairfield 1639; Green-
Barber, "Historical Collections," 1836; wich 1640; Huntington 1788; New Fair-
Edgar L. Heermance, "Connecticut field 1740; Newton 1700; Norwalk 1649;
Guide;" Samuel Peters, "General His- Redding 1757; Ridgefield 1709; Stam-
tory of Connecticut," 1781. ford 1648; Stratford 1639; Trumbull

The various counties of Connecticut 1798; Weston 1717.
are at present divided into the following Hartford County — Berlin 1785;
townships: Fairfield: Bethel, [Bridgeport, Bristol 1747; Canton 1740; East Wind-
Brookfield, Darien, Danbury, Easton, sor 1680; Enfield 1681; Farmington,
Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New 1640; Glastonbury 1690; Grandby 1786;
Canaan, New Fairfield, Newtown, Nor- Hartford 1635; Hartland 1753; Sims-
walk, Redding, Ridgfield, Sheldon, Sher- bury 1670; Southington 1779; Suf field
man Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, 1674; Wethersfield 1635; Windsor 1633.
Weston, Westport, Wilton. Litchfield County — Barkhamsted

Hartford: Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, 1746; Bethlehem 1787; Canaan 1739:
Bristol, Burlington, Canton, East Gran- Colebrook 1779; Cornwall 1740; Goshen
by. East Hartford, East Windsor, Enfield, 1739; Harwinton 1731; Kent 1739; Litch-
Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hart- field, 1719; New Hartford, 1739; New
ford, Hartland, Manchester, Marlbor- Milford, 1712; Norfolk, 1744; Plymouth
ough. New Britain, Newington, Plain- 1795; Roxbury, 1796; Salisbury, 17:30;
ville, Rock Hill, Simsbury, Southington, Sharon, 1732-3; Torrington, 1740; Wash-
South Windsor, Suf field. West Hartford, ington, 1779; Warren, 1786; Watertown,

CONNECTICUT

1780; Winchester, 1771; Woodbury, Cheshire, 1723; Derby, S. 1675; Guil-

1674. ford, 1639; Hamden, 1786; Meriden,

Middlesex County — Chatham, 1767; 1796; Millford, 1639; New Haven, 1638;

Durham, 1698; E. Haddam, 1685; Had- North Haven, 1786; Oxford, 1798; Sey-

dem, 1662; Killingsworth, 1667; Middle- mour, 1672; Southbury, 1672; Wallings-

town, 1653; Saybrook, 1635. ford, 1669; Waterbury, 1686; Walcott,

New Haven County — Branford 1644; 1796; Woodbridge, 1786.

County Map of Connecticut

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

New London County — Bozrah, 1786;
Colchester, 1703; Franklin, 1786; Gro-
ton, 1705; Lebanon, 1700; Lisbon, 1786;
Lyme, 1664; Montville, 1786; New Lon-
don, 1646; Norwich, 1660; Preston, 1687;
Stonington, 1649.

Tolland County — Bolton, 1716; Cov-
entry, 1709; Ellington, 1786; Hebron,

1704; Mansfield, 1713; Somers, 1734;
Stafford, 1718; Tolland, 1700; Union,
1727; Vernon ,1716; Willington, 1720.

Windham County — Ashford, 1710;
Brooklyn, 1786; Canterbury, 1690;
Hampton, 1786; Killingly, 1700; Plain-
field, 1699; Pomfret, 1686; Sterling,
1794; Thompson, 1715; Voluntown, 1696;
Windham, 1689; Woodstock, 1749.

Connecticut County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Fairfield F4 1666 504 1790-80

Hartford D2 1666 540 1790-80

Litchfield E2 1751 99 1790-80

Middlesex C3 1785 67 1790-dO

New Haven E3
New London B3
Tolland B2

Windham A2

1666 546 1790-80

1666 145 1790-80

1786 45 1790-80

1726 62 1790-80

Parent County County Seat

Original county Bridgeport

Original county Hartford

Hartford, Fairfield Litchfield

Hartford, New London,

New Haven Middletown

Original county New Haven

Original county .... New London & Norwich

Windham Tolland

Hartford, New London Putnam

Willi mantic

Delaware

Capital, Dover

Delaware is next to the smallest of
the states in area. Although it is al-
most twice as large as Rhode Island,
it has less than half as large a popu-
lation.

It is a narrow, elongated state east of
Maryland and west of the Delaware
River, the Delaware Bay and the At-
lantic Ocean. It is about 93 miles long,
33 miles wide at the southern end, about
19 miles at the middle of the state, and
about eight miles wide at the northern
end. Dover, its capitol, is about equidis-
tant from the northern and the south-
ern borders of the state.

In its colonial days the Hudson River
was referred to by the colonists as "the
north river" and the Delaware as "the
south river".

Late in August 1609, Henry Hudson
a British seacaptain and adventurer m
the service of the Dutch West Indi'i
Company, visited the Delaware sectloi,
en route to the Hudson River in search
of a northwest passage.

During a six-year period between
1614 and 1620 a group of sailors under
the captaincy of Cornelius Hendrickseri,
a Dutch navigator, visited the section.
As ^i result of information brought
back to Holland by these sailors the
Dutch West India Campany was organi-

zed in 1621. In 1629 this company adop-
tee a charter to grant land in the new
vrorld to feudal lords. The following
year the company bought land adjoining
the Delaware River, and in 1631 David
Pietersen de Vries established a camp
on Lewes Beach.

Hearing how other European mon-
archs fostered expediti^^ns and settle-
ments in the new world, the Swedisli
r-.ilers encouraged the New Sweden
Company in outfitting an expedition
of two boats, "The Kalmar Nyckel '
and "Grip". They arrived at James-
town, Va., in March 1638, remained
there ten days and then continued to
Delaware. They established settlements
in the rich section south of the present
Wilmington, in the extreme north of
the colony. They were attacked by the
Dutch at different times from 1651 to
1655 when the Swedes were routed from
Fort Christina, named after the then
twenty-one year old Queen Kristina,
daughter of Gustaf Adolf, who lost his
life on the battlefield at Lutzen, Gei-
niony, in 1632.

The first Finnish colonists came to
Delaware in 1656 aboard a Swedish
ship.

The British forces took possession of
^he Delaware Colony and Amsterdam

DELAWARE 23

(New York) in 1664. Two years later archives of the state of New York.

a large influx of English people from After 16S1 they were stored in the Ar-

Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Nevv^ chives of Pennsylvania. As the counties

York, and Europe made their homes exercised full powers as government,

among the Swedes and the Dutch in not all of the colonial records went to

Delaware. From then on conditions a- Pennsylvania. Some are to be found

rnong the colonists greatly improved in the Delaware Archives in Dover,

and more unity was established. I^and records after 1785 will be found

Most of the colonists came to the in the county courthouses and wills also

New World for religious as well as after 1800.

material or financial purposes. Churches In the Bureau of Vital Statistics,
were among the first buildings erected State House, Dover, will be found a
as each new community was establish- record of births, deaths and marriages
ed. The Swedes brought with them since 1881. There are some marriages
i-eligious desires of their groups. The recorded as early as 1847. A record of
Dutch settlers had in their companies births was kept from 1861 to 1863.
priests of the Reformed church who The State Archivist said in June,
functioned in chapels erected by their 1952, *'A11 extant public records of Dela-
fJocks. Many Irish who came after 1698 ware and its political subdivisions dated
ior the right of worshiping in accord- before 1873, other than deeds and mort-
ance with the Presbyterian faith gave gages, are in the custody of The Pub-
an early impetus to that body. As early lie Archives Commission. Original vit-
as 1730 many staunch Roman Cathol- al statistics entries to 1913 are also in
ics established themselves in the north- our custody. It is not possible to list a
ern part of Delaware, where the first specific fee for service on these records,
Catholic chapel was built in 1772 on the since most requests are for photostatic
Lancaster Pike, going northeast from or microfilm copies. Our scale of prices
V/ilmington to Philadelphia. Another for these is based on the size and num-
influx of Catholics came in 1790 when ber of pages to be copied, and is in
several French families sought line with commercial rates in the area,
rescue here from the West Indies up- "Vital statistics since 1913 are in
risings. Among them were some who the custody of the Bureau of Vital Sta-
since then have played important parts tiotics, Dover, Delaware,
in the financial development of the "Deeds and mortgages are in the cus-
United States. tody of the respective Recorders of

Many setllers who first arrived in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties

the northern part of Delaware spread in courthouses in Wilmington, Dover,

from there into Pennsylvania, Mary- and Georgetown, Delaware. All service

land and New Jersey. on such records is through those of-

When Delaware ratified the Consti- tices.
tution of the United States on Decem- "The Historical Society of Delaware
ber 7, 1787, it became the first state has a small file of birth, death and mar-
in the Union. rjage records culled from newspaper

During the Civil War, although a files which does not in all instances

slave state, Delaware was on the side duplicate our own.

of the regular government. "Before 1790 all extant marriage re-

Becase of the slow transportation cords are from unofficial sources. So

methods in the early days, the state's also are birth and death records before

three counties were divided into dis- the Civil War period. Before 1913 cov-

tvicts, called hundreds. The hundreds erage was not complete in all categories

correspond to a township. for each year."

The 1950 census gave Delaware a All Delaware Census records are

population of 318,085, which ranks 46th available with the exception of the

in the nation. The largest cities are entire 1790 Census which is missing.

Wilmington, 110,356; Newark. 6,731; Books on Delaware:

Dover, 6,223; New Castle, 5,396; ELs- Israel Acrelius, Swedish Luthera'i

mere, 5,314, and Milford, 5,179. About minister, wrote history of New Sweden

62 per cent of the people live in the about 1714-1791.

cities, and 38 per cent in the rural Finck, "Lutheran Landmarks and

areas. Among the foreign born the Pioneers in America."

Italians, Poles, Russians, Irish, Ger- Benjamin Farris, "A History of the

mans and English predominate in thai Original Settlements on the Delaware."

order. &c," Wilson and Heald, Wilmington,

The early colonial records of Dela- 1846, 31? p.

ware are scattered. Some are in the J. M. Runk & Co., "Biographical and

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Genealogical History of the State of
Delaware" ChambersWurg, Pa., 1899,
2 vols.

Amandus Johnson, "The Swedish
Settlements on the Delaware, Their
History and Relations to the Indians,
Dutch and English, 1638-1664," N. Y.,
U. of Pa. Press per D. Appleton & Co.,

Agents, 1911, 2 vols.

Chi*istopher Ward (Longstreth),
"Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware
1609-1664," Philadelphia, University of
Pa. Press, 1930, 393 p.

See, "Delaware, The American Guide
Series," 1938, pp. 537, 538 for histories
of Delaware cities, towns and villages.

Delaware County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Kent Bl 1682 38 1800-80 St. Jones, Name ch. in 1682 Dover

New Castle B2 1673 219 1800-80 Original county Wilmington

Sussex B3 1682 61 1800-80 Early 17th Century

Horrekill District Georgetown

See Maryland for Map

District of Columbia

(Washington, D. C.)

The capital of the United States cov-
ers about seventy square miles on the
northeast side of the Potomac River,
about 38 miles southwest of Baltimore.
In the ten year period from 1940 to
1950 the population increased 139,087
from 663,091 to 802,178.

The Bureau of Vital Statistics, Health
Department, D. C, 300, Indiana Ave,,
N. W., Washington, D. C, is the cus-
todian of births from 1871 to the pre-
sent, and deaths from 1855 to the pre-
sent, except 1861 and 1862. Custodian
of marriages is the Clerk, U. S. Dis-
trict Court for the District of Columbia,
Fourth and E Streets, N. W., Washing-
ton, D. C. Custodian of wills is the
Register of Wills, Fifth and E Streets,
N. W. In charge of all real estate re-
cords and land titles is the Recorder
of Deeds, Sixth and D. Streets, N. W.,
Census records may be obtained from
the U. S. Bureau of the Census, Wash-
ington 25, D. C. Taxpayer lists are at

the office of the Tax Collector, District
of Columbia, District Bldg., Washing-
ton, D. C. All cemetery records are
kept at the individual cemeteries.

"In 1800," says a historian, "Washing-
ton, the new capital, had been recently
occupied. It was hardly a village, ex-
cept on paper, and contained only the
Capitol, the White House, two depart-
mental buildings, and a few boarding
houses. The public buildings were still
uncompleted. Mrs. Adams (the wife of
President John Adams) found the aud-
ience room of the White House conven-
ient for drying clothes, and the repre-
sentatives met in a temporary building
erected in the middle of the unfinished
Capitol."

Public buildings in the city were
burned by the British during the War
of 1812.

The first U. S. census of the District
of Columbia was taken in 1800. All of
the 1810 census records of the district
are missing.

Florida

Capital, Tallahassee

Maps existing in Spain for nearly intrepid Spanish explorer, reached the

five centuries indicate that the contours Florida coast as early as 1513. Landing

of the American continent were already there on Easter Sunday, he called the

then known there. Ponce de Leon, the new land Florida, from the Spanish

FLORIDA 25

name for Easter, Pascua Florida. At- The first railroad in the state was

tempts to locate Spanish settlers in the built in 1831 and extended from Talla-

new region a few years later failed hassee to St. Marks. The middle section

when the colony was routed by the In- of Florida was settled about 1820 by

dians. former settlers from Virginia, North

Efforts by the French Huguenots to Carolina, and South Carolina. Most of

establish colonies on the south bank of the people who came to East Florida from

the St John's river in 1564 had an en- 1845 to 1860 had lived in Georgia, Ala-

couraging beginning but ended in dis- bama, and North and South Carolina,

aster in a couple of years. Florida became a territory of the

In the 1763 peace treaty of Paris, United States on March 30, 1822, from

which ended the Seven Years' War, in which time her county records begin,

which the British and the Prussians She became a state on March 3, 1845,

fought France, Spain and Austria, all the twenty-seventh state to join the union,

her North American possessions east of During the eighteen-forties the popu-

the Mississippi were ceded by France lotion of Florida increased about fifty-

to Britain. In the same treaty Spain six per cent. The census of 1860 shows

traded Florida to Britain for Havana, the white population to have increased

That same year a proclamation by to seventy-eight thousand. At that time

the King of England established among there were in the state seventy-seven

other American provinces. East and plantations embracing more than one

West Florida. The two sections were thousand acres each. The 1860 census

divided by the Chattahoochee and the also showed that about half the popula-

Appalachicola rivers. tion was native born while twenty-two

Twenty years later, the Florida sec- P^i' cent had come from Georgia, elev-

tions were returned to Spain in the en per cent from South Carolina and five

treaty ending the Revolutionary War Per cent from North Carolina,

in 1783. In 1930 of the nearly one and a half

West Florida was taken by the United million population most of them had

States in 1810 and 1812, and, after come from the northeastern and the

many efforts, finally suceeded in 1819 southeastern states, with about 220,000

in getting Florida by promising to pay from Georgia, 75,000 from Alabama, and

indemnities to her citizens who had 50,000 from South Carolina,

been damaged by Spain. The section em- In 1912 a large group of Lutheran

bracing West Florida was added to Slovaks moved from Cleveland, Ohio,

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. onto a large tract of land they had pur-

In 1821 about eight thousand whites chased in Seminole county where they
lived in Florida, most of them Spaniards, established a communal agricultural and
although there were a goodly number of poultry business. They have become
Anglo-Saxons. As early as 1740 many thoroughly Americanized, take a keen
British, Scotch and Irish populated the interest in politics, read American peri-
Cumberland and the Shenandoah val- odicals, and send their sons and daught-
leys and spread through every southern ers to the state institutions of higher
state east of the Mississippi. The early learning.

population in the Deep South was pre- In 1924 a group of Czeck Catholics
dominantly of Irish ancestry. They were established a small farming community
the "Okies" of the early days. They built near the northern border of Pasco par-
Jacksonville in 1822, Quincy in 1825, Mon- ish, about thirty miles north of Tampa,
ticello in 1828, Marianna and Apalachi- In honor of their great national leader
ola in 1829, and St. Joseph in 1836. Many they named the town Masaryktown. It
wealthy people established their homes has a population of about 300 persons,
in Florida, but their bad treatment of A special population count in 1942
the Indians caused the Seminole wars showed that among the Florida resi-
during 1835-42. dents there were about 17,000 of Cana-

A considerable number of Greeks from dian birth or descent, 7,000 British, 23,000

southern Greece and the Dodecanese Is- Germans, 40,000 Italians, 5,000 "Conchs",

lands moved into Florida as early as 1820. Anglo-Saxons of Bahaman descent, so

As expert sponge-divers they have estab- called because the conch shell fish is

lished themselves as energetic and sue- an important item in their diet; 5,000

cessful citizens. Religiously they are af- Swedes, and 2,000 each of Irish, Scotch,

filiated with the Orthodox Greek Catholic Norwegians, Danes, Russian, Poles,

Church. Czecks, and Greeks, and smaller num-

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bers of Finns, Dutch, Belgians, Hun-
garians, and Turks.

In 195C Florida had a population of
2,711,305 oi which 65.5 per cent was
urban and 34.5 per cent rural. From
1940 to 1950 Florida advanced from the
twenty-seventh to the twentieth state
in rank of population. Her largest cities
are Miami, 249,276; Jacksonville,
204,517; Tampa, 124,681; St. Peters-
burg, 96,738; Orlando, 52,367.

The largest number of European born
residents in Florida, in order of num-
bers ,came from England, Germany, Rus-
sia, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Austria,
Greece and Hungary.

The Bureau of Vital Statistics, State
Board of Health, P. O. Box 210, Jack-
sonville, Florida, is custodian of the
following records: incomplete records
of births from 1865 to 1917, and births
from 1917 to date; incomplete records
of deaths from 1877 to 1917, and deaths
from 1917, to date; marriages from June
1927 to date; divorce records also availa-
ble there.

Some birth and death records are in
the city or county health departments
from 1893 to 1913 in Jacksonville; from
1897 to 1916 in Pensacola; prior to 1917
in St. Petersburg, and varied records
in Ocala, in custody of H. C. Sistrunk,
Box 502, Ocala, Fla.

The office of the County Judge of the
bride's home county has marriage rec-
ords prior to June 1927. These offices
also have the records of wills of their
constituents.

Divorce records before 1927 are filed
in the office of the clerk of the Circuit
Court where divorce was gi'anted; simi-
lar records before or after 1927 in the
mentioned office of the Bureau of Vital
Statistics.

Naturalization records are in the fed-
eral circuit and district courts at Pen-
sacola and Jacksonville.

Well-indexed records of land claims
prior to Florida's statehood are at the
Land Office, Department of Agriculture,
Tallahassee, Florida.

The first U. S. Census of Florida was
taken in 1830. Two census records taken
by the state in April 1935 and April
1945 are in the office of the Commissioner
Oi Agriculture, Tallahassee, Florida.

Libraries: Fort Lauderdale, (Brow-
ard), Public Library; Jacksonville, (Du-
val), Free Public Library, 101 E, Adams
St.; Miami, (Dade), Public Library, 1
Biscayne Blvd.; Orlando, (Orange), Al-
bertson Public Library, 165 E. Central
Ave.; Tallahasse, (Leon), Florida State Li-
brary, Supreme Court Bldg.; Tampa
(Hillsborough), Public Library, 7th Ave.
<§r Franklin St.

(Population

igures to

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census
Reports
Available

Alachua

1824

1830-80

Baker

1861

1870-80

Bay

1913

Benton

1843

1850-80

Bradford

1888

1870-80

Brevard

1844

1860r80

Broward

1913

Calhoun

1836

1840-80

Charlotte

1921

Citrus

1887

Clay

1858

1860-80

Collier

1923

Columbia

1832

1840-80

Dade

1836

495

1840-80

DeSoto

1887

Dixie

1921

Duval

1822

304

1830-80

Escambia

1824

113

1830-80

Flagler
Franklin

B3
D2

1917
1832

3
6

1840-80

Gadsden

1823

1830-80

Gilchrist

1925

Florida County Histories

to nearest tliousand, 1950 Census)

Parent County County Seat

Duval, St. John Gainsville

New River Macclenny

Calhoun, Washington Panama City

Alachua (Now Hernando)

"New River" up to 1861 Starke

"St. Lucas" up to 1855 Titusville

Dade, Palm Beach Ft. Lauderdale

Franklin, Washington Blountstown

DeSoto Punta Gorda

Hernando Inverness

Duval Green Cove Springs

Lee, Monroe Everglades

Alachua Lake City

Monroe Miami

Manatee Arcadia

Lafayette Cross City

St. John Jacksonville

One of two original counties — . Pensacola

St. John, Volusia Bunnell

Jackson Apalachicola

Jackson Quincy

Alachua Trenton

FLORIDA

Map
Index

Name

Glades

Gulf

Hamilton

Hardee

Hendry

Hernando

Highlands

Hillsborough C2

Holmes El

Indian River C4

Jackson Dl

Jefferson

Lafayette

Lake

D3
D2
A2
D3
E3
C2
D3

Lee

Leon

Levy

Liberty

Madison

Manatee

Marion

Martin

Monroe

Mosquito

Nassau

Okaloosa

Al
A2
B3
E3
Dl
B2
Dl
A2
D3
B3
D4
F4
C3
A3
El

Okeechobee D4

Orange C3

Osceola C3

Palm Beach D4

Pasco
Pinellas
Polk
Putnam
St. Johns

C2
C2
C3
B3
A3

St. Lucas C4
St. Lucie D4
Santa Rosa Fl
Sarasota D3
Seminole
Sumter
Suwannee A2
Taylor Al
Union
Volusia
Wakulla
Walton

B3
B3

A3
B3
D2
El

Date
Formed

1921
1925
1827
1921
1929
1843
1921
1834
1848
1925
1822
1827
1856
1887
1887
1824
1845
1855
1827
1855
1844
1925
1824
1824
1824
1915
1917

Washington El

1844
1844
1842
1921
1913
1853
1858
1856
1921
1854
1843
1824
1825

Pop.
By M

9
10

7
14
250
14
12
35
10

3
36
23
52
11

3
14
35
38

8
30

1824 115

1887 11

1909 115

1887 21

1911 159

1861 124

1849 24

1821 25

20
19
29
27
11
17
10

9
74

5
15
12

Census
Reports
Available

3830-80

1870-80

1840-80
1850-80

1830-80
1830-80
1860-80

1830-80
1850-80
1860-80
1830-80
1860-80
1850-80

1830-80
1830-80
1830-80

1850-80

1870-80
1850-80
1830-80

1850-80
1850-80

1860-80
1860-80
1860-80

1860-80
1850-80
1830-80
1830-80

Census records are also available for
(Bradford 1861) 1860.

Parent County County Seat

DeSoto Moore Haven

Calhoun Wewahitchka

Duval Jasper

DeSoto Wauchula

Lee LaBelle

Alachua Brooksville

DeSoto Sebring

Alachua, Monroe Tampa

Walton, Washington Bonifay

St. Lucia Vero Beach

Escambia Marianna

Leon Monticello

Madison Mayo

Orange, Sumter Tavares

Monroe Ft. Myers

Gadsden Tallahassee

Alachua, Monroe Bronson

Franklin, Gadsden Bristol

Jefferson Madison

Hillsboro Bradenton

Alachua, Hillsboro, Mosquito Ocala

Palm Beach, St. Lucie Stuart

St. John Key West

(Changed to Orange, 1845)

Duval Fernandina

Santa Rosa, Walton Crestview

Osceola, Palm Beach,

St. Lucie Okeechobee

(changed from Mosquito, 1845) .... Orlando

Brevard, Orange Kissimmee

Dade West Palm Beach

Hernando Dade City

Hillsboro Clearwater

Brevard, Hillsboro Bartow

Alachua, Marion Palatka

One of two original

counties St. Augustine

(changed to Brevard 1855)

Brevard Fort Pierce

Escambia Milton

Manatee Sarasota

Orange Sanford

Marion, Orange Bushnell

Columbia Live Oak

Madison Perry

Bradford Lake Butler

St. Lucas DeLand

Leon Crawfordville

Jackson DeFuniak Springs

Jackson, Walton Chipley

the following changed counties: New Rich

28 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

County Map of Florida

Georgia

Capital, Atlanta

For one hundred sixty years or more dom offered in Georgia. Today the Bap-

the French and the Spanish were playing tist church has the largest member-

a gigantic game of chess with the domi- ship, followed closely by the Metho-

nance of Georgia as the prize. This con- dists. There are also large congrega-

tinued from 1540 to about early in tions of Presbyterians, Lutherans, Chris-

1700. When South Carolina became a tians, Congregationalists, Catholics, and

royal province, the land between the the Salvation Army.

Savannah and the St. Mary's rivers was Georgia became a royal province in
set aside for a new British colony. 1752. The colony claimed all of the
It was the practise in England at that land between North Carolina and Flori-
time to imprison individuals unable to da, and the Atlantic and the Mississippi.
pay their debts. This practise irked a The first counties in Georgia were
humanitarian army officer and member formed in 1777. These counties covered
of Parliament, James Oglethorpe, who only a fraction of the land claimed by-
conceived the idea of rehabilitating these the province. They covered the section
poor people by taking them to the New between the Savannah River and the
World, giving them a tract of land and Oconee and the Altamaha Rivers, and a
assisting and guiding them in establish- strip about thirty five miles wide ex-
ing their homes. He induced King George tending from the Altamaha to the Florida
II to grant to him and twenty other border. In 1790 there were eleven coun-
men the English territory south of the ties as follows, from north to south:
Savannah. Franklin, Wilks, Greene, Richmond,
With thirty-five families he arrived Burke, Washington, Effingham, Chatham,
there in 1733 and established a com- Liberty Glyn, and Camden. These coun-
munity at the mouth of the Savannah, ties included the area now occupied by
which he named after the river. Half- the present counties, as follows:
way between the mouth of that river Franklin: the south three-fourths of
and the southern border of South Caro- Stephens, Franklin, Banks, Jackson, all
Una, they established Augusta in 1734. of Oconee but the southermost tip, all
In the meantime persecuted Protestants of Clarke but the southern fourth, all
in Europe had been invited to come to of Madison but the southeast tip. Hart
the colony. At first Roman Catholics and Elbert.

were refused to enter the new country. Wilks: the southern tip of Clarke, Ogle-
About 1738 Swiss, German, Italian, thorpe, the southeastern tip of Madison,
Scottish Highlanders, Salzburger, and Wilkes, Lincoln, Columbia, McDuffie,
Moravian settlers had arrived in Georgia. Glascock, Warren, all but west fourth of
In 1739 another community called Fred- Taliaferro, and small piece of east corner
erica was established on the south banks of Greene.

of the Altamaha. Two years later Geor- Greene: small south corner of Oconee,

gia was divided into two counties - north small west corner of Oglethorpe, all of

of the Altamaha was called Savannah, Greene but small north triangle, west

and south of that river Frederica. fourth of Taliaferro, all of Hancock but

Many of the Moravians had come from south fourth, triangular small northeast

North Carolina to Spring Place and New corner of Baldwin.

Echota. Unsuccessful in their desire to Richmond: triangular northeast fourth

convert the Indians to their faith, the of Jefferson and Richmond.

Moravians later moved from Georgia to Burke: all of Jefferson but southwest

Pennsylvania, where they increased rap- triangular quarter and northeast tri-

idly in Bethlehem and Nazareth. angular quarter, Burke, all of Jenkins

Many of the Presbyterians who came to but southwest third, and northern tri-

Georgia as Scottish Highlanders settled angular half of Screven.

in Darien, which they renamed New In- Washington: south fourth of Hancock,

verness. In 1752 a group of Massachus- triangular small southeast corner of

setts Puritans came to Midway. Baldwin, Washington, southwest quarter

The colony early became a haven for of Jefferson, Johnson, east third of

ail persecuted religionists and many came Laurns, east triangular half of Mont-

from many countries to enjoy the free- gomery, Emanuel, southeast quarter of

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Jenkins, Bulloch, Bryan, the west half
of Tattnall, and Toombs.

Effingham: the southern half of Scre-
ven, and Effingham.

Chatham: Chatham, and southern half
of Bryan.

Liberty: eastern half of Tattnall,
Liberty, Long, and Mcintosh.

Glyn: eastern half of Wayne, Glynn,
and northeastern third of Brantley.

Camden: southeastern third of Brant-
ley, eastern half of Charlton, and Cam-
den.

Today Georgia has 159 counties. Only
nineteen states have a larger area.

In 1798 the Territory of Mississippi was
created from the western half of Geor-
gia. Later that territory was formed
into the states of Alabama and Mississip-
pi.

Georgia ratified the federal constitu-
tion on January 2, 1788, and thus be-
came the fourth state in the union.

Many settlers in Virginia and the Caro-
linas were attracted to Georgia by the
early land lotteries. Families who had
lived in the territory for at least one
year were permitted to draw for acre-
ages as large as 400 acres. Such lotteries,
the participant lists of which are now
in the office of the Secretary of State,
were held in 1803, 1806, 1819, 1827, and
1832.

Georgia has the thirteenth largest pop-
ulation among the states, 3,444,570, of
which 45.3 per cent is urban and 54.7
per cent rural. Its largest cities are
Atlanta, 331,314; Savannah, 119,638; Co-
lumbus, 79,611; Augusta, 71,508; Macon,
70,252.

Division of Vital Statistics, State De-

partment of Public Health, 1 Hunter
St., S. W., Atlanta 3, Ga., has on file
birth and death records since Jan. 1,
1919. Atlanta and Savannah city health
offices similar records of earlier dates.

Each county clerk has records of mar-
riages performed in that county.

Records of divorce actions are kept
by Superior Court clerk in county where
granted.

Naturalization records are filed in the
office of the Superior Court in county
where hearing was held. Similar records
in the office of the clerk of the federal
district courts in Atlanta and Savannah.

The deeds to lands are recorded in the
office of the clerk of the Superior
Court where land is located. Abstracts of
land grants are furnished for a fee in
the office of the clerk of the Secretary
of State.

Wills are recorded in the office of
the clerk of the Superior Court in county
where testator resided.

Libraries: Albany, (Dougherty), Carne-
gie Public Library, 215 No. Jackson St.;
Atlanta, (Fulton), Public Library, 126
Carnegie Way, (Genealogy); Georgia
State Dept. of Archives and History Li-
brary, Rhodes Memorial Hall, 1516 Peach-
tree Rd., has thousands of valuable early
records, deeds, and marriage certificates,
and personal histories of early residents,
also many volumes of Georgia colonial
history; Columbus, (Muscogee), W. C.
Bradley Memorial Library, (Chatta-
hoochee Valley History); Macon, (Bibb),
Washington Memorial Library, 1190
Washington Ave.; Savannah, (Chatham),
Georgia Historical Society Library, 501
Whitaker St.; Savannah Public Library,
2002 Bull St.

Georgia County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Appling

1818

1820-80

Atkinson

1917

Bacon

1914

Baker

1825

1830-80

Baldwin

1803

1830-80

Banks

1858

1860-80

Barrow

1914

Bartow

1832

1870-80

Ben Hill

1906

Berrien

1856

1860-80

Bibb

1822

114

1830-80

Bleckley

1912

Brantley

1920

Brooks

1851

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Creek Indian Lands Baxley

Coffee Pearson

Appling, Pearce Alma

Early Newton

Creek Indian Lands Milledgeville

Franklin Homer

Jackson, Walton Winder

Cass Cartersville

Irwin, Wilcox Fitzgerald

Lowndes Nashville

Jones, Monroe Macon

Pulaski Cochran

Chalton, Pierce Nahunta

Lowndes, Thomas Quitman

GEORGIA

Map

Date

Pop.

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Bryan

1793

Bulloch

1796

Burke

1777

Butts

1825

Calhoun

1854

Camden

1777

Campbell

1828

Candler

1914

Carroll

1826

Catoosa

1853

Charlton

1854

Chatham

1777

151

Chattahoochee CI 1854

Chattooga

1838

Cherokee

1831

Clarke

1801

Clay

1854

Clayton

1858

Clinch

1850

Cobb

1832

Coffee

Colquitt

1856

Columbia

1790

Cook

1918

Coweta

1826

Crawford

1822

Crisp

1905

Dade

1837

Dawson

1857

Decatur

1823

DeKalb

1822

136

Dodge

1870

Dooly

1821

Dougherty

1852

Douglas

1870

Early

1818

Echols

1858

Effingham

1777

Elbert

1790

Emanuel

1812

Evans

1914

Fannin

1854

Fayette

1821

Floyd

1832

Forsyth

1832

Franklin

1784

Fulton

1853

474

Gilmer

1832

Glascock

1857

Glynn

1777

Gordon

1850

Grady

1905

Greene

1786

Gwinnett

1818

Habersham

1818

Hall

1818

Hancock

1793

Haralson

1856

Census
Reports

Available Parent County County Seat

1820-80 Effingham, Liberty Pembroke

1860-80 Creek Indian Lands Statesboro

1820-80 St. George Parish Waynesboro

1830-80 Henry, Monroe Jackson

1860-80 Baker & Early Morgan

1820-80 St. Mary, St. Thomas Woodbine

1830-80 Carroll, Coweta

Merged Fulton 1932

Bulloch, Emanuel Metter

1830-80 Indian Lands Carrollton

1860-80 Walker Ringgold

1860-80 Wayne, Appling Folkston

1820-80 St. Phillip Savannah

1860-80 Muscogee, Randolph Cusseta

1840-80 Floyd Summerville

1840-80 Cherokee Lands Canton

1820-80 Jackson Athens

1860-80 Early, Randolph Ft. Gaines

1860-80 'Fayette, Henry Jonesboro

1850-80 Wayne Homerville

1840-80 Cherokee Marietta

1860-80 Douglas

1860-80 Irwin, Thomas Moultrie

1820-80 Richmond Appling

1820-80 Berrien Adel

1830-80 Indian Lands Newman

1830-80 Houston Knoxville

Dooly Cordele

1840-80 Walker Trenton

1860-80 Forsythe, Gilmer Dawsonville

1830-80 Early Bainbridge

1830-80 Fayette, Henry Decatur

1870-80 Montgomery, Pulaski Eastman

1830-80 Indian Lands Vienna

1860-80 Baker Albany

Carroll Douglasville

1820-80 Creek Indian Lands Blakely

1860-80 Appling, Irwin Statenville

1820-80 St. Mathews '. Springfield

1820-80 Wilkes Elberton

1820-80 Montgomery Swainsboro

Bulloch, Tattnall Claxton

1860-80 Gilmer, Union Blue Ridge

1830-SO Indian Lands Fayetteville

1840-80 Cherokee Rome

1840-80 Cherokee Gumming

1830-80 Cherokee Lands Carnesville

1860-80 DeKalb Atlanta

1840-80 Cherokee Ellijay

1860-80 Warren Gibson

1820-80 St. David, St. Patrick Brunswick

1850-80 Cass, Floyd Calhoun

Decatur ,Thomas Cairo

1820-80 Washington Greensboro

1820-80 Cherokee Lands Lawrenceville

1820-80 Cherokee Lands Clarkesville

1820-80 Cherokee Lands Gainesville

1820-80 Greene, Washington Sparta

1860-80 Carroll, Polk Buchanan

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Harris

1827

1830-80

Hart

1853

1860-80

Heard

1830

1840-80

Henry

1821

1830-80

Houston

1821

1830-80

Irwin

1818

1820-80

Jackson

1796

1820-80

Jasper

1812

1820-80

Jeff Davis

1905

Jefferson

1796

1820-80

Jenkins

1905

Johnson

1858

1860-80

Jones

1807

1820-80

Lamar

1920

Lanier

1919

Laurens

1807

1820-80

Lee

1827

1830-80

Liberty

1777

1820-80

Lincoln

1796

1820-80

Long

1920

Lowndes

1835

1830-80

Lumpkin

1832

1840-80

McDuffie

1870

1880

Mcintosh

1793

1820-80

Macon

1837

1840-80

Madison

1811

1820-80

Marion

1827

1830-80

Meriwether

1827

1830-80

Miller

1856

1860-80

Milton

1857

1860-80

Mitchell

1857

1860-80

Monroe

1821

1830-80

Montgomery D3

1793

1820-80

Morgan

1807

1820-80

Murray

1832

1840-80

Muscogee

1826

118

1830-80

Newton

1821

1830-80

Oconee

1875

Ogelthorpe

1783

1820-80

Paulding

1832

1840-80

Peach

1924

Pickens

1853

1860-80

Pierce

1857

1860-80

Pike

1822

1830-80

Polk

1851

1860-80

Pulaski

1808

1820-80

Putnam

1807

1820-80

Quitman

1858

1860-80

Rabun

1819

1830-80

Randolph

1828

1830-80

Richmond

1777

109

1820-80

Rockdale

1870

Schley

1857

1860-80

Screven

1793

1820-80

Seminole

1920

Spalding

1851

1860-80

Stephens

1905

Stewart

1830

1840-80

Sumter

1831

1840-80

Talbot

1827

1830-80

Taliaferro

1825

1830-80

Muscogee Hamilton

Elbert, Franklin Hartwell

Oarroll, Ooweta Franklin

Indian Lands McDonough

Indian Lands Perry

Indian Lands Ocilla

Franklin Jefferson

Baldwin Monticello

Appling, Ooffee Hazelhurst

Burke, Warren Louisville

Bullock, Burke, Scheven Millen

Emanuel, Laurens Wrightsville

Baldwin Gray

Monroe, Pike Baruesville

Berrien, Lounders Lakeland

Washington, Wilkinson Dublin

Indian Lands Leesburg

St, Andrew, St. James Hinesville

Wilkes Lincolnton

Liberty Ludowici

Irwin Valdosta

Oherokee Dahlonega

Columbia, Warren Thomson

Liberty Darien

Dooly, Houston, Lee Oglethorpe

Olarke , Elbert Danielsville

Troup, Lee, Muscogee Buena Vista

Troup Greenville

Baker, Early Colquitt

Merged Fulton 1911

Baker Camilla

Indian Lands Forsyth

Washington, Wilkinson Mt. Vernon

Baldwin Madison

Cherokee Chatsworth

Creek Lands Columbus

Baldwin, Henry, Walton Covington

Olarke Watkinsville

Wilkes Lexington

Oherokee Dallas

Houston, Macon Fort Valley

Cherokee, Gilmer Jasper

Appling, Ware Blackshear

Monroe Zebulon

Paulding Cedartown

Laurens Hawkinsville

Baldwin Eatonton

Randolph, Stewart Georgetown

Cherokee Lands Clayton

Lee Outhbert

St. Paul Parish Augusta

Henry Conyers

Macon, Marion, Sumter Ellaville

Burke, Effingham Sylvania

Decatur Donalsonville

Henry, Pike Griffin

Franklin, Habersham Toccoa

Randolph Lumpkin

Lee Americus

Muscogee, Troup Talbotton

Green, Hancock,

Warren, Wilkes Orawfordville

GEORGIA

Name

Census
Map Date fop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Tattnall

1801

1820-80

Taylor

1853

1860-80

Telfair

1807

1820-80

Terrell

1856

1860-80

Thomas

1825

1830-80

Tift

1905

Toombs

1905

Towns

1856

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Montgomery Reidsville

Orawford, Macon,

Talbot, Monroe Butler

Wilkinson McRae

Lee, Randolph Dawson

Decatur, Irwin Thomasville

Berrien, Worth Tifton

Emanuel, Tattanall,

Montgomery Lyons

Rabun, Union Hiawassee

County Map of Georgia

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Map
Index

Dale
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census

Reports

Available

Treutlen

1917

Troup

1826

1830-80

Turner

1905

Twiggs

1809

1830-80

Union

1832

1840-80

Upson

1824

1830-80

Walker

1833

1840-80

Walton

1818

1820-80

Ware

1824

1830-80

Warren

1793

1820-80

Washington

1784

1820-80

Wayne

1803

1820-80

Webster

1856

1860-80

Wheeler

1912

White

1857

1860-80

Whitfield

1851

1860-80

Wilcox

1857

1860-80

Wilkes

1777

1820-80

Wilkinson

1803

1820-80

Worth

1852

1860-80

♦Census Notes -

- Bartow census 1870

Parent County County Seat

Emanuel, Montgomery Soperton

Indian Lands LaGrange

Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox Ashburn

Wilkinson Jeffersonville

Cherokee Blairsville

Crawford, Pike Thomaston

Murray LaFayette

Cherokee Lands Monroe

Irwin Waycross

Wilkes Warrenton

Indian Lands Sandersville

Indian Lands Jesup

Randolph Preston

Montgomery Alamo

Habersham, Lumpkin Cleveland

Murray Dalton

Dooly, Irwin, Pulaski Abbeville

Washington Washington

Creek Cession Irwinton

Dooly, Irwin Sylvester

previously, 1840-1860, as Cass.

Idaho

Capital, Boise

Idaho was the last state to be carved
from the Oregon Territory. When Idaho
became a territory on March 3, 1863,
it included all of Montana and nearly
all of Wyoming. Montana became a
territory in 1864 and Wyoming in 1868.
The six original counties of Idaho were
formed between 1861 and 1865. It v/as
admitted as a state July 3, 1890, the
forty-third state in the union.

The southern part of the state, which
borders Utah was the first section to
be settled. Mormon emigrants from
northern Europe were the first to estab-
lish permanent settlements in the re-
gion.

A mining boom in 1860 attracted
people from the East and Mid- West to
the mountainous Idaho valleys. The
later construction of large irrigation
systems and districts around the long
Snake River section about 1910 brought
many western and mid-western farm
families to take advantage of the farm-
ing opportunities in the new state.

Catholic and Protestant churches are
represented in most Idaho communities,
but more than half of its church mem-
bership belongs to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The prevailing nationalities among
Idaho residents, in order of dominance,

are Swedes, Germans, English, Norwe-
gians, Danes, Russians and Italians. It
is interesting to note that the largest
colony of Basques in the United States
i3 situated around Boise, Idaho. Over
the years, thousands of them have come
here to herd the large flocks of sheep
grazing over Idaho's vast mountainous
country. Less than a million Basques
live in the French Pyrenees and eastern
Spain. Their language, always a puzzle
to linguists, is an old one, entirely
unlike any other in the world.

In population Idaho ranks forty-third
among the states. The 1950 census gave
it 588,637 inhabitants. Although this is
an increase of about 64,000 since the
1940 census, it has gone back one
step in the population rank in the last
ten year. The population distribution
is 42.9 per cent urban, and 57.1 per
cent rural.

The largest cities are Boise, 34,393;
Pocatello, 26,131; Idaho Falls, 19,218;
Twin Falls, 17,600 ; Nampa, 16.185;
Lewiston, 12,985; Coeur D' Alene, 12,198.

The Division of Vital Statistics, Box
640, Boise, Idaho, has information on
births and deaths from July 1, 1911.

The county recorder has records of
marriages solemnized in his county. No
marriage licenses were required before

IDAHO

March 11. 1895.

The county clerk has records of births
in that county since 1907. Wills and pro-
bate matters are also filed in the clerk's
office.

All records pertaining to land trans-
actions are in custody of the county re-
corder in the respective county court

houses.

The first U. S. Census of Idaho was
taken in 1870.

Libraries — Boise, (Ada), Public Li-
brary, 815 Washington St.; Nampa, (Can-
yon), Carnegie Library; Pocatello, (Ban-
nock), Public Library; Twin Falls, (Twin
Falls), Public Library, 434 Second St., E.

Idaho County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

1870-80

Ada

1864

Adams

1911

Alturas

1863

Bannock

1893

Bear Lake

1875

Benewah

1915

Bingham

1885

Blaine

1895

Boise

1863

Bonner

1907

Bonneville

1911

Boundary

1915

Butte

1917

Camas

1917

Canyon

1891

Caribou

1919

Cassia

1879

Clark

1919

Clearwater

1911

Custer

1881

Elmore

1889

Franklin

1913

Fremont

1893

Gem

1915

Gooding

1913

Idaho

1862

Jefferson

1913

Jerome

1919

Kootenai*

1864

Latah**

1888

Lemhi

1869

Lewis

1911

Lincoln

1895

Madison

1913

Minidoka

1913

Nez Perce

1861

Oneida

1864

Owyhee

1863

Payette

1917

Power

1913

Shoshone

1861

Teton

1915

1870-80

Parent County County Seat

Boise Boise

Washington Council

Original county; discontinued

Oneida, Bear Lake Pocatello

Oneida Paris

Kootenai St. Maries

Oneida Blackfoot

Alturas Hailey

Original county Idaho City

Kootenai Sandpoint

Bingham Idaho Falls

Bonner Bonner's Ferry

Bingham, Blaine, Jefferson Arco

Mackay

Blaine Fairfield

Selby

Owyhee, Ada Caldwell

Bannock, Oneida Soda Springs

Oneida Burley

Albion

Fremont Dubois

Nez Perce Orofino

Alturas Challis

Alturus Mountain Home

Oneida Preston

Bingham, Lemhi St. Anthony

Boise, Canyon Emmett

Lincoln Gooding

Original county Grangeville

Fremont Rexburg

Rigby

Gooding, Lincoln Jerome

Nez Perce Coeur d'Alene

Kootenai Moscow

Idaho Salmon

Nez Perce Nez Perce

Alturas Shoshone

Fremont Rexburg

Lincoln Rupert

Original county Lewiston

Original county Malad

Original county Murphy

Canyon Payette

Bingham, Blaine, Oneida .... American Falls

Original county Wallace

Madison Driggs

36 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Scat

Twin Falls E2 1907 41 Cassia Twin Falls

Valley C2 1917 4 Boise, Idaho Cascade

Washington CI 1879 9 Boise Weiser

♦Kootenai county was created in 1864, but not organized or officered until 1881.
**Latah County was created and organized by U. S. Congressional enactment,
said to be the only county in the United States so created.

County Map of Idaho

CLEARWATER

lEZ PERCE

LEWIS

OWYHEE

TWIN FALLS

Illinois

capital, Springfield

Illinois, the transportation center of third Illinois county, came into existanci>

the United States, was visited by the in 1814. And north of that county, Clark

French explorers in the late sixteen County, also along the Wabash, was

hundreds. Its fertile land appealed to formed in 1819. Those four counties were

members of various early expeditions the forerunners of 98 others to be formed

passing through during their exploring in Illinois. The last two of her present

or hunting or war activities. Many of 102 counties were formed in 1859, Ford

them returned later and farmed the and Douglas.

deep, rich soil along its many rivers Illinois became the twenty-first state

and streams. in the union when she gained state-

The southern part was the first to hood in 1818. She has a population of

be occupied by permanent settlers. They 8,712,176; 77.6 per cent urban and 22.4

came from the earlier southern states, rural. She ranks fourth in population

including North Carolina, Virginia and among the states, although in 1940 she

Kentucky. Others came from Maryland ranked third, with a population almost

and Pennsylvania. This condition existed a million less than in 1950. Her largest

until some years after Illinois had be- cities are Chicago, 3,620,962; Peoria,

come a state. 111,856; Rockford, 92,927; East St. Louis,

Settlers began to arrive in the north- 82,295; Springfield, 81,628.
ern section about 1825. Generally they A communication from the Depart-

came from the New England states. ment of Public Health at Springfield

With the beginning of the industrial says, "Illinois has no provisions for giv-

growth of Illinois, European emigrants ing genealogical service from the offic-

flocked there by the thousands every ial birth and death records. Our law

month. They furnished the man-power authorizes the State Department of Pub-

for the factories and industrial plants lie Health, the County Clerks, and the

that sprung up like mushrooms in the Local Registrars to issue a certified copy

Lake Michigan section. That is one of a specified record at the statutory fee

reason why more than forty per cent of $1.00 per copy. The law forbids us to

of the state population centers in that issue any information from the records

area. They came from Ireland, and except by certified copy as described,
the south European countries, Germans "Marriage records are in sole cus-

flocked there until they form about tody of the County Clerks. Births and

one-fourth of the population. They are deaths from 1877 to 1916 were regis-

closely crowded by the Poles, Italians, tered (if at all) by the County Clerks.

Swedes and Russians. In a few counties there are some records

Illinois was part of the Northwest existing prior to 1877, also in some

Territory which the United States ob- cities.

tained after the Revolutionary War "After 1916, all original birth and

irom Great Britain to whom it hau oeen death certificates have been deposited

ceded by France in 1763. It became with this department. A copy of each

part of the United States in 1783. It is deposited with the County Clerk of

was organized as American territory the county where the event occurred,
in 1787. It included the land north and "Such genealogical research as is done

west of the Ohio River, east of the in the State offices is done in the Illinois

Mississippi, and south of Canada, Illi- State Archives from its miscellaneous

nois became the third of five territories historical records. For further informa-

and eventual states formed from that tion about the services from the Archives

area. That was in 1818. communicate with The State Archivist,

St. Clair became the first county or- Archive Building, Springfield, Illinois,
ganized in the Illinois Territory. That "The best source of the kind of in-

was in 1790. It extended along the formation you request is to be found in

Kaskaskia River. Five years later an- a publication by the Historical Records

other county was formed, Randolph, Survey Project of the W. P. A. in May,

situated farther south along the Kas- 1941, entitled, "Guide to Public Vital

kaskia and the Mississippi. Farther east, Statistics Records in Illinois," (137 pp.

along the Wabash, Edwards county, the mimeographed)."

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

The United States Census Records
are intact from 1820 on. Some sched-
ules are in the State Library in Spring-
field.

Counties with a population of more
than 70,000 have probate courts, in
other counties probate matters and
wills are handled by the County Clerk.
Matters pertaining to real estate are in
the offices of the County Recorder of
Deeds.

The Newberry Library in Chicago
one of the largest in the west, has val-
uable genealogical volumes. In Spring-
field are the State Historical and the
State libraries. In most of the counties
in the state are libraries with more
or less genealogical information .

Libraries: Bloomington, (McLean),
Withers Public Library, 202 E. Wash-
ington St.; Chicago, (Cook), Chicago
Historical Society Library, North Ave.
&. Clark St; Public Library, 78 E. Wash-
ington St.; A. N. Marquis C. Library,
210 E. Ohio, (Biographical records); New-
berry Library, 60 W. Walton; U. S. Rail-
road Retirement Board Library, 844 Rush
St.; University of Chicago Library, Zone
37; Decatur, (Macon), Public Library,
457 N. Main St.; East St. Louis. (St.
Clair), Public Library, 9th & State St.;
Peoria, (Peoria), Public Library, 111. No,
Monroe St.; Rockford, (Winnebago), 215
N. Wyman St.; Springfield, (Sangamon),
Illinois State Historical Library, Centen-
nial Bldg., (Genealogy).

Illinois County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census
Reports
Available

Adams

1825

1830-80

Alexander

1819

1820-80

Bond

1817

1820-80

Boone

1837

1840-80

Brown

1839

1840-80

Bureau

1837

1840-80

Calhoun

1825

1830-80

Carroll

1839

1840-80

Cass

1837

1840-80

Champaign

1833

106

1840-80

Christian

1839

1840-80

Clark

1819

1820-80

Clay

1824

1830-80

Clinton

1824

1830-80

Coles

1830

1840-80

Cook

1831

4508

1840-80

Crawford

1815

1820-80

Cumberland C3

1843

1850-80

Dane

1839

DeKalb

1837

1840-80

DeWitt

1839

1840-80

Douglas

1859

1860-80

DuPage

1839

155

1840-80

Edgar

1823

1830-80

Edwards

1814

1820-80

Effingham

1831

1840-80

Fayette

1821

1830-80

Ford

1859

1860-80

Franklin

1818

1820-80

Fulton

1823

1830-80

Gallatin

1812

1830-80

Greene

1821

1830-80

Grundy

1841

1850-80

Hamilton

1821

1830-80

Hancock

1825

1830-80

Hardin

1839

1840-80

Parent County County Seat

Pike Quincy

Unorg. Terr Cairo

Madison Greenville

Winnebago Belvidere

Schuyler Mt. Sterling

Putnam Princeton

Pike Hardin

Jo Daviess Mt. Carroll

Morgan Virginia

Vermillion Urbana

Sangamon Taylorville

Crawford Marshall

Wayne, Fayette Louisville

Washington, Bond, Fayette,

Crawford Carlyle

Clark Charleston

Putnam Chicago

Edwards Robinson

Coles Toledo

Name changed in 1840 to Christian County.

Kane Sycamore

Mason, McLean Clinton

Coles : Tuscola

Cook Wheaton

Clark Paris

Madison, Gallatin Albion

Fayette, Crawford Effingham

Bond, Wayne, Clark, Jefferson .... Vandalia

Unorg. Terr Paxton

White Benton

Pike Lewiston

Randolph Shawneetown

Madison Carrollton

LaSalle Morris

White McLeansboro

Unorg. Terr Carthage

Pope Elizabethtown

ILLINOIS

Census

Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Henderson Bl 1841 8 1850-80 Warren Oquawka

Henry B2 1825 46 1830-80 Knox Cambridge

Iroquois B3 1833 32 1840-80 Unorg. Terr Watseka

Jackson E2 1816 38 1820-80 Randolph, Johnson Murphysboro

Jasper D3 1831 12 1840-80 Clay, Crawford Newton

Jefferson D3 1819 36 1820-80 Edwards, White Mt. Vernon

Jersey D2 1839 15 1840-80 Greene Jerseyville

JoDaviess A2 1827 21 1830-80 Henry, Putnam Galena

Johnson E3 1812 9 1820-80 Randolph Vienna

Kane A4 1836 150 1840-80 LaSalle Geneva

Kankakee B3 1835 74 1860-80 Iroquois, Will Kankakee

Kendall A3 1841 12 1850-80 LaSalle, Kane Yorkville

Knox B2 1825 54 1830-80 Unorg. Terr Galesburg

Lake A3 1839 179 1840-80 McHenry Waukegan

LaSalle B3 1831 101 1840-80 Putnam Ottawa

Lawrence D4 1821 21 1830-80 Crawford, Edwards Lawrenceville

Lee A3 1839 36 1840-80 Ogle Dixon

1837 38 1840-80 LaSalle, McLean Pontiac

1839 31 1840-80 Sangamon Lincoln

1830 28 1830-80 Schuyler Macomb

1836 51 1840-80 Cook Woodstock

1830 77 1840-80 Tazewell, Unorg. Terr Bloomlngton

1839 98 1830-80 Shelby Decatur

1829 44 1830-80 Madison Carlinville

1812 182 1820-80 St. Clair Edwardsville

1823 42 1830-80 Fayette, Jefferson Salem

1839 13 1840-80 Putnam Lacon

1841 15 1850-80 Tazewell Havana

1843 14 1850-80 Pope, Jefferson Metropolis

1839 10 1840-80 Sangamon Petersburg

1825 17 1830-80 Unorg. Terr Aledo

1816 13 1820-80 Randolph, St. Clair Waterloo

Montgomery C2 1821 32 1830-80 Bond, Madison Hillsboro

Morgan C2 1823 36 1830-80 Sangamon Jacksonville

Moultrie C3 1843 13 1850-80 Shelby, Mason Sullivan

Ogle A3 1836 33 1840-80 JoDaviess Oregon

1825 174 1830-80 Fulton Peoria

1827 22 1830-80 Randolph, Jackson Pinckneyville

1841 14 1850-80 DeWitt, Macon Monticello

1821 22 1830-80 Madison, Bond, Clark Pittsfield

1816 6 1820-80 Johnson Golconda

1843 14 1850-80 Johnson Mound City

1825 5 1830-80 JoDaviess Hennepin

1795 32 1820-80 NW Territory Chester

1814 17 1850-80 Clay, Lawrence Olney

1833 134 1840-80 JoDaviess Rock Island

1790 206 1820-80 NW Territory Belleville

1847 33 1850-80 Gallatin Harrisburg

1821 131 1830-80 Bond, Madison Springfield

1825 10 1830-80 Pike, Fulton Rushville

1839 7 1840-80 Morgan Winchester

1827 24 1830-80 Fayette Shclbyville

1839 9 1840-80 Knox, Putnam Toulon

1837 42 1840-80 JoDavies, Winnebago Freeport

1827 76 1830-80 Fayette Pekin

1818 21 1820-80 Johnson Jonesboro

1826 87 1830-80 Unorg. Terr Danville

1827 15 1830-80 Edwards Mt. Carmel

1825 22 1830-80 Peoria, Schuyler Monmouth

Washington D2 1818 14 1820-80 St. Clair Nashville

Livingston B3

Logan C2

McDonough B2

McHenry A3

McLean

Macon

Macoupin

Madison

Marion

Marshall

Mason

Massac

Menard

Mercer

Monroe

B3
C3
C2
D2
D3
B2
C2
E3
C2
B2
D2

C3
A3

B2
E2
C3
CI
E3
E3
B3
E2
D3

Peoria

Perry

Piatt

Pike

Pope

Pulaski

Putnam

Randolph

Richland

Rock Island B2

St. Clair D2

Saline E3

Sangamon C2

Schuyler C2

Scott C2

Shelby C3

Stark B2

Stephenson A2

Tazewell B2

Union E3

Vermillion C4

Wabash D4

Warren B2

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available Parent County-

County Seat

Wayne D3 1819 21 1820-80 Edwards Fairfield

White D3 1816 21 1820-80 Gallatin Carmi

Whiteside A2 1839 49 1840-80 JoDaviess, Henry Morrison

Will B3 1836 134 1840-80 Cook, Iroquois Joliet

Williamson E3 1839 49 1840-80 Franklin Marion

Winnebago A3 1836 152 1840-80 JoDaviess Rockford

Woodford B3 1841 21 1850-80 Tazewell, McLean Eureka

County Map of Illinois

Indiana

Capital, Indianapolis

When the French explorers first came clerk of each county where the cere-

into the Indiana region about 1679, the mony was performed,

entire territory was more or less a wilder- Birth records before October, 1907

ness inhabited by a few Indians. Gradual- are in the office of the county health

ly, as more settlers came into the At- officer in the respective county seats;

lantic coast region, the Indians roaming after October, 1907, in the office of the

that section were driven west of the state health department, division of vital

Mississippi River. Numerous tribes re- records, Indianapolis, Ind.

mained in the Indiana section for many Death records before October, 1899

years, as the name would indicate. Dur- should be in the office of the county

ing most of the 1700's. the only white health officer; after October 1899, in the

men there were some fur traders. office of the division of vital records in

The first counties to be settled were Indianapolis.
Knox, Harrison, Switzerland and Clark, Records of wills and all probate mat-
in the extreme south end. Settlers in ters are in the custody of the Clerk of
those counties came from Virginia, Ken- the Circuit Court in all county seats,
tucky and the Carolinas, although a Real estate records, land titles, etc.,
group of Swiss emigrants established are in the office of the county recorder
themselves in the southeast part of the in the various counties,
state. The Wabash and the Ohio river The first U. S. Census taken in In-
sections drew many of the first set- diana was in 1800.

tiers. Many Germans and Irish came Libraries: Evansville, (Vanderburgh),
there about 1830. About twenty years Public Library, 22 S. E. Fifth St.; In-
later New Englanders established them- dianapolis, (Marion), Indiana Historical
selves in the northern counties. The Society, William Henry Smith Memorial
central part of the state was the last Library, 140 N. Senate Ave. (North-
to be settled. Less than seventy years west Territory data); Public Library,
after the settlement of the state, the Meridian & St. Clair Sts. (Genealogy);
population had reached more than a Muncie, (Delaware), Public Library,
million and a half. Abhoring slavery 301 E. Jackson St.; South Bend, (St.
Quakers left Tennessee and the Caro- Joseph), Northern Indiana Historical
Unas and established themselves in Society, 112 S. Lafayette Blvd.
Wayne and Randolph counties along the Lists of a score or more early day his-
Ohio border mid-way north and south in tories of the state and its people may be
Indiana. obtained in most libraries in the state.

With the development of the industri- Most of the census records may be

al area of the Calumet section, adjacent obtained at the State Library,

to the South Chicago area in the north- Highly valuable in all research activ-

west part of the state many Central ities in Indiana is a compilation by the

Europeans flocked there to man the Indiana State Library at Indianapolis

rapidly increasing factories. of "A Consolidated Index to Thirty-two

Admitted to the union, 1816. Popu- Histories of Indianapolis and Indiana,

lation, nearly four million; white, 97 per 1820-1830".

cent; population rank among the states, For a detailed account of the early

twelfth; population density, 108.4 persons settlements of the state, the reader is

per square mile. referred to the 1932 Year Book of the

The state is divided into 92 counties Society of Indiana Pioneers in which

organized during the sixty year period Charles Nebeker Thompson has an article

from 1790 to 1850. dealing with "The Pioneer Period in

The marriage records are kept by the Indiana."

Indiana County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)
Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Adams B3 1838 22 1840-80 Warren Decatur

Allen A3 1823 184 1830-80 Indian Lands Fort Wayne

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Bartholomew C3

1821

1830-80

Benton

1840

1840-80

Blackford

1834

1840-80

Boone

1831

1830-80

Brown

1836

1840-80

Carroll

1828

1830-80

Cass

1828

1830-80

Clark

1801

1820-80

Clay

1825

1830-80

Clinton

1830

1830-80

Crawford

1818

1820-80

Daviess

1817

1830-80

Dearborn

1803

1820-80

Decatur

1821

1830-80

DeKalb

1836

1840-80

Delaware

1828

1820-80

Dubois

1817

1820-80

Elkhart

1830

1830-80

Fayette

1819

1820-80

Floyd

1819

1820-80

Fountain

1826

1830-80

Franklin

1811

1820-80

Fulton

1836

1840-80

Gibson

1813

1820-80

Grant

1831

1840-80

Greene

1820

1830-80

Hamilton

1823

1830-80

Hancock

1828

1830-80

Harrison

1809

1820-80

IJendricks

1824

1830-80

Henry

1822

1830-80

Howard

1844

1850-80

Huntington

I B3

1834

1840-80

Jackson

1815

1820-80

Jasper

1838

1840-80

Jay

1837

1840-80

Jefferson

1810

1820-80

Jennings

1816

1820-80

Johnson

1822

1830-80

Knox

1787

1820-80

Kosciusko

1835

1840-80

Lagrange

1832

1840-80

Lake

1837

368

1840-80

LaPorte

1832

1840-80

Lawrence

1818

1820-80

Madison

1823

104

1830-80

Marion

1821

552

1830-80

Marshall

1836

1840-80

Martin

1820

1820-80

Miami

1834

1840-80

Monroe

1818

1820-80

Montgomery B2

1823

1830-80

Morgan

1822

1830-80

Newton

1857

1860-80

Noble

1836

1840-80

Ohio

1844

1850-80

Orange

1816

1820-80

Owen

1818

1820-80

Parent County County Seat

Indian Lands Columbus

Indian Lands Fowler

Jay Hartford City

Indian Lands Lebanon

Morgan, Johnson, Monroe,

Lawrence Nashville

Indian Lands Delphi

Indian Lands Logansport

Knox Jeffersonville

Indian Lands Brazil

Indian Lands Frankfort

Harrison English

Indian Lands Washington

Original county Lawrenceburg

Indian Lands Greensburg

Allen Auburn

Henry Muncie

Orange, Perry Jasper

Indian Lands Goshen

Wayne Connersville

Harrison, Clay New Albany

Montgomery Covington

Wayne, Ripley Brookville

Indian Lands Rochester

Knox Princeton

Delaware Marion

Knox Bloomfield

Hancock, Marion Noblesville

Madison Greenfield

Northwest Territory Corydon

Indian Lands Danville

Indian Lands New Castle

Indian Lands (Originally

Richardville County) Kokomo

Grant Huntington

Washington Brownstown

Indian Lands Rensselaer

Randolph Portland

Indian Lands Madison

Indian Lands Vernon

Indian Lands Franklin

Northwest Territory Vincennes

Indian Lands Warsaw

Unorganized Territory Lagrange

Porter, Newton CrownPoint

Indian Lands LaPorte

Orange Bedford

Fayette Anderson

From Ohio Indianapolis

Indian Lands Plymouth

Indian Lands Shoals

Cass Peru

Orange Bloomington

Indian Lands Crawfordsville

Delaware Martinsville

Jasper Kentland

Elkhart Albion

Dearborn Rising Sun

Crawford, Washington Paoli

Indian Lands Spencer

INDIANA

Parke C2 1821 16 1830-80 Indian Lands Rockville

Perry D2 1814 17 1820-80 Harrison, Warrick Cannelton

Pike D2 1817 15 1820-80 Indian Lands Petersburg

Porter A2 1832 40 1840-80 Indian Lands Valparaiso

Posey Dl 1814 20 1820-80 Knox Mount Vernon

Pulaski A2 1839 12 1840-80 Cass Winamac

Putnam C2 1821 23 1830-80 Indian Lands Greencastle

Randolph B3 1818 27 1820-80 Wayne Winchester

Ripley C3 1817 19 1820-80 Indian Lands Versailles

Rush C3 1821 20 1830-80 Franklin Rushville

Saint Joseph A2 1830 205 1830-80 Indian Lands South Bend

1820 12 1820-80 Clark, Jackson Scottsburg

1821 28 1830-80 Indian Lands Shelbyville

1817 16 1820-80 Warrick Rockport

1850 15 1840-80 Marshall Knox

1837 17 1840-80 Indian Lands Angola

1817 24 1820-80 Unorganized Territory Sullivan

1814 8 1820-80 Indian Lands Vevay

1826 74 1830-80 Montgomery LaFayette

1844 16 1850-80 Hamilton Tipton

1821 6 1830-80 Wayne Liberty

Scott
Shelby
Spencer
Starke
Steuben
Sullivan
Switzerland C3
Tippecanoe B2
Tipton B2

Union C3

C3
C3
D2
A2
A3
C2

County Map of Indiana

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Vanderburgh Dl

1818

160

1820-80

Vermillion

1824

1830-80

Vigo

1818

105

1820-80

Wabash

1835

1840-80

Warren

1825

1830-80

Warrick

1813

1820-80

Washington

1813

1820-80

Wayne

1810

1820-80

Wells

1837

1840-80

White

1834

1840-80

Whitley

1828

1840-80

Parent County County Seat

Indian Lands Evansville

Parke Newport

Indian Lands Terre Haute

Huntington Wabash

Indian Lands Williamsport

Indian Lands Boonville

Indian Lands Salem

Indian Lands Richmond

Huntington, Allen Bluffton

Carroll Monticello

Huntington Columbia

Iowa

Capital, Des Moines

Outside of a few explorers and priests
passing by on the Mississippi and some
fur traders trapping along the rivers, no
white man came to Iowa until about
1788.

Before Iowa became a territory in
its own name in 1838, it had been part
of the Missouri Territory, 1812-1821;
•unorganized territory, 1821>-1834; the
Michigan Territory, 1834-1836, and the
Wisconsin Territory, 1836-1838.

Five years prior to becoming a Ter-
ritory, Iowa had an influx of white set-
tlers after a treaty with some of the
numerous Indian tribes inhabiting the
country had made it possible for settle-
ments to be established. The first set-
tlers came from the Eastern and the
Southern states. Most of them were or-
iginally from the British Isles. The
rapidity of growth is indicated by the
fact that the Iowa Territory counted
its inhabitants in 1840 in the forty thous-
ands.

Iowa became the twenty-ninth state
of the union in 1846.

Among the thousands of immigrants
who flocked to Iowa immediately prior
to and after it had gained statehood
were Scandinavians to the central and
the western sections of the state, Hol-
landers to the south-central section,
Germans along the Mississippi, Scotch
and Welch to the mining towns of the
southern counties, and many Czechs to
the east-central section.

Iowa's 1950 population was 2,621,072,
which ranked her twenty-second among
the states. A smaller population in
1940 placed her twentieth among the
states.

Iowa City, Johnson County, was the
capital of Iowa until 1857 when it was
moved about 110 miles west to Des
Moines, Polk County.

The Division of Vital Statistics, State
Department of Health, State Office
Building, Des Moines 19, Iowa, has birth,
marriage and death records. More or
less incomplete birth records availa-
ble up to 1897, less complete to Janu-
ary 1918. Death records available in
some instances from 1880, and com-
plete from 1905. Marriage records availa-
ble since 1880.

The offices of the County Clerk also
have similar records of births, marriag-
es and deaths that have occured in their
respective counties. Some marriage rec-
ords on file since 1832 in some County
Clerk offices. They also have records of
all probate matters and wills. In these
offices are also divorce proceedings of
the cases handled in the respective
counties.

Federal Works Agency Work Projects
Administration, Division of Service Pro-
jects, Washington, D. C. has a guide to
Public Vital Statistics records in Iowa.

Naturalization information may be ob-
tained from the clerk of the United States
Circuit Court in Des Moines and Du-
buque, the Superior Courts of Council
Bluffs and Cedar Rapids, and the dis-
tric courts in the various county seats.

Real estate records are in the offices
of the county recorder, probate matters
and wills in the office of the county
clerk, taxpayers lists in the offices of
the county treasurer.

The first federal census was taken in
Iowa in 1840. Special state enumerations

IOWA

were taken in 1885, 1895, 1915 and 1925.
They are on file at the Department of
History and Archives, Historical Bldg.,
Des Moines, Iowa.

War service records of Iowa partic-
ipants in the Civil War, the Spanish-
American War, World War I, and mem-
bers of the National Guard from 1900
to date are in the office of the Adju-
tant General, State House, Des Moines,
Iowa.

Libraries: Cedar Rapids, (Linn), Public
Library, 428 Third Ave., S. E.; Davenport,
(Scott), Public Library, 321 Main St.;
Des Moines, (Polk), 100 Locust St.; Iowa
City, (Johnson), State Historical Society
of Iowa Library; Sioux City, (Wood-
bury), Public Library, 6 & Jackson Sts.;
Waterloo, (Black Hawk), 5th & Mulber-
ry St.

Among books dealing with historical and
genealogical information concerning Iowa are
the following:

Biographical History of Pottawattamie
County, Iowa. The Lewis Publishing Com-
pany, 1891. 172 pp.

Briggs, J. E., Iowa Old and New, Uni-
versity Publishing Company, 1939.

Brigham, Johnson, Iowa; Its History and
Its Foremost Citizens.

History o} Des Moines.

Cole, Cyrenus, Iowa; Through the Years.
Iowa Historical Society. 1940. (Accurate
historical account.)

CowLES, Florence Call, Early Algona,
The Story o/ Our Pioneers, 1854-1874. The
Register and Tribune Company, Des Moines,
Iowa, 1929. 221 pp.

Quick, Herbert. Hawkeye. Grosset, 1939.
(Iowa Hfe from 1857 to 1858.)

RiCHMAN, Irving Berdine, loway to
Iowa. Iowa State Historical Society, 1931.
Reliable history of early days in Iowa.

Shambaugh. Benjamin F. The First
Census o[ the Original Counties of Dubuque
and Demoine, Iowa, Taken in July 1836. The
Historical Department of Iowa, Des Moines,
Iowa. 1897. 93 pp.

Stong, Phillip Duffield. Hawkeyes; a
Biography o/ the State of Iowa. Dodd,
1940.

TuTTLE, Charles R. and Durrie, Dan-
iel 5. An Illustrated History of the State
o/ Iowa [com its Exploration down to 1875.
Richard S. Peale and Company, 1876. Bio-
graphical sketches in last fifty-five pages.

Works Projets Administration, Iowa:
A Guide to the Hawkeye State. Viking, 1938.
(American Guide Series)

Iowa County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Cen.sus
Reports

Available

Adair

1853

1860-80

Adams

1853

1860-80

Allamakee

1851

1850-80

Appanoose

1846

1850-80

Audubon

1855

1860-80

Benton

1846

1850-80

Black Hawk B3

1843

100

1850-80

Boone

1846

1850-80

Bremer

1851

1860-80

Buchanan

1848

1850-80

Buena Vista Al

1859

1860-80

Butler

1853

1860-80

Calhoun

1855

1860-80

Carroll

1854

1860-80

Cass

1853

1860-80

Cedar

1838

1840-80

Cerro Gordo A3

1855

1860-80

Cherokee

1857

1860-80

Chickasaw

1855

1860-80

Clarke

1850

1850-80

Clay

1858

1850-80

Clayton

1837

1840-80

Clinton

1839

1840-80

Crawford

1855

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Cass Greenfield

Taylor Corning

Clayton Waukon

Davis Centerville

Cass, Blackhawk Audubon

Indian Land Purchase Vinton

Delaware Waterloo

Polk Boone

Winnebago, Indian Reserve .... Waverly

Delaware Independence

Sac, Clay Storm Lake

Sioux Rapids

Buchanan, Black Hawk Allison

Formerly Fox County Rockwell City

Guthrie Carroll

Pottawattamie Atlantic

Wisconsin Territory Tipton

Floyd Mason City

Crawford Cherokee

Fayette New Hampton

Lucas Osceola

Indian Lands Spencer

Dubuque Elkader

Dubuque Clinton

Shelby Denison

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Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Dallas

1847

1850-80

Davis

1844

1850-80

Decatur

1850

1850-80

Delaware

1837

1840-80

Des Moines

1836

1840-80

Dickinson

1857

1860-80

Dubuque

1836

1840-80

Emmett

1859

1860-80

Fayette

1850

1850-80

Floyd

1854

1860-80

Franklin

1855

1860-80

Fremont

1850

1850-80

Greene

1854

1860-80

Grundy

1856

1860-80

Guthrie

1851

1860-80

Hamilton

1856

1860-80

Hancock

1857

1860-80

Hardin

1853

1860-80

Harrison

1853

1860-80

Henry

1836

1840-80

Howard

1855

1860-80

Humboldt

1857

1860-SO

Ida

1858

1860-80

Iowa

1847

1850-80

Jackson

1837

1840-80

Jasper

1845

1850-80

Jefferson

1839

1840-80

Johnson

1838

1840-80

Jones

1837

1840-80

Keokuk

1844

1850-80

Kossuth

1855

1860-80

Lee

1843

1840-80

Linn

1837

104

1840-80

Louisa

1837

1840-80

Lucas

1849

1850-80

Lyon

1872

1870-80

Madison

1850

1850-80

Mahaska

1844

1850-80

Marion

1845

1850-80

Marshall

1849

1850-80

Mills

1851

1860-80

Mitchell

1854

1860-80

Monona

1854

1860-80

Monroe

1845

1850-80

Montgomery CI

1851

1860-80

Muscatine

1837

1840-80

O'Brien

1860

1860-80

Osceola

1872

1870-80

Page

1850

1850-80

Palo Alto

1858

1860-80

Plymouth

1858

1869-80

Pocahontas

1859

1860-80

Polk

1836

226

1850-80

Pottawattamie 01 1848

1850-80

Poweshiek

1848

1850-80

Ringgold

1855

1860-80

Sac

1857

1860-80

Scott

1837

101

1840-80

Parent County County Seat

Polk Adel

Van Buren Bloomfield

Appanoose Leon

Dubuque Manchester

Wisconsin Territory Burlington

Kossuth Spirit Lake

Wisconsin Territory Dubuque

Kossuth, Dickinson Estherville

Clayton West Union

Chickasaw Charles City

Chickasaw Hampton

Pottawattamie Sidney

Dallas Jefferson

Black Hawk Grundy Center

Jackson Guthrie Center

Webster Webster City

Wright Garner

Black Hawk Eldora

Pottawattamie Logan

Wisconsin Territory Mount Pleasant

Chickasaw, Floyd Cresco

Webster Dakota City

Cherokee Ida Grove

Washington Marengo

From Wisconsin Maquoketa

Mahaska Newton

Indian Land Purchase Fairfield

Des Moines Iowa City

Wisconsin Territory Anamosa

Washington Sigourney

Webster Algcna

Des Moines Ft. Madison

Keokuk

Wisconsin Territory Cedar Rapids

Des Moines Wapello

Monroe Chariton

Woodbury Rock Rapids

Polk Winterset

Fox, Sac Indian Purchase Oskaloosa

Washington Knoxville

Jasper Marshalltown

Pottawattamie Glenwood

Chickasaw Osage

Harrison Onawa

Wapello Albia

Pope Red Oak

Des Moines Muscatine

Cherokee Primghar

Woodbury Sibley

Pottawattamie Clarinda

Kossuth Emmetsburg

Woodbury Le Mars

Humboldt, Greene Pocahontas

Indian Lands Des Moines

Indian Lands Council Bluffs

Musquaka Montezuma

Taylor Mount Ayr

Greene Sac City

Wisconsin Territory Davenport

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Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed By M

Available

Shelby

1853

1860-80

Sioux

1860

1860-80

Story

1853

1860-80

Tama

1852

1850-80

Taylor

1851

1850-80

Union

1855

1860-80

Van Buren

1836

1840-80

Wapello

1844

1850-80

Warren

1846

1850-80

Washington

1837

1840-80

Wayne

1850

1850-80

Webster

1852

1860-80

Winnebago

1857

1860-80

Winneshiek

1851

1850-80

Woodbury

1857

104

1860-80

Worth

1857

1860-80

Wright

1855

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Cass Harlan

Plymouth Orange City

Jasper, Polk, Boone Nevada

Boone, Benton Toledo

Page Bedford

Clarke Creston

Des Moines Keosauqua

Indian Lands Ottumwa

Polk Indianola

Wisconsin Territory Washington

Appanoose Corydon

*Yell, *Risley Fort Dodge

*Now known as Hamilton

Kossuth Forest City

Indian Lands Decorah

Indian Lands Sioux City

Mitchell Northwood

Webster Clarion

County Map of Iowa

Kansas

Capital, Topeka

Golc^-seeking Spaniards came from Kansas soil, they merely passed through
Mexico into the present Kansas area the area, leaving it nothing to remem-
in the mid-fifteen hundreds. Failing to ber them by.
appreciate the great value of the rich The real history of Kansas began

48 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

three hundred years later when western The Probate Judge of each county has

cattle barons recognized the importance records of marriages in his county be-

of its vast prairie lands as a feeding fore 1913.

ground for their immense herds of long- Records of divorces granted before

horn cattle. 1951 are on file in the office of the

Part of the Louisiana Purchase, be- clerk of the District Court handling the

came annexed to the United States in matter. Divorces granted after July

1803. It was included in the Missouri 1951 are filled in the office of the above

Territory until 1821. For 33 years it mentioned Division of Vital Statistics,

was known as an unorganized territory, The Naturalization files are kept in

inhabited mainly by Indians. For many the Topeka office of the United States

years there was constant trouble be- Circuit Court and the district court in

tween them and the settlers, until the each one of the counties in the state.

Indians were pushed gradually into the Probate matter and wills are handled

Oklahoma area. by the clerks of the district courts in

Fort Leavenworth became the first ^^^^ county,

community in the area in 1827. To Real estate property is listed with the

thousands en route to the valleys of county recorder and county assessor in

Utah, the gold fields of California or the county where land is located,

the beckoning Oregon country, it was The Census Bureau, Memorial Bldg.,

a welcome stop-over outfitting place. Topeka, Kansas, has charge of all cens-

Immediately after the designation of us records. The first Kansas federal cens-

Kansas as a Territory in 1854 with the us was taken in 1860.

privilege of the settlers to determine Libraries: Kansas City, (Wyandotte),

its status as a free or a slave state, Public Library, 6th & Minnesota Sts.;

there ensued a lively race between the Lawrence, (Douglas), University of

two opposing factions as to the future Kansas, (Kansas History) ; Topeka,

of the Territory. In 1859 so many set- (Shawnee), Kansas State Historical So-

tlers from the free northern states had ciety Library, Memorial Bldg. (History

moved into the Kansas Territory that and Genealogy); Wichita, (Sedgwick),

they outvoted their southern opponents. Public Library, 220 S. Main St., (Kansas

Kansas became a state in 1861, the history),
thirty-first. The population then was The Kansas State Historical LiiDrary
about 110,000, consisting mostly of in the Memorial Building, Topeka, Kan-
Southerners and New Englanders with sas, has more than 10,000 genealogical
a sprinkling from Missouri, Illinois, In- volumes, including magazines, vital re-
diana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Many Civil cords, war records, family and local
War veterans took up homesteads in histories. Copies of the Federal Census
Kansas following the war. Among the for 1860, 1870 and 1880 are also there,
foreign born settlers many came from together with the State Census records
Germany, Russia, Sweden, and England, from 1855 to 1925, inclusive, at ten
Many Mexicans also settled in the year periods,
state. Among books dealing with Kansas his-

The population of the state in the torical and genealogical information are

1950 census was 1,905,299, ranking thir- the following:

ty-first in the union. The city popula- Biographical History o[ Central Kansas.

tion accounts for 52.1 per cent; the The Lewis Publishing Company, New York

rural, 47.9 per cent. The largest cities and Chicago. 1902. Vol. I. 756 pp. Vol. II,

in Kansas are Wichita, 168, 279; Kansas 877 pp.

City, 129,553; Topeka, 78,791; Hutchin- Connelley, William Elsey. History of

son, 33, 575; Salina, 26,176. Kansas, State and People. American His-

Nineteen of the 105 Kansas counties torical Society, 1928. History and biogra-

were formed in 1855. phy.

Birth records since 1911, marriages Green, C. R. Us and Our Neighbors. A

since 1913, and death records since 1911 historical and genealogical directory of more

are obtainable at the office of Division than 3,200 men, women and children who

of Vital Statistics, State Department lived about Lyndon, Osage county, Kansas,

of Health, Topeka, Kansas. Most of the as revealed by the assessor's returns for

records are indexed. the years of 1896, 1897, and 1900. Compiled

The County Clerk in the county of oc- and published by C. R. Green, Lyndon,

curance of birth and death has records Kansas, June 1901. 299 pp.

of these events. Genealogical and Biographical Record of

KANSAS

North-eastern Kansas. The Lewis Publish-
ing Company, Chicago, 1900. 755 pp.

IsELY, Bliss, and Richards, W. M. Four
Centuries in Kansas .McCormick-Mathers
Co., Wichita, Kansas, 1936.

Works Projects Administration. Kan-
sas, a Guide to the Sunflower State. Viking,
1939. American Guide Series.

Among available autobiographies or bi-

ographies of important Kansans are the
following: Earl Browder, Walter P. Chrys-
ler, John Steuart Curry, Charles Curtis,
Amelia Earhart, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Frederick Fun-
ston, John James Ingalls, Hugh S. John-
son, Martin (Elmer) Johnson and Osa Helen
Leighty Johnson, Edgar Lee Masters, Car-
ry Amelia Moore Nation, Fred Andrew
Stone, and William Allen White.

Kansas County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Allen

1855

1860-80

Anderson

1855

1860-80

Atchison

1855

1860-80

Barber

1873

1880

Barton

1872

1870-80

Bourbon

1855

1860-80

Brown

1855

1860-80

Butler

1855

1860-80

Chase

1859

1860-80

Chautauqua B4

1875

1880

Cherokee

1873

1870-80

Cheyenne

1875

1880

Clark

1873

1880

Clay

1856

1860-80

Cloud

1860

1870-80

Coffey *

1875

1860-80

Comanche

1875

1880

Cowley

1867

1870-80

Crawford

1867

1870-80

Davis

1876

Decatur

1873

1880

Dickinson

1855

1860-80

Doniphan

1855

1860-80

Douglas

1855

1860-80

Edwards

1875

1880

Elk

1875

1880

Ellis

1865

1870-80

Ellsworth

1867

1870-80

Finney

1884

Ford

1873

1880

Franklin

1856

1860-80

Geary

1889

Gove

1880

Graham

1881

Grant

1887

Gray

1887

Greeley

1887

Greenwood

1855

1860-80

Hamilton

1878

Harper

1879

Harvey

1872

1880

Haskell

1887

Hodgeman

1879

Jackson

1855

1860-80

Jefferson

1855

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Original county lola

Original county Garnett

Original county Atchison

Harper Medicine Lodge

Ellsworth Great Bend

Original county Fort Scott

Original county Hiawatha

Original county El Dorado

Butler Cottonwood Falls

Howard Sedan

Unorganized Territory Columbus

Kirwin Land District Saint Francis

Ford Ashland

Original county Clay Center

Formerly Shirley County Concordia

Kiowa Burlington

Kiowa Coldwater

Formerly Hunter Winfield

Bourbon Girard

Riley — See Geary, Junction City

Norton Oberlin

Original county Abilene

Original county Troy

Original county Lawrence

Howard Kinsley

Howard Howard

Unorganized Territory Hays

Saline Ellsworth

Arapahoe, Foote Garden City

Unorganized Territory Dodge City

Original county Ottawa

Davis Co. 1875 to 1888 .... Junction City

Unorganized Territory Gove

Rooks Hill City

Finney, Kearney Ulysses

Finney, Ford Cimmarron

Wichita Tribune

Original county Eureka

Unorganized Territory Syracuse

Kingman Anthony

McPherson, Sedgwick Newton

Finney Sublette

Indian Lands (Est. 1868) Jetmore

Calhoun Holton

Original county Oskaloosa

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Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Repoi ts

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Jewell

1870

1870-80

Johnson

1855

1860-80

Kearny

1887

Kingman

1874

1880

Kiowa

1886

Parent County County Seat

Mitchell Mankato

Original county Olathe

Finney Lakin

Unorganized Territory Kingman

Comanche, Edwards Greensburg

KANSAS

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Labette

1867

1870-80

Lane

1877

Leavenworth A2

1855

1860-80

Lincoln

1870

1870-80

Linn

1855

1860-80

Logan

1881

Lyon

1862

1870-80

McPherson

1870

1870-80

Madison

1860

Marion

1860

1860-80

Marshall

1855

1860-80

Meade

1873

1880

Miami

1855

1870-80

Mitchell

1870

1870-80

Montgomerj

rB4

1869

1870-80

Morris

1858

1860-80

Morton

1881

1870-80

Nemaha

1855

1860-80

Neosho

1866

1870-80

Ness

1873

1880

Norton

1872

1880

Osage

1864

1860-80

Osborne

1871

1870-80

Ottawa

1866

1870-80

Pawnee

1872

1880

Phillips

1872

1880

Pottawatomie B2

1857

1860-80

Pratt

1879

1880

Rawlins

1873

1880

Reno

1881

Republic

1868

1870-80

Rice

1871

1870-80

Riley

1871

1860-80

Rooks

1872

1880

Rush

1874

1880

Russell

1872

1870-80

Saline

1855

1870-80

Scott

1873

1880

Sedgwick

1872

222

1870-80

Seward

1873

1880

Shawnee

1855

105

1860-80

Sheridan

1880

Sherman

1873

1880

Smith

1872

1880

Stafford

1870

1880

Stanton

1887

Stevens

1887

Sumner

1871

1870-80

Thomas

1873

1880

Trego

1879

Wabaunsee

1871

1860-80

Wallace

1865

1870-80

Washington CI

1856

1860-80

Wichita

1873

Wilson

1855

1860-80

Woodson

1855

1860-80

Wyandotte

1856

165

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Neosho Oswego

Finney Dighton

Original county Leavenworth

Ellsworth Lincoln

Original county Mound City

Formerly Wallace Russell Springs

Madison Emporia

name changed from Breckenridge

Unorganized Territory McPherson

Divided to other counties.

Chase Marion

Original county Marysville

Unorganized Territory Meade

Formerly Lykins Paola

Kirwin Land District Beloit

Labette Independence

Madison Council Grove

Stanton Richfield

Original county Seneca

Labette Erie

Hodgeman Ness City

Unorganized Territory Norton

Formerly Weller Lyndon

Mitchell Osborne

Saline Minneapolis

Rush, Stafford Larned

Kirwin Land District Phillipsburg

Indian Lands Westmoreland

Stafford Pratt

Kirwin Land District Atwood

Secigwick Hutchinson

Washington, Cloud Belleville

Reno Lyons

Wabaunsee Manhattan

Kirwin Land District Stockton

Unorganized Territory La Crosse

Ellsworth Russell

Original county Salina

Finney Scott City

Butler Wichita

Indian Lands Liberal

Original county Topeka

Unorganized Territory Hoxie

Kirwin Land District Goodland

Unorganized Territory Smith Center

Unorganized Territory Saint John

Reorganized Johnson

Indian Lands Hugoton

Cowley Wellington

Kirwin Land District Colby

Ellis Wakeeney

Riley, Morris Alma

Indian Lands Sharon Springs

Original county Washington

Indian Lands Leoti

Original county Fredonia

Original county Yates Center

Original county Kansas City

First formed in 1856.

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U. S. Census records of the following discontinued Kansas counties are also avail-
able as indicated: Arapahoe 1860, includes much of the present state of Colorado;
Breckenridge, 1860; Davis, 1860, 1870; Dorn, 1860; Godfrey; 1860; Howard, 1870;
Hunter, 1860; Lykins, 1860; McGhee, 1860; Madison, 1860, and Otoe, 1860.

Kentucky

Capital, Frankfort

The settling of Kentucky from the By 1900 those nine 1790 counties had

mid-seventeen-hundreds to the early been subdivided into the following pres-

parts of the eighteen-hundreds included ent counties:

some of the most hazardous and bloody Mason: The east six-seventh of Pike,

events of America. Several thousand Floyd, Martin, Johnson; the east half

of those early settlers lost their lives of each of Magoffin and Morgan; Law-

in skirmishes with Indians, determined rence, Elliott, Rowan, Carter, Boyd,

to protect their hunting grounds from Greenup, Lewis, Fleming, Mason, Rob-

the encroachments of the white man. ertson. Bracken, Campbell, and the east

Long before any white man had ex- third of Pendleton,

plored the entire Kentucky area, it was Bourbon: East four-fifths of Harlan,

claimed by Virginia as part of her Au- Letcher, west one-seventh of Pike, Knott,

gusta County. It was included in the Perry, east half of Leslie, Breathitt, west

Virginia County of 1584. half of each of Magoffin and Morgan,

Daniel Boone, born in Pennsylvania Wolfe, north half of each of Lee and
of English parents, moved his family in Estill, Powell, Menifee. Bath, Mont-
September 1773 into the Kentucky area gomery, east half of Clark, Bourbon,
from Rowan County, North Carolina, Nicholas, east three-fourths of Har-
on the Yadkin River. However, he had rison, and triangular shaped south one-
previously explored that section some fifth of Pendleton.

seven years earlier. Neither was Boone Woodford: Woodford, Scott, east half

the first to investigate the possibilities of Franklin, Owen, Grant. Boone, Gal-

of Kentucky. The eastern section of lalin and east half of Carroll,

the area was explored by Dr. Thomas Fayette: Fayette, Jessamine and west

Walker as early as 1750. Twenty-five half of Clark.

years later the Transylvania Company Madison: Madison, east half of Gar-
was organized under the leadership of rard, south half of Estill, Jackson, north-
Col. Richard Henderson of North Caro- east third of Rockcastle, Owsley, south
lina. From Indian tribes he purchased half Lee, Clay, west half of Leslie, and
almost half of what is now the state west one-fifth of Harlan,
of Kentucky, all of the land between Jefferson: North half of each of Spenc-
the Kentucky River, in the central part er and Bullit, Jefferson, Shelby, Oldham,
of the state, and the Cumberland River, Henry, North-west corner of Ander-
in the extreme western part. A mul- son, Trimble, and west half of Carroll,
tiplicity of law suits and the Revolu- Mercer: Triangular south third Frank-
tionary War completed the activities of lin, east half of Anderson, Mercer, north
the Henderson enterprise in a dismal two-thirds of Boyle, and northwest third
failure. of Garrard.

Previous to these explorations all of Nelson: Washington, Marion, Taylor,
Kentucky had been made part of Fin- north half of each of Green, Hart, Ed-
castle County, Virginia. During Boone's monson, Butler, and McLean; Ohio,
activities in the section, Kentucky was Davies, Hancock, Breckinridge, Meade,
designated as Kentucky County, Vir- Hardin, south half of each of Bullitt
ginia. This designation was made in and Spencer; Nelson, Larue, and Gray-
December, 1776. In 1780 it was divided son.

into three counties, Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln: Henderson, Webster, Hop-

and Lincoln. In 1790 those three coun- kins, south half of McLean; Muhlen-

ties were subdivided into nine counties, berg; south half of Butler; Warren, south

Mason, Bourbon, Woodford, Fayette, half of each of Edmonson, Hart and

Madison, Jefferson, Mercer, Nelson, and Green, Adair, Casey, Lincoln, west of

Lincoln. Garrard, southwest two-thirds of Rock-

KENTUCKY 53

castle; Laurel, south one-third of Boyle, Kentucky population had exceeded the
Knox, Bell, Whitley, Pulaski, Wayne, million mark, by 1900 the two million,
Russell, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalf, and by 1950 it was close to the three mil-
Monroe, Barren, Allen, Simpson, Logan, lion.

Todd, Christian, Trigg, Caldwell, Lyon, Division of Vital Records, State Depart-

Marshall Callowoy, Graves, Fulton, Hick- nient of Health, 620 South Third Street,

man, Carlisle, Ballard, McCracken, Liv- Louisville 2, Ky., has birth and death

ingston, Crittenden, and Union. records from the beginning of 1911. The

The extreme western tip of Kentucky, City Health Department in some of the

surrounded on three sides by water — the larger cities have still earlier records,

Mississippi River on the west, the Ohio Records of births and deaths from some

and the Tennessee Rivers on the north, counties as early as 1851 are in the li-

and the Kentucky Reservoir on the brary of the Kentucky Historical Society,

east, is sometimes referred to as the Frankfort, Ky.

Jackson Purchase Region from the fact County Clerk of county where trans-

that is was purchased in 1818 from the action was completed has wills, pro-

Chickasaw Indians during the presi- bate, marriage and divorce records,

dency of Andrew Jackson. It includes Naturalization records are filed in

the following eight counties, sometimes the district courts in Bowling Green,

included in the old Lincoln county: Catlettsburg, Covington, Frankfort, Lon-

Calloway, Marshall, McCracken, Graves, don, Louisville, Owensboro, and Paducah.

Fulton, Hickman. Carlisle, and Ballard. They may also be obtained in the office

The descriptions of the Kentucky of the clerk of the Circuit Court in
counties carved out of the nine counties the various county seats in the state,
existing in 1790 given in earlier para- Quite complete records of births, mar-
graphs follow the Kentucky map printed riages, deaths, wills, etc., on file on
in "A Century of Population Growth microfilms and written and printed rec-
— 1790-1900" by the Bureau of Census, ords at the Genealogical Society of
Washington 25, D. C. In several instanc- Utah, 80 North Main Street, Salt Lake
es these descriptions do not harmonize City, Utah. Also the complete 1810
with those on a map arranged by Bayless census.

Hardin of Kentucky State Historical So- Mimeographed copies of the 1810

ciety and published in Heineman and Census by counties, and vital statistics

Brumbaugh's "First Census of Kentucky, by counties, may be obtained from Mrs.

1790" (Kentucky Taxpayers of the Time.) Anne Walker Burns, P.O. Box 6183

This map is printed on page 45 of the Apex Station, Washington, D. C.

1953 Handy Book. Those interested may The federal census records for 1790

compare the two maps in question. and 1800 are missing, but the so called

On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became "First Census of Kentucky", supplies a

the fifteenth state admitted into the list of taxpayers of those years,

union. Libraries: Bowling Green (Warren),

It took courageous men and women Western Kentucky State College Library,
to make their homes in a country as (Southern and Western History); Cov-
full of danger and excitement as existed ington, (Kenton), Public Library, Scott
in Kentucky in its early days. They & Robbins Sts. ; Frankfort, (Franklin),
came mostly, to begin with, from Mary- Kentucky Historical Society Library, Old
lan^, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, State House; Lexington, (Fayette), Pub-
Tennessee, and Virginia. Originally they lie Library, 2nd & Market Sts. (old news-
were of German, English , Irish and papers); University of Kentucky Library,
Scottish descent. As new territories, new (historical manuscripts) ; Filson Club
states were carved from the large Library, 118 W. Breckenridge St., (Ky.
American expanse, many of them were and Ohio Valley collections); Free Pub-
settled by the descendants of the or- lie Library, 301-333 Library Place,
iginal Kentuckians. With the increased (Southern lore).

European migration many people have Among books dealing with Kentucky

also come to Kentucky from Russia, history and genealogy are the following:

Italy, Poland and Austria. Ardery, Mrs. Wm. Breckenridge. Ken-

The growth of Kentucky over the tacky Records — Early Wills and Mar-

years is indicated by these U. S. Census riages. The Keystone Printery, Lexington,

figures: 1790 — 73,677; 1800 — 220,955; Ky., Vol I, 206 pp. 1926; Vol. II. 1932.

1810 — 406,511; 1820 — 563,317; 1830 — Biggs, Nina Mitchell and Mackoy,

687,917; 1840 — 779,828. By 1850 the Mabel Lee. History o/ Greenup County,

54 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Ky. The Franklin Press. Louisville, Ky.. Ky. 1920. 176 pp.

1951. 345 pp. JiLLSON, WiLLARD RousE. The Kenfucktj

/Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky Land Grants, 1782-1924. The Standard Print-

o/ the Dead and Living Men o[ the Nine- ing Company, Inc., Louisville, Ky., 1925.

teenth Century. O. J. Armstrong Com- 1.844 pp.

pany. 1873. Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds. The

Burns, Annie Walker, P. O. Box 6183. Standard Printing Company. Inc.. Louis-
Washington, D. C. Kentucky Genealogies ville. Ky.. 1926. 571 pp. State land office
and Historical Recorder. Eleven mimeo- records,
graphed volumes. McAdams, Mrs. Harry Kennett. /Cen-

Abstracts of Pension Records from most tucky Pioneer and Court Records. Abstracts
of the Kentucky counties. of early wills, deeds and marriages from An-

Cherry, Thomas C, and Stickles, derson, Bourbon. Boyle. Clark. Estill, Fay-
Arndt M. Story o[ Kentucky. Heath, 1940. ette, Garrard. Harrison, Jassamine, Lincoln.

Clark, Thomas Dionysius, and Kirk- Madison. Mercer, Montgomery. Nicholas.
PATRICK, Lee. Exploring Kentucky. Ameri- and Woodford counties. The Keystone
can Book Co., 1939. Printery. Lexington. Ky. 1929. 382 pp. In-

Clift, G. Glenn. History o/ Maysville dexed.
and Mason County. Transylvania Printing McGhee, Lucy Kate, Box 7213. Wash-
Company, Inc., Lexington, Ky., 1936. Vol ington, D. C. Historical Records of Old Crab
I 461 pp. Orchard, Lincoln.. Ky. 117 pp.

"Second Census" o/ Kentucky, 1800. Pension Abstracts o[ Maryland Soldiers
Frankfort. Ky.. 1954. 333 pp. A privately o/ the Reveloution, War of 1812, and In-
compiled list of taxpayers in the forty-two dian Wars Who Settled in Kentucky. Vol. I.
counties of Kentucky of 1800. 76 pp. Vol. II. 90 pp.

Collins, Lewis {\797-\870) .History of Scott, Hattie Marshall. Kentucky Court
Kentucky. and Other Records. Records from Bourbon.

Collins, Richard H. History of Ken- Nicholas. Estill, Fayette. Gallatin. Green,
tucky. 1924. Harrison, Scott, and Woodford counties and

Darnell, Ermina Jett. Forks of Elk- other miscellaneous items. The Kentucky
horn Church. The Standard Printing Co., Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky.. 1953.
Inc., Louisville. Ky.. 1946. 322 pp. 251 pp. Excellent index.

Daughters of Colonial Wars, Kentucky Thompson, Ed Porter. History of the
Society, Kentucky Pioneers and Their Orphan Brigade. Information on about 5.675
Descendants. Roberts Printing Company, particpiants in the Civil War. Lewis N.
Frankfort. Ky.. 1950, 460 pp. Thompson. Louisville, Ky.. 1898. 1.104 pp.

Green, Thomas Marshall. Historic Excellent index.
Families of Kentucky. Robert Clarke and Tibbals, Alma Owens. History of Pulaski
Company. Cincinnati. 1889. 304 pp. County, Kentucky. The Franklin Press,

Hall, Mitchell, Johnson County, Ken- Louisville, Ky., 1952. 272 pp. Fine index.
tucky. The Standard Press. Louisville. Ky.. Van Meter, Benjamin F. Genealogies
1928. Vol I, History and Genealogy. 552 and Sketches of Some Old Families. (Vir-
pp. Vol. II Genealogy. 708 pp. ginia and Kentucky^ John P. Morton and

Heinemann, Charles Brink. First Census Company. Louisville. Ky., 1901. 183 pp.
of Kentucky, 1790. A privately compiled Wells, J. W. History of Cumberland
list of taxpayers appearing in the tax lists County, Kentucky. The Standard Printing
of Kentucky counties established at time of Company. Louisville. Ky.. 1947. 480 pp;.
First Census. Southern Book Company. St. Wood, Edith. Middletowns Days and
James Hotel. Charles Street at Center, Deeds. (Jefferson County) 1946. 281 pp.
Baltimore 1. Maryland. 1956. 118pp. Works Projects Administration. Ken-

Jennings, Kathleen. Louisville's First tucky. (American Guide Series) Check List
Families. A series of genealogical sketches, of Historical Records Survey Publications.
The Standard Printing Company, Louisville. 1940.

Kentucky County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census!

Census
M^p Date Pop. Reports „

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County i>eat

Adair C2 1801 18 1810-80 Green Columbia

Allen D3 1815 14 1820-80 Barren, Warren Scottsville

KENTUCKY

Name

Anderson

Ballard

Barren

Bath

Bell

Boone

Bourbon

Boyd

Boyle

Bracken

Breathitt

Map
Index

Date
Formed

C2 1827

Census
Pop. Reports

By M Availal:)k

9 1830-80

F3
D3
B2
B3
CI
B2
Al
C2
Bl
B2

Breckinridge Dl

BuUitt

Butler

Caldwell

Calloway

Campbell

C2
D3
E3
E3
Bl

F3
CI
Al
C2
E3
B2
B2
C3

Carlisle

Carroll

Carter

Casey

Christian

Clark

Clay

Clinton

Crittenden E2

Cumberland C3

Daviess Dl

Edmonson

Elliott

Estill

Fayette

Fleming

Floyd

D3
A2
B2
B2
Bl
A2

Franklin

Fulton

Gallatin

Garrard

Grant

Graves

Grayson

Green

Greenup

Hancock

Hardin

Harlan

Harrison

Hart

C2
F3
CI
B2
CI
F3
Dl
C2
Al
Dl
Dl
B3
Bl
Dl

Henderson E2

Henry CI

Hickman F3

Hopkins E2

Jackson B2

1842
1798
1811
1867
1798
1785
1860
1842
1796
1839
1799
1796
1810
1809
1822
1749

1886
1838
1838
1806
1792
1792
1806
1835
1842
1796
1815
1825
1869
1808

1794
1845
1798
1796
1820
1823
1810
1792
1803
1829
1792
1819
1793
1819

9
28
10
48
13
18
50
21

8
20
16
11
11
13
20
76

6
9
23
17
42
19
23
11
11
9

1780 101

1798 12

1799 54

14
4
11
10
31
17
11
25
6
50
72
14
15

31
11

1798
1798
1821 8
1808 39
1858 13

1850-80

1810-80

1820-80

1880

1810-80

1860-80

1850-80

1810-80

1840-80

1810-80

1830-80

1810-80

1840-80
1840-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1840-80
1850-80
1810-80
1820-80
1830-80
1870-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80

1810-80
1850-80
1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1830-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1830-80
1810-80
1820-80
1810-80
1820-80

1810-80
1810-80
1830-80
1810-80
1860-80

Jeffei;son C2 1780 485 1810-80

Parent County County Seat

Franklin, Mercer,

Washington Lawrenceburg

Hickman, McCracken Wickliffe

Green, Warren Glasgow

Montgomery Owingsville

Knox, Harlan Pineville

Campbell Burlington

Fayette Paris

Carter, Lawrence, Greenup .. Catlattsburg

Mercer, Lincoln Danville

Campbell, Mason Brooksville

Clay, Estill, Perry Jackson

Hardin Hardinsburg

Jefferson, Nelson Sheperdsville

Logan, Ohio Morgantown

Livingstone Princeton

Hickman Murray

Harrison, Mason, Scott Alexandria

Newport

Graves, Ballard Bardwell

Gallatin Carrollton

Greenup, Lawrence Grayson

Lincoln Liberty

Logan Hopkinsville

Bourbon, Fayette Winchester

Madison, Floyd, Knox Manchester

Wayne, Cumberland Albany

Livingston Marion

Green Burkesville

Ohio Owensboro

Grayson, Hart, Warren Brownsville

Carter, Lawrence, Morgan .... Sandy Hook

Clark, Madison Irvine

Kentcky Lexington

Mason Flemingsburg

Fleming, Mason,

Montgomery Prestonburg

Woodford, Mercer, Shelby Frankfort

Hickman Hickman

Franklin, Shelby Warsaw

Madison, Lincoln, Mercer Lancaster

Pendleton Williamstown

Hickman Mayfield

Hardin, Ohio Leitchfield

Lincoln, Nelson Greensburg

Mason Greenup

Daviess, Ohio, Breckinridge .... Hawesville

Nelson Elizabelhtown

Floyd, Knox Harlan

Bourbon, Scott Cynthiana

Hardin, Barrne,

possibly Green Mumfordville

Christian Henderson

Shelby New Castle

Caldwell, Livingston Clinton

Henderson Madisonville

Rockcastle, Owsley, Madison,

Clay, Estill, Laurel McKee

Kentucky Louisville

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Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Jessamine

1798

1810-80

Johnson

1843

1850-80

Kenton

1840

104

1840-80

Knott

1884

Knox

1799

1810-80

Larue

1843

1850-80

Laurel

1825

1830-80

Lawrence

1821

1830-80

Lee

1870

1870-80

Leslie

1878

1880

Letcher

1842

1850-80

Lewis

1806

1810-80

Lincoln

1780

1810-80

Livingstone

1798

1810-80

Logan

1792

1810-80

Lyon

1854

1860-80

McCracken

1824

1830-08

McCreary

1912

McLean

1854

1860-80

Madison

1785

1810-80

Magoffin

1860

1860-80

Marion

1834

1840-80

Marshall

1842

1850-80

Martin

1870

1880

Mason

1788

1810-80

Meade

1823

1830-80

Menifee

1869

1870-80

Mercer

1785

1810-80

Metcalfe

1860

1860-80

Monroe

1820

1820-80

Montgomery B2

1796

1810-80

Morgan

1822

1830-80

Muhlenberg D3

1798

1810-80

Nelson

1784

1810-80

Nicholas

1799

1810-80

Ohio

1819

1810-80

Oldham

1823

1830-80

Owen

1819

1820-80

Owsley

1843

1850-80

Pendleton

1798

1810-80

Perry

1820

1830-80

Pike

1821

1830-80

Powell

1852

1860-80

Pulaski

1798

1810-80

Robertson

1867

1870-80

Rockcastle

1810

1810-80

Rowan

1856

1860-80

Russell

1825

1830-80

Scott

1792

1810-80

Shelby

1792

1810-80

Parent County County Seat

Fayette Nicholasville

Floyd, Morgan, Lawrence Paintsville

Campbell Covington

Independence
Perry, Breathitt, Floyd,

Letcher Hindman

Lincoln Barbourville

Hardin Hodgenville

Whitley, Clay, Knox,

Rockcastle London

Floyd, Greenup Louisa

Owsley, Breathitt, Wolfe,

Estill Beattyville

Clay, Harlan, Perry Hyden

Perry, Harlan Whitesburg

Mason Vanceburg

Kentucky Co., Va Stanford

Christian Smithland

Lincoln Russellville

Caldwell Eddyville

Hickman Paducah

Wayne, Pulaski, Whitley .... Whitley City

Muhlenberg, Daviess, Ohio Calhoun

Lincoln Richmond

Floyd, Johnson, Morgan Salyersville

Washington Lebanon

Callaway Benton

Lawrence, Floyd, Pike,

Johnson Inez

Bourbon Maysville

Hardin, Breckinridge Brandenburg

Powell, Wolfe, Bath.

Morgan, Montgomery Frenchburg

Lincoln Harrodsburg

Monroe, Adair, Barren,

Cumberland, Green Edmonton

Barren, Cumberland Tompkinsville

Clark Mount Sterling

Floyd, Bath West Liberty

Christian, Logan Greenville

Jefferson Bardstown

Bourbon, Mason Carlisle

Hardin Hartford

Henry, Shelby, Jefferson LaGrange

Scott, Franklin, Gallatin Owenton

Clay, Estill, Breathitt Booneville

Bracken, Campbell Falmouth

Clay ,Floyd Hazard

Floyd Pikeville

Clark, Estill, Montgomery Stanton

Green, Lincoln Somerset

Nicholas, Bracken, Mason,

Fleming, Harrison Mt. Olivet

Pulaski, Lincoln, Knox,

Madison Mount Vernon

Fleming, Morgan Morehead

Cumberland, Adair, Wayne - Jamestown

Woodford Georgetown

Jefferson Shelbyville

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Simpson D3 1819 12 1820-80 Allen, Logan, Warren Franklin

Spencer C2 1824 6 1830-80 Shelby, Bullitt, Nelson Taylorsville

Taylor C2 1848 14 1850-80 Green Campbellsville

Todd D3 1819 13 1820-80 Christian, Logan Elkton

Trigg E3 1820 10 1820-80 Christian, Caldwell Cadiz

Trimble CI 1836 5 1840-80 Henry, Oldham, Gallatin Bedford

Union E2 1811 15 1820-80 Henderson Morganfield

Warren D3 1796 3 1810-80 Logan Bowling Green

Washington C2 1792 13 1810-80 Nelson Springfield

Wayne C3 1800 16 1810-80 Pulaski, Cumberland Monticello

Webster E2 1860 16 1860-80 Hopkins, Union, Henderson Dixon

Whitley B3 1818 32 1820-80 Knox Williamsburg

Wolfe B2 1860 8 1870-80 Owsley, Breathitt, Powell,

Morgan Campton

Woodford C2 1788 11 1810-80 Fayette Versailles

U.S. Census note: The Kentucky census figures for 1790 and 1800 are missing.

Louisiana

Capital, Baton Rogue

Ownership of the Louisiana sector for
the first 250 or 300 years of its discov-
ery zig-zagged between France and
Spain, until it was sold to the United
States as part of the Louisiana Purchase
in 1803. Some of the quaint customs
of the early French settlers have been
perpetuated over the years and gives
the state an atmosphere of antiquity.

Every school boy and girl remember
with nostolgic feelings Longfellow's
"Evangeline," the poetic story of the
transfer of large groups of French set-
tlers from Nova Scotia to Louisiana.
Many descendants of these Acadians
still live in Louisiana where they are
known as Cajuns.

Rather than to fight against the Mo-
ther Country during the Revolutionary
War, many loyal Britons moved their
families at that time from the Atlantic
states to Louisiana where they have
perpetuated themselves.

On Oct. 1, 1804 Louisiana was divided
into two parts by Congressional action.
The upper portion was given the name
'District of Louisiana" and the lower
portion "Territory of Orleans". Im-
mediately after the formation of the
Territory of Orleans, large numbers of
Americans from south of the Ohio mov-
ed into the new acquisition. In 1805
Louisiana was divided into 12 counties
and in 1807 the Orleans Territory was
partitioned into 19 parishes.

Louisiana became the eighteenth

state in the union, when it was admit-
ted on April 8, 1812.

Among some of the French customs still
persisting in Louisiana is the designation
of the counties as parishes. There is
nothing different between a Lousiana
parish and a county in any other state
than the name. Otherwise everything is
the same. Most Louisianans will forgive
you should you inadvertently call Caddo
Parish Caddo County.

Louisiana ranks twenty-first among
the states, with its 2,683,516 inhabi-
tants, 54.8 per cent of whom live in the
cities and 45.2 per cent in the country.
Some of its leading cities are New Or-
leans with a population of 570,445;
Shreveport, 127,206; Baton Rogue
125,629; Lake Charles, 41,272; Monroe,
38,572; Alexandria, 34,913.

The 1810 U. S. Census sets the pop-
ulation of the state at 76,556. Each
new census has seen a larger population
figure for Louisiana. The largest num-
erical growth was between 1900 and
1910 when the population increased
about 338,000, followed closely by the
growth between 1940 and 1950, about
320,000.

For information regarding wills, deeds
and marriages write the clerk of the re-
spective parishes.

The State Registrar, Bureau of Vital
Statistics, State Dept. of Health, Civil
Courts Bldg., New Orleans 7, La., has
records of births since 1914, some .since

LOUISIANA

1870, and deaths since 1914, some since
1899. The Bureau of Vital Statistics.
City Health Dept. of New Orleans, 507
Carondelet Street, has some birth, death
and marriage records as far back as
1790.

Among available books dealing with
Louisiana are the following:

Arthur, Stanley C, Old New Orleans.
A History of the Vieux Carre, its Ancienl
and Historical Buildings. 246 pp. New Or-
leans, 1936.

Baptismal, Marriage and Death Records
of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, New
Orleans. 1849-1900. Obtained at Southern
Book Company, Baltimore, Md.

Curtis, Nathaniel C. New Orleans, Itc
Old Houses, Shops and Public Buildings.
267 pp. Philadelphia 1933.

Deiler, J. Hanno, The Settlement of the
German Coast ol Louisiana and the Creoles
of German Descent. 136 pp. Philadelphia,
1909.

Guide to Public Vital Statistics Records
in Louisiana.

Guide to Vital Statistics Records of
Church Archives in Louisiana: Vol. L
Protestant and Jewish Churches; Vol. II,
Roman Catholic Churches.

King, Grace. New Orleans, The Place
and the People. 402 pp. New York 1922.

Saxon, Lyle. Old Louisiana. 388 pp. New
York, 1941.

Louisiana Libraries — Alexandria,
(Rapides), Rapides Parish Library, P.O.
Box 1032; Baton Rouge, (Baton Rouge).
East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library.
700 Laurel St.; Louisiana State Univer-
sity, Hill Memorial Library, (Lower
Mississippi Valley history) ; New Orleans
(Orleans Parish), Public Library, 1031
St. Charles Ave.; Tulane University, How-
ard-Tilton Memorial Library, Audubon
Place at Freret St. (Southern lore and
archives); Shreveport, (Caddo), Shrove
Memorial Public Library, 400 Edwards
St.

Map

Name

Index

Acadia

Allen

Ascension

Assumption

Avoyelles

Beauregard

Bienville

Bossier

Caddo

Calcasieu

Caldwell

Cameron

Catahoula

Claiborne

Concordia

De Soto

East Baton

Rouge

East Carroll

East

Feliciana

Evangeline

Franklin

Grant

Iberia

Iberville

Jackson

Jefferson

Davis

Louisiana Parish Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Cen.sus

Date Pop. Reports

Formed By M Available Parent Parish Parish Seat

1826 7 Calcasieu Crowley

1913 19 Calcasieu Oberlin

1802 22 1810-80 St. James Donaldsville

1786 17 1810-80 Original Parish Napoleonville

1736 38 1810-80 Original Parish Marksville

Reorg. 1873

1913 18 Calcasieu DeRidder

1848 19 1850-80 Natchitoches Arcadia

1843 40 1850-80 Natchitoches Benton

1838 177 1840-80 Natchitoches Shreveport

1810 90 1840-80 St. Landry Lake Charles

1838 10 1840-80 Catahoula Columbia

1870 6 1870-80 Calcasieu, Vermillion Cameron

1808 12 1810-80 Harrisonburg

1828 25 1830-80 Homer

1807 14 1810-80 Catahoula, Avoyelles Vidalia

1843 24 1850-80 Natchitoches Mansfield

1763 158 1820-80 Original Parish Baton Rouge

1877 16 1880 Carroll Lake Providence

1824 19 1830-80 Seceded from Feliviana Clinton

1911 32 St. Landry Ville Platte

1843 29 1850-80 Catahoula Winnsbora

1869 14 1870-80 Rapsides, Winn Colfax

1868 40 1870-80 St. Martin, St. Mary New Iberia

1807 27 1810-80 Assumption, Ascension Plaquemine

1823 15 1850-80 Winn Jonesboro

1825 104 1830-80 Orleans Gretna

1913 26 Calcasieu Jennings

60 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Parent Parish Parish Seat

Attarapas (New Rapides)

St. Landry Lafayette

St. James, St. John,

St. Charles Thibodaux

Catahoula Jena

Bienville, Jackson, Union Ruston

Baton Rouge, Ascension Livingston

Tensas Tallulah

Ouachita Bastrop

Original Parish Natchitoches

Original Parish New Orleans

Catahoula Monroe

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Lafayette

1823

1830-80

Lafourche

1807

1810-80

LaSalle

1910

Lincoln

1873

1880

Livingston

1832

1840-80

Madison

1848

1840-80

Morehouse

1844

1850-80

Natchitoches D2

1863

1810-80

Orleans

1718

570

1810-80

Ouachita

1807

1810-80

LOUISIANA

Census

Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available

Plaquemines A4 1807 14 1810-80 Orleans Pointe a la Hache

Point

Coupee C3 1807 22 1810-80 Feliciana. Avoyelles New Roads

Rapides D2 1763 91 1810-80 Original Parish Alexandria

Red River E2 1871 12 Caddo, Bossier, Bienville Coushatta

Richland CI 1868 27 1870-80 Ouachita Rayville

Sabine E2 1843 21 1850-80 Natchitoches Many

St. Bernard A4 11 1810-80 Orleans St. Bernard

St. Charles B4 1785 13 1810-80 Original Parish Hahnville

St. Helena B3 1845 9 1820-80 Livingston Greensburg

St. James C4 1785 15 1810-80 Original Parish Convent

St. John the

Baptist B3 1807 15 1810-80 Original Parish Edgard

St. Landry C3 1807 78 1820-80 Avoylles, Rapides Opelousas

St. Martin C3 1811 26 1810-80 St. Martinville

St. Mary C4 1811 36 1820-80 Assumption Franklin

St.

Tammany B3 1811 27 1820-80 Orleans Covington

Tangipahoa B3 1869 53 1870-80 Livingston, St. Tammany Amite

Tensas C2 1843 13 1850-80 Concordia St. Joseph

Terrebonne B4 1822 43 1830-80 La Fourche Houma

Union Dl 1838 19 1840-80 Ouachita Farmerville

Vermilion D4 1844 37 1850-80 Abbeville

Vernon D2 1871 19 1880 Natchitoches, Rapides,

Sabine Leesville

Washington B3 1819 48 1820-80 Original Parish Franklinton

Webster El 1871 36 1880 Bossier, Claiborne Minden

West Baton

Rouge C3 1807 12 1820-80 Baton Rouge Fort Allen

West Carroll CI 1877 17 1880 Carroll Oak Grove

West

Feliciana C3 1824 10 1830-80 Feliciana Saint Francisville

Winn D2 1851 16 1860-80 Natchitoches Winnfield

U. S. Census Note: Available are the following census reports from divided
or discarded parishes: Attakaps, 1810; Baton Rouge, 1810; Carroll, 1840-1870; Fel-
iciana, 1820; and Opelousas, 1810.

Maine

Capital, Augusta

English and French explorers visited
the present Maine region many times
from 1498 to 1605. It was not until 1623
that the first permanent settlement was
established. A community came into ex-
istance that year on the Saco River, in
the extreme southwestern section. The
settlers came into the district as English
subjects and they brought with them the
laws of England. They came with a per-
mission granted them by the English
rulers to create for themselves property
in American lands.

One hundred Englishmen aboard two
vessels left Plymouth on May 31, 1607.
At the mouth of the Kennebec, then

known as the Sagadahoc, they estaslished
a settlement which was disbanded the
next year when the remaining settlers
returned to England. Some historians
maintain that not all of the settlers re-
turned to England. Some, they say, ap-
peared in the present Pemaquid, Lincoln
County, in 1608.

The appetite of many a hard-working,
low paid, stay-at-home Englishman was
whetted by the description of the New
Land by one of the returning explorers
when he wrote, "Here are no hard land-
lords to rack us with high rents, or ex-
torted fines to consume us. Here, every
man may be master and owner of his

62 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

own labor and land, or the greatest part, 1716 until 1760, covered the entire state,
in a small time." In the latter year it was divided into

Various small groups brought over three counties, Lincoln, Cumberland and
from England had settled along the coast York. At that time the population was
of Maine where they engaged in fish- about 17,000, of which 10,000 lived in
ing, but the first large contingent to the cities mentioned in the sixth para-
corne were the English Pilgrims or graph above. Above Oxford county, the
Puritans who arrived via Holland and entire section was a wilderness into
Plymouth off Cape Cod in Massachusetts which few, if any settlers, had dared
on November 11, 1620. Most of these to enter. For more than a hundred
so called dissenters came originally from years transportation was one of the
Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. greatest handicaps of the settlements.

In 1622 two members of the Plymouth Travel was mainly along the river cours-
Company in England, Sir Ferdinando es. The extremely few roads then existing
Gorgas and Captain John Mason were were in such terrible conditions that the
granted all of the land between the Ken- limited number of cart roads were a
nebec and the Merrimac rivers. It was dread to travelers. In many places they
about that time that Dover and Ports- were almost impassable. To travel a
mouth in New Hampshire were estab- distance less than sixty miles in those
lished. Later the grant was divided, days required two long days. In the
Mason taking the part that is now New winter time, when the roads were froz-
Hampshire, and Gorgas the eastern en, they were in better passable condi-
section, called Maine. tion than in the summer. For many

Late in sixteen hundred many com- years after settlements were established
munities existed along the coast of Maine in the Maine region, most of the roads,
and the many rivers in that section, or trails, could be used only by the horse-
Among them were Kittery, York, Kenne- back riders.

bunk, Saco, Arundel (Kennebunkport), In 1775 both York and Biddeford were
and several others which in that early county seats or shire towns of York
period had a population of several shire, which at that time had a popula-
thousand. Dissatisfaction among the early tion of about 15,000 or about half the
settlers toward the aristocratic regime population of the state. Fryeburg, on
of Gorges and his sons led to Maine's an- the New Hampshire borderline about
nexation to Massachusetts. After the 65 miles north of Kittery, was made a
death of King Charles in 1685, and the deed registration office for the section
brief ascension of James II, Massachus- north of the Ossipee River in 1799.
etts suddenly lost all of its former legal Like York county so Cumberland coun-
standings, and landholders had to re- ty had a string of fair sized communi-
secure their holdings at high fees. The ties along the coast in those early days,
new land titles were recorded in Boston, including Scarboro, Cape Elizabeth, Fal-
but Maine also established a special land mouth (Portland), and Yarmouth. These
office in York. Cumberland County coast towns had a

In those early days the population population of a little less than ten thous-
east of the Kennebec River was slim, and. Among the inland plantations, run-
indeed, most of the settlers gathering ning almost parallel with the coast from
on the ocean shore or along the rivers twelve to fifteen miles, were Gorham,
between the Kennebec and the Piscata- Windham, New Gloucester, Gray (New
qua. Among the settlements of those Boston), Raymond, Turner (Sylvester
early seventeen hundreds were Biddeford, Canada), and Harrison (Otisfield). Very
opposite Saco on the southwest bank of few, if any, settlements existed then in
the Saco River; Portland, then known as the eastern part of the present Oxford
Falmouth Neck; Berwick, on the east County, not even a road or a trail,
side of the Piscataqua, which is the From the east boundary of Cumber-
border between Maine and New Hamp- land extended to the Canadian line, the
shire; Sanford and Alford, north of Ber- rest of Maine formed the large county
wick and west of Biddeford; and a long of Lincoln. Only two towns were estab-
line of smaller communities extending lished along the ocean in all of that ter-
north along the western state border, ritory, Topsham in the west part of the
such as Hollis (Little Falls), Newfield present Sagadahoc County, and Belfast
(Hubbardstown), Waterborough, (Mas- in the present Waldo County. About a
sabesic), Limington (Ossipee), Baldwin dozen other small communities existed
(Flintstown), Bridgton (Bridgetown), along the Kennebec River for a dist-
Fryeburg (Pequawkett), and Stow. ance of about seventy miles from its

As a county of Maine, Yorkshire from mouth. Between the northernmost Nor-

MAINE 63

ridgewock in the present Somerset Coun- alogical libraries in most of the states,
ty and the coast, some of the other Unpublished information may be search-
towns then existing were Waterville, ed in the various city offices in the
Winslow, Sidney, Hallowell, Gardiner state. The large majority of the early
(Pittstown), Richmond, and Bowdoin- communities still existing have printed
ham. Pownalborough (Dresden) was the their town histories. Most of those his-
early county seat of Lincoln County. tories contain genealogical information

Before the first federal census in about the early settlers.

1790, the Maine census was taken twice Division of Vital Statistics, Depart-

— in 1764 and 1772. The 1764 census show- ment of Health and Welfare, Augusta,

ed the population of the three counties Maine, has records of birth, marriage,

to be, York, 11,362; Cumberland, 8291, death, and divorce dating from 1892,

and Lincoln, 4,371. The 1772 census gave adoption records from 1935, and about

htese figures, York, 13,398; Cumberland, half a million birth, death, and mar-

10,139, and Lincoln, 5,563. riage records of earlier dates. The state

From 1650 to 1819, Maine was under census records of 1850, 1860 and 1870

the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. After are also available there,

many attempts Maine finally succeeded The city clerks of nearly five hundred

in breaking away in 1819. A year later towns and cities are in possession of the

she was admitted into the union as the original records of vital statistics long

twenty-third state. before 1892. Authorities have reported

Although the early settlers were main- that "the completeness of the early

ly from England, many Scotch-Irish and records varies all the way from absent

Huguenots came during the first cen- to quite complete. Portland's records, for

tury. Some German families came to instance, are very complete and date

Waldoboro, straight west from Rock- from 1712."

land on the south-eastern Atlantic shore In the sixteen offices of clerks of
line, from 1740 to 1800. During the nine- court are the records of land titles as
teenth century many artisans came from well as the divorce records. The six-
England, Scotland and the Scandinavian teen registrars of probate have the
countries to work in factories and ship settlements of estates and the adoption
yards. About 1870 many Swedes settled in records. They also have the 1880 census
the northeast corner of the state as in- enumerations for their respective count-
dicated by such Swedish place-names ies, but six of the sixteen, it is re-
as New Sweden, Stockholm, Jemtland, ported, have strangely mislaid them. The
and Linneus. The large lumber camps courts are located in the county seats of
in the northwest section of the state each county,
later beckoned many Finns. War service records, including graves

Maine has a population of 913,774. registration, is under the office of the

She ranks thirty-fifth in the nation. Adjutant General in Augusta.

Her population is divided 51,7 per cent The important libraries in the state

city and 48.3 per cent rural. are located in the following cities.

Existing conditions do not tend to- Augusta ( Kennebec Co.), Maine State Li-
ward large cities in the state. None of brary. State House; Bangor (Penobscot
them are in the hundred thousand class. Co.), Public Library, 145 Harlow St.,
The largest is Portland, in the south- (genealogies and town histories of Maine,
west corner, with a population of 77,- N.H., Vt, and Mass.) ; Portland (Cumber-
634 in the 1950 census. Other compara- land Co.), Guy Gannett Publishing Com-
tive cities are Lewiston, about thirty pany. Press Herald-Express Library, 390
miles north of Portland, 40,974; Bangor, Congress St., (newspaper refrences) r
in the mid-southern section, about eighty- Portland Public Library, 619 Congress
five miles northeast of Lewiston, 31,558; St.

Auburn, the twin city of Lewiston, 23,- The following reference books on Maine^

134; Augusta, the state capital, about may help you in your research:

fifteen miles northeast of Lewiston on Banks, Charles Edward, Topographic-

the Kennebec River, 20,913. Dictionary o[ 2885 English Emigrants to

Very early in their history, Maine New England, 1620-1650. Publ. 1937. The

townsi began to keep records of births, homes of emigrants, parishes and counties

marriages and deaths. Notwithstanding were ascertained in numerous cases,

the many repeated governmental changes Documentary History of the State of

during the first two hundred years the Maine. 24 volumes, 1869-1916. Maine His-

vital statistics of the territory were dis- torical Society.

turbed but little. Many of the records House, Charles J., Names o[ Maine

have been printed and are now in Gene- Soldiers ol the American Revolution. Bur-

64 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

leigh & Flynt, Augusta, Me., 1893. 50 pp. 1780; Leeds, 1780; Lewiston, 1768; Lis-

LiBBY, Charles Thornton; Noyes, Sybiil bon, 1788; Livermore, 1779; Minot, 1769;

AND Davis, Walier Goodwin, Genealogical Turner, 1772; Webster, 1774.

Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. CUMBERLAND COUNTY — Bridg-

Five Volumes. Total pages. 795. Based ton, 1768; Brunswick, 1628; Cape Eliz-

largely on Col. Banks' two mammoth abeth, 1630; Casco, 1729; Cumberland,

manuscripts, Maine Genealogies, which rep- ^640; Deering, 1637; Falmouth, 1632;

,., ,. r , . „ ,u 1. Freeport, 1658; Gorham, 1732; Gray,

resent a life time of work in all the li- ^r,cn tr n -iz-cr. ivt ^i ^

_ ^ , , 1756; Harpswell, 1659; New Gloucester,

braries over the country The Southworth^ I735. Portland, 1632; Scarborough, 1631;

Anthoensen Press. Portland, Me.. 1928-38. standish. 1763; Windham, 1735; Yar-

LiBBY, Charles Thornton, Province j^Qy^j^ IQ^Q,

If^ S^?''io.^^';°''^' "^^ ^'''"^- ^°^' ^' ^^^^- FRANKLIN COUNTY - Avon, 1790;

Vol. II. 1931 (index). Chesterville, 1782; Farmington, 1794;

Little, George Thomas_ Genealog^cal ^^^^ ^^9^ Industry, 1793-4; Jay.

^AU .^l^m Tf I w ^ 1795; New Sharon, 1794; Philips. 1790;

About 0.000 individual biographies. Vol. ,,;..,, ivqo

I. 500 pp. Vol. II. 550 pp. Vol. III. 600 pp. ^^^^^oCK COUNTY Blue Hill

Vol. IV. 633 pp. Lewis Historical Publish- .^St^^" , ,. ^"XT .^^r S ! I'

ing Company, New York, 1909. (Commer- IJf^; Brooklme S 1688; Bucksport.

cial biographies should always be checked ^^^^J Carlme. O. 1626; Demariscotta.

carefully.) S- l^^^; Deer Isle, O. 1789; Eastbrook,

Maine 1790 Census. 105 pp. Bureau of S. 1800; Eden, 1763; Ellsworth, S. 1763;

the Census. Government Printing Office, Gouldsborough, S. 1700; Hancock, S.

Washington, D. C, 1908. 1764-5; Penobscot, S. 1765; Fremont, S.

Maine Register and State Reference Book. 1613.

1852. Masters. Smith & Company. Hal- KENNEBEC COUNTY — Augusta,

lowell, Me.. 1852. 1761-2; Harrington, 1797; Belgrade, 1774;

Marshall, J. M., Buxton. Maine. Cen- Bingham, 1784; China, 1774; Clinton,

tennial Anniversary, 288 pp. with 148 pp. 1775; Fayette, 1779; Hallowell, 1771;

of genealogy. Dresser. McLellan 6 Com- Litchfield, 1795; Manchester, 1774; Mon-

pany, Portland, Me.. 1874. mouth, 1777; Pittston bef. 1676; Vassal-

PoPE, Charles Henry, Pioneers of Maine boro, 1760; Wayne, 1773; Waterville,

and New Hampshire. 1623-1660, a des- 1760; Windsor, 1790; Winslow, 1771; Win-

criptive list drawn from the records of the throp, 1771.

colonies, towns, churches, courts, and other KNOX COUNTY — Camden, 1770;

contemporary sources. Alphabetically at- Gushing, 1789; Friendship, 1750;' Hope,

ranged. 1908. 1782; Rockland, 1767; St. George, 1635;

Sargent, William Mitchell, Maine Thomaston, 1770; Union, 1786; Vinal

Wills. 1640-1760. 953 pp. Four indexes: Haven, 1765; Warren, 1736.

Testators. Other Persons, and Miscellaneous* LINCOLN COUNTY -- Boothbay, 1630;

Brown, Thurston & Company, Portland, Me.. Bremen, 1735; Dresden, 1649; Edgecomb,

^ e T 7^ r. .x-^-, 1744; Jefferson, bef. Rev. New Castle,

Wes, John, Ascafaqua P/oneers, 1623- -^630 Pownalsborough. 1760; Waldo-

775. Sketches of early settlers and the borough, 1733-40; Wiscasset, 1730.

first generation of their children, who lived OXFORD COUNTY _ Ondover, 1789;

on both sides of the Piscataqua River_ in- Brownsfield, 1770; Buck-

eluding Dover, Oyster River, Kittery, Exe- ^. ,, ' _„ ' . ^„„„ ' , ^„oo

ter. Brewick, and Portsmouth.. ^^^1^'. ^Z^^; Canton, 1790 ; Denmark, 1788-

Spencer, Wilbur Daniel, P.oneers on ^' ^'""^f^' 37^^' Fjyeburg 1763; Han-

Maine Rivers, with lists to 1651. 1930. o^^^' ^^^'^' Hartford, aft. Rev. Hebron,

Sprauge's Journal of Maine History. 14 1"'^^' ^i^^"^' ^'^'^^^ ^^^^1^' ^'^'^'^' Norway,

vols. Printed 1913-1926. l'^^^' Oxford, Dur. Rev. Oxford, 1780;

The Maine Historical and Genealogical Rumford, 1782; Waterford, 1775.

Recorder. 1884-1898. 8 vols. Reprint of vital PENOBSCOT COUNTY— Bangor, 1769;

records, family sketches, etc. (Valuable) Carmel, 1695; Charlestown, 1795; Corinth,

United States, Works Progress Ad- 1'^96; Eddington, 1785; Hampden, 1767;

ministration. Bibliography of Research Orono, 1770; Orrington, 1770.

Projects Reports. Check list of historical SAGADAHOC COUNTY — Arrowsic,

records survey publications, 1940. 1679; Bath, 1660; Bowdoin, previous Rev.

Maine Towns Organized Before 1800 Bowdoinham, 1762; Georgetown, 1716;

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY — Dur- Richmond, 1650; Sagadahoe, 1623; Top-
ham, 1772; E. Livermore, 1780; Greene, sham, 1658; Woolwich, 1638.

MAINE

SOMERSET COUNTY — Anson, 1798;
Athens, 1782; Cannaan, 1770; Concord,
aft. Rev.; Cornville, 1794; Embden, 1779;
Fairfield, 1774; Harmony, 1796; Nor-
ridgewock, aft. Rev.; Skowhegan, 1792;
Palmyra, 1779; Pittsfield, 1794; Water-
ville, 1760.

WALDO COUNTY — Belfast, 1769;
Frankfort, 1770; Freedom, 1794; Isle-
borough, 1769; Jackson, 1708; Monroe,
1760; Montville, 1778-9; Troy, 1778.

WASHINGTON COUNTY — Calais,
bef. 1758; Cutler, 1785; Denny ville, 1786;

Eastport, 1780-2; Edmonds, 1775; Har-
rington, 1762; Lunec, 1776; Machias, 1762-
3; Pembroke, 1774.

YORK COUNTY — Acton, 1776; Al-
fred, 1764; Berwick, 1624; Biddleford,
1617-18; Buxton, 1772; Cornish, 1794;
Dayton, 1664; Eliot, 1632; Hollis, 1753;
Kennebunk, 1643; Kennebunkport, 1653;
Kittery, 1623; Lebanon, 1746; Limerick,
1775; Lyman, 1778; N. Berwick, 1630;
Parsonfield, 1772; Saco, 1653; Sanford,
1745; S. Berwick, 1624; Waterborough,
1768; Wells, 1640; York, 1663.

County Map of Maine

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Maine County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)
Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available

Androscoggin Dl 1854 84 1860-80

Aroostook

1839

1840-80

Cumberland Dl

1760

169

1850-80

Franklin

1838

1790-80

Hancock

1789

1800-80

Kennebec

1799

1800-80

Knox

1860

18G0-80

Lincoln

1760

1790-80

Oxford*

1805

1810-80

Penobscot

1816

108

1820-80

Piscataquis

1838

1840-80

Sagadahoc

1854

1860-80

Somerset

1809

1810-80

Waldo

1827

1830 80

Washington

1789

1790-80

York**

(shire)

1638

1790-80

*Part of 1810 Census missing.
**Part of 1800 Census missing.

Parent County County Seat

Cumberland, Oxford,

Kennebec Auburn

Washington Houton

York Portland

Cumberland Farmington

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Augusta

Lincoln, Waldo Rockland

York Wiscasset

York, Cumberland So. Paris

Hancock Bangor

Penobscot, Somerset Dover, Foxcroft

Lincoln Bath

Kennebec Skowhegan

Hancock Belfast

Lincoln Machias

Reorg. 1658 Alfred

Original county

Maryland

Capital, Annapolis

Depressed by the constant persecu-
tion in England of the members of the
Roman Catholic church, with which he
had become affiliated, Lord Baltimore
(George Calvert), a member of Parlia-
ment and Secretary of State of James
I from 1609 to 1625, sponsored move-
ments to establish colonies in America
for the persecuted religionists in his
homeland. Failing in his first attempt
to build a colony in Newfoundland about
1620, he persuaded the King of Eng-
land to grant him land for a colony
farther south along the Atlantic coast.
After the grant was made, but before
the charter had been signed. Lord Balti-
more died. King Charles I then trans-
ferred the grant to Lord Baltimore's
son, Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord
Baltimore.

In appreciation of the grant, Lord
Baltimore named the colony in honor
of Queen Henrietta Maria, queen con-
sort of King Charles I of England.

The grant included all of the land
between the fortieth parellel and the
southern bank of the Potomac River.
The first contingent of emigrants to
be shipped to the new colony in 1634
consisted of about twenty Catholic
gentlemen and two hundred Protestant
laborers. They established a settlement

about nine miles up the St George's
riVer, which empties into the north side
of the Potomac river, near its mouth.

Already occupying Kent Island in the
Chesapeake Bay, just opposite the pre-
sent site of Annapolis, were William
Claiborne, a Virginia planter, and a
large group of settlers he had brought
there from Virginia several years ahead
of the Calvert colonists. Continuous
warfare ensued between the two fac-
tions, as Claiborne refused to adhere
to orders from the British King grant-
ing the territory to Lord Baltimore.
It was not until Claiborne's death in
1677 that hostilities ceased.

The Maryland colony enjoyed a rap-
id growth. This was due. in a measure,
to the pronouncement of its founder
that religious toleration and protection
would be extended to all Christians
of whatever shade of religious belief
who would come there to establish
their homes. The Act Concerning Re-
ligion, passed by the colony in 1649,
declared that "no person professing to
believe in Jesus Christ shall henceforth
be troubled or molested on account of
religion."

This attracted a large group of Puri-
tans who had become disgusted with the
activities of the Church of England

MARYLAND 67

controlling Virginia. They left Virginia may, in some cases, be found at the

and came into Maryland. They settled Clerk of Court's office in each county.

, ., , . . A A Land grants are only in custody of the

and bunt up what is now Anne Arun- ^and Office, Annapolis. Maryland. Wills

del county. This influx increased the are in the Register of Wills' Office in

population of Maryland to about thirty each county."

thousand people. LIBRARIES IN MARYLAND

In 1660 another migration brought Annapolis (Anne Arundel), Maryland

many settlers to the so-called Eastern State Library, Court Appeals Bldg.,

Shore, the land east of Chesapeake Bay. (original files, Maryland Gazette, 1745-

This movement was so great it necessi- 1845, early maps); Baltimore, (Balti-

tated the organization of Talbot county, more), Maryland Historical Society Lib-

About five years later, with the migra- rary, 201 W. Monument St.; Enoch Pratt

tion continuing steadily, Somerset coun- Free Public Library, 400 Catherdral St.,

ty was formed south of Talbot (Maryland newspapers); Hagerstown,

During the first century of the settle- (Washington), Washington County Free

ment of Maryland, the settlers clung Public Library, 21 Summit Ave.

to the land along the many water The following books contain valuable

courses, the rivers and the bays. No genealogical information:

one ventured far away from the streams. Archives of Maryland: Muster Rolls and

which provided about the only mode of Q/'/zer Records of Service of Maryland

transportation m those days. It was j^.^^ps in the American Revolution, 1775-

not until about 1740 that the Appa- 17^3 73^ p^^^ ^^^qq

lachian section o f M a r y 1 a nd was Baldwin, " Jane", (Mrs. Cotton). The

claimed by settlers. Eng ish, Scotch ^ ^^^^ Calendar of Wills. 8 vols. Each

and Scotch-Irish emigrants f^^ , ^^ ^^Xume indexed. 1635 -17^3. 2379 pp.

from St. Marys, Charles, and Prince ^ „ c r\ij

George's countfes at that time. Joining ^^^^7^^' H^^^'^™ .^'^^'^iQi,^'^

with them shortly afterward were large ^^^y^^nd Famihes, vital statistics, 1916

groups of Germans who had come down Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, Maryland

from Pennsylvania. The population in- Records. Colonial Revolutionary, County

creased so rapidly that in 1748 Fred- a^^^ Church, from Original Sources. Vital

erick county was organized in the north- statistics. Valuable to researchers. Vol. 1, 513

west section of Maryland. PP- Williams 6 Wilkins Company, Balti-

To Baltimore in 1755 came many more 1915. Vol. II. 688 pp. Lancaster Press,
Acadians driven from Nova Scotia. Less Lancaster, Pa.. 1928. (Southern Book Com-
than forty years later another group of pany, St. James Hotel, Charles St. at Cent-
French people, upwards of a thousand, er. Baltimore 1, Maryland.)
sought refuge in Baltimore from the Burns, Annie Walker, Maryland Gen-
race riots in Santo Domingo in 1793. ealogical and Historical Recorder. Mimeo-
From 1817 to 1847 thousands of Irish graphed. 13 vol.

immigrants came to Baltimore as canal , Abstract o[ Wills o[ Baltimore

diggers. Later they established them- Co., 1791-1797, 5 vols.

selves as farmers and miners in the Hayes, Jr., Robert F.. The Maryland

Appalachian section. Thousands of peo- Genealogical Bulletin, 1930-44. Quarterly

pie who fled Germany after the 1848 magazine.

Revolution in that country were given Johnston, Christopher, Genealogies ol

shelter in Baltimore. ^/,e Members and Record o[ Services of An-

The rapid increase in the Maryland ^^^^^^^^ Society of Colonial Wars in the

popultion is indicated by the fact that State of Maryland. (Pedigrees of members.)

eleven of her twenty-three counties ^57 Baltimore, 1905.

were formed before 1700 and eight of ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^ Founders of

tno remaining before 1800. ,, » j m.i t 1 r;t n ml

^ . -^ t , .,»■ 1, Maryland. 194 pp. Joel Munsell, Albaflv,

Concerning vital records of Maryland,

1878.

the Division of Vital Records and Statis- „ , ,, r^ . . r »»
tics. Department of Health, 2411 N. , P^^^'^^^' A,^'^^ Morris. Register of Mary-
Charles St., Baltimore 18, Maryland, says, '^"^^ Heraldic tamilies. 1635 to 93^.
"This office is primarily issuing copies Series I. 1935; Series II. 352 pp., 1938.
of births, deaths and marriages. Our Baltimore. (Southern Book Company. St.
birth and death records cover the years James Hotel, Charles St. at Center, Bait;
1898 to the present time. Our marriage more 1. Maryland.)

records begin June 1, 1951. Marriage U. S. Bureau of the Census, First Cen-

records prior to that date may be ob- sus of Unitea States, 1790, Maryland, Gov-

tained from the clerk of the Circuit ernment Printing Office, Washington, D. C,

Court in the county of marriage. Deeds 1907.

68 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

MARYLAND

Map

Name

Index

Allegany

Anne Arundel C2

Baltimore

City*

Calvert

Caroline

Carroll

Cecil

Charles

Dorchester

Frederick

Garrett

Harford

Howard

Kent

Montgomery D2

Prince

Georges

Queen Annes B2

Saint Mary'

s C4

Somerset

Talbot

Washington

Wicomico

Worcester

*1800 Census

Maryland County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census

Date Pop. Reports

Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

1789 90 1800-80 Washington Cumberland

1650 117 1790-80 Original county Annapolis

1659 270 1790-80 Original county Towson

950 1790-80 Baltimore Baltimore

1650 12 1800-80 Original county Prince Frederick

1773 18 1790-80 Dorchester, Queen Annes Denton

1836 45 1840-80 Baltimore, Frederick Westminster

1674 33 1790-80 Kent Elkton

1658 23 1790-80 Original county La Plata

1669 28 1790-80 Original county Cambridge

1748 62 1790-80 Prince Georges Frederick

1872 21 1880 Allegany Oakland

1773 52 1790-80 Baltimore Bel Air

1851 23 1860-80 Baltimore, Anne Arundel .... Ellicott City

1642 14 1790-80 Orgiinal county Chestertown

1776 164 1790-80 Frederick Rockville

1695 194 1790-80 Charles, Calvert Upper Marlboro

1706 15 1790-80 Talbot Centerville

1637 29 1790-80 Original county Leonardtovvn

1666 21 1800-80 Original county Princess Anne

1662 19 1790-80 Kent Easton

1776 79 1790-80 Frederick Hagerstown

1867 40 1870-80 Sommerset, Worcester Salisbury

1742 23 1790-80 Somerset Snow Hill

missing.

Massachusetts

Capital, Boston

It was on December 11, 1620, accord-
ing to the calendar then in vogue,
December 21, according to our calendar
that Massachusetts came into existence
with the landing of the Pilgrims on
Plymouth Rock. Through the initiative
of the Massachusetts Bay Company an-
other colony was formed at Salem in
1628, and two years later more than a
thousand colonists arrived founding the
towns of Boston, Charleston, Roxbury,
Dorchester, Watertown, and Newton,
which later became Cambridge. Within
ten years, more than 20,000 immigrants,
almost entirely British, had landed in
Massachusetts. For the first 200 years
or more by far the larger number of
immigrants were from England.

Disasters and political troubles of
various kinds in Europe from 1850 on
brought a large influx from Ireland,
Germany and France. A few years later
Italians, Russians, Poles, and Portuguese

came into the state to work in its rapidly
growing factories, mills and fisheries.
About 20 per cent of the population is
foreign born.

The people of few states have been
of greater assistance to the genealog-
ical researcher than have those of Mas-
sachusetts. From its earliest days, re-
cords of all vital statistics were kept
imd preserved. It is said that it is
easier to trace genealogy in Massachu-
setts than in any other state. This because
more records are available. Every town
not only kept records from its earliest
days, but has printed those records for
the convenience of the researcher.

Sixth state to join the Union, Massa-
chusetts was admitted Feb. 6, 1788. The
1950 population was 4,690,514, a little
more than 300,000 above the 1940 census
figures. Yet, Massachusetts in 1950
stepped from the eighth to the ninth
rank in population among the states.

70 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Only two states, Rhode Island and New Massachusetts Historical Society Li-
Jersey, have more people per square brary, 1154 Boylston St., (New England
mile than Massachusetts, where an av- histories and genealogies) ; Massachusetts
erage of 568.1 persons live in a square State Library, Beacon Hill, (history and
mile. That Massachusetts has numerous newspapers); New England Historic
cities is indicated by the fact that 84.4 Genealogical Society, 9 Ashburn Place,
per cent of the population live in cities (170,000 volumes of history and genealo-
and only 15.6 per cent are country gy, and manuscript family genealogies),
dwellers. Boston is rapidly approaching Cambridge, (Middlesex), Public Library,
the million mark in population with 449 Broadway, (genealogical collection);
801,444. Other cities with more than Harvard University Library, (early
one hundred thousand population are American newspapers). Dedham, (Noi-
Worchester, 203,486; Springfield, 162,399; folk), Dedham Historical Society, (con-
Cambridge, 120,740; Fall River, 111,963, siderable number of historical and fami-
and New Bedford, 109,189. ly histories and diaries in books and man-

The birth and death records since uscripts, town histories, family genealo-
1850 may be obtained from Registrar of gies, and newspapers from earliest days);
Vital Statistics, 272 State House, Bos- Lowell, (Middlesex), City Library, Mer-
ton 33, Mass. Some records prior to 1850 rimac St., (Book and manuscript gene-
are in the offices of the city or town alogies); Lynn, (Essex), Public Library,
clerks in localities where incidents hap- North Common St., (New England his-
pened. Similar records for Boston avail- tories and genealogies); New Bedford,
able since 1639 in the office of the City (Bristol), Free Public Library, Pleasant
Registrar, Registry Division, Room 1004 Street, (southeastern Massachusetts f ami-
City Hall Anne.x. Boston 8, Mass. ly genealogies in books and manuscripts) ;

Partial marriage records from 1841, Pittsfield, (Berkshire), The Berkshire
and complete from 1848 are in the Athenaeum, 44 Bank Row, (biography,
office of the Division of Vital Statistics, Massachusetts history. New England
The Secretary of State, Boston 33, Mass. genealogy); Salem, (Essex), Essex Insti-
Similar records in the offices of the tute Library, 132-134 Essex Street, (town
city or town clerk where license was is- vital statistics, family histories, and gene-
sued. Marriage bans may be found in alogies, printed and in manuscript, and
respective churches in the city. genealogical and historical magazines);

Divorce records are with the Clerk of Springfield, (Hampden), City Library

the Superior Court or the Register of Association, 220 State Street. Westfield.

Probate in the county where divorce was (Hampden), Athenaeum, Elm Street,

granted. (vital statistic records of the city, ceme-

The state census records at five year tery inscriptions, death notices from

intervals from 1850 to 1870, inclusive, newspapers, family histories, printed and

are in the office of the Secretary of State, manuscript).

The records of wills, deeds and land Among the many volumes available

transactions are in the office of the to ease the task of the researchers of

Secretary of State. Massachusetts genealogy are the follow-

The city or county assessors have all ing:

records of taxpayers. Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters

The office of the Adjutant General o[ the Commonwealth. A study of the Emi-

controls all war service records. grants and Emigration in Colonial Times: to

Every town library in Massachusetts which are added Lists of Passengers to

has vital statistical records from the Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships

adjoining communities and numerous which brought them; their English Homes

biographical and historical books and and the Places of their Settlement in Mass.

manuscripts about early residents. Among 1620-1640. 229 pp. Houghton Mifflin Com-

the most important libraries in the pany, Boston, 1930.

state for genealogical purposes are the Boltwood, L. M. Genealogies of Hadley

following: Boston, (Suffolk), Public Li- Families, embracing early settlers of the

brary, Copley Square, (biographies, towns of Hatfield. South Hadley, Amherst.

New England family genealogies, Eng- and Granby. 168 pp. Metcalf & Company,

lish parish registers and records, Northampton, 1862.

hcarldry from Great Britain, Ireland, First U. S. Census, \ 7 90 ^Massachusetts,

Germany, Italy, Holland, France, and 363 pp. Government Printing Office, 1908.

Belgium, early American and Civil War Hills, Leon Clark. Mayflower Planters

histories, old maps, old newspapers); and First Comers to Ye Olde Colonie, \77

MASSACHUSETTS 71

pp. Hills Publishing Company, Washing- buryport, North Andover, Peabody, Rock-
ton D. C. 1936. P^^^' Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus,

Massachusetts Encyclopedia of Biography Sv\ ampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, and

and Genealogy, Vol. 1. 562 pp. Vol. 11. West Newbury.

^jQ FRANKLIN — Ashfield Bernardston,

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Buckland, Charlemont, Colrain, Conway,

Revolutionary War. 17 vols, of abt. 1,000 Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Haw-

pp. each. Wright & Potter Printing Com- ley Heath, Leverett, Leyden, Monroe,

pany. Boston, 1896-1908. Montague, New Salem. Northfield, Or-

Nason, Rev. Elias. A Gazetteer of the ange, Rowe, Shellburne, Shutesbury,

State of Massachusetts. Map and illistrations. Sunderland, Warwick. Wendell, and

576 pp. B. B. Russel, Boston, 1874. Whately.

Rand, John C. One of a Thousand. HAMPDEN — Agawam, Blandford,

Biographies of Massachusetts Residents. 707 Brimfield, Chester, Chicopee, East Long-

pp. First National Publishing Company, meadow. Granville, Hampden, Holland,

Boston, 1890. Holyoke, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Monson,

Stark, James H. The Loyalists of Mas- Montgomery, Palmer, Russell. South-

sachusetts and The Other Side of the wick, Springfield, Tolland, Wales, West-

American Revolution. With names and bi- field, West Springfield, and Wilbraham.

ographies. Fully indexed. 510 pp. The Salem HAMPSJURE— Amherst, Belchertown,

Press Company, Salem, Mass., 1910. Chesterfield, Cummington, East Hamp-

The cities and towns of no other state ton, Goshen, Granby. Hadley, Hatfield,
have so many published community his- Huntington, Middlefield, Northampton,
tories and vital statistics as has Massa- Pelham, Plainfield, South Hardely, South-
chusetts. If your ancestors were there ampton, Ware, West Hampton, Williams-
before 1850 it would be well to check burg, and Worthington.
with the libraries and town clerks to MIDDLESEX — Acton, Arlington. Ash-
ascertain what information may be had by. Ashland, Ayer, Bedford, Belmont,
from the printed records. Billerica, Boxborough, Burlington, Cam-

The present Massachusetts counties bridge, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord,

are divided into the following townships: Dracut, Dunstable, Everett, Framingham,

BARNSTABLE — Barnstable, Bourne, Groton, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson,

Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Lowell,

Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee. Orleans, Maiden, Marlborough, Medford, Mel-

Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Well- rose. Nation, Newton, North Reading,

fleet, and Yarmouth. Pepperell, Reading, Sherborn, Shirley,

BERKSHIRE— Adams, Alford, Becket, Sommerville. Stoneham, Stow, Sudbury,
Cheshire, Clarksburg, Dalton, Edgemont, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsborough,
Florida, Great Barrington, Hancock, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Way-
Hinsdale, Lanesborough, Lee, Lenox, land, Westford, Weston, Wilmington,
Monterey, Mount Washington, New Ash- Winchester, and Woburn.
ord, New Marlborough, North Adams, NANTUCKET— Nantucket.
Otis, Peru, Pittsfield, Richmond, Sandis- NORFOLK— Avon, Bellingham, Brain-
field, Savoy, Sheffield, Stocksridge, tree, Brookline, Canton, Cohasset, Ded-
Tyringham, Washington, West Stock- ham, Dover, Foxborough, Franklin, Hol-
ridge, Williamstown, and Windsor. brook, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Milton,

BRISTOL — Acushnet, Attleboro, Berk- Needham, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville,

ley, Dartmouth, Dighton, Easton, Fair- Quincy, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton,

haven. Fall River, Freetown, Mansfield. Walpole, Wellesley, Westwood, Wey-

New Bedford, North Attleborough, Nor- mouth, and Wrentham.

ton, Rynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Swan- PLYMOUTH — Abington, Bridgewater,

sea, Taunton, and Westport. Brockton, Carver, Duxbury, East Bridge-

DUKES — Chilmark, Edgartown, Gay- water, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hing-

head, Gosnold, Oak Bluffs, Tidbury, and ham, Hull, Kingston, Lakeville, Marion,

West Tidbury. Marshfield, Mattapoisett. Middleborough,

ESSEX — Andover, Amesbury, Bever- Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton,

ly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown. Rochester, Rockland, Scituate, West

Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Hav- Bridgewater, Wareham, and Whitman,

erhill, Ipswich, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynn- SUFFOLK — Boston, Chelsea, Revere,

field, Manchester, Marblehead, Merri- and Winthrop.

mac, Methuen, Middleton, Nahant, New- WORCESTER— Ashburnham, Athol,

72 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Auburn, Barre, Berlin, Blackstone, Bolt- buryport, 1764; Rowley, 1639; Salem,

on, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Clin- 1630; Salisbury, 1640; Saugus, 1631,

ton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, name ch. to Lynn; Topsfield, 1648; Wen-

Fitchburg, Gardner, Grafton, Hardwick, ham, 1643.

Harvard, Holden, Hopedale, Hubbardston, FRANKLIN COUNTY — Ashfield,

Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Lunen- 1'765; Bernardstown, 1765; Buckland,

burg, Mendon, Milford, Millburg, Mill- 1"'79; Charlemont, 1765; Colrain, 1781;

ville. New Braintree, North Borough, Conway, 1767; Deerfield, 1677; Gill, 1793;

Northbridge, North Brookfield, Oakham, Greenfield, 1753; Hawley, 1792; Heath,

Oxford, Paxton, Petersham. Phillipston, 1785; Huntstown, 1736; Leverett, 1774;

Princeton, Royalston, Rutland, Shrews- Leyden, 1784; Montague, 1754; New

bury, Southborough, South Bridge. Spen- Salem, 1753; Northfield, 1714; Orange,

cer. Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Tern- 1783; Rowe, 1785; Sherburne, 1786;

pleton, Upton. Uxbridge, Warren, Web- Shutesbury, 1761; Sunderland, 1718;

ster, Westborough, West Brookfield, Warwick, 1763; Wendall, 1781; Whateley,

West Boylston, Westminster, Winchen- 1771.

don, and Worcester. HAMPDEN COUNTY — Blandford.

Massachusetts Towns Organized 1741, Orig. Glasgow; Brimfield, 1714;

Before 1800 Chester, 1783; Orig. Murrayfield; Gran-

BAKNSTABLE COUNTY — Barn- ville, 1754; Longmeadow, 1783; Ludlow,

stable,, 1638; Chatham, 1712; Dennis, 1774; Monson, 1760; Montgomery, 1780;

1798; Eastham, 1651; Falmouth, 1694; Murrayfield. 1765; Palmer, 1752; Rus-

Harwich, 1694; Nawsett, 1643; Orleans, sell, 1792; South Brimfield, 1762; South-

1747; Provincetown from Eastham, wick. 1770; Springfield, 1641; Westfield,

Sandwich, 1630; Suckanasset, 1670; 1669; West Springfield, 1774; Wilbra-

Truro, 1709; Wellfleet, 1763; Yarr^iouth. ham, 1763.

1639. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY — Amherst,

BERKSHIKE COUNTY — Adams, 1759; Belchertown, 1761; Chesterfield,

1778; Alford, 1773; Becket, 1765; Ches- 1762; Cummington, 1779; Easthampton,

shire, 1793; Clarksburg, 1798; Dalton. 1785; Goshen, 1781; Granby, 1768; Green-

1784; Egremont, 1760; Gagesborcugh. wich, 1754; Hadley, 1661; Hatfield, 1670;

1771; Great Barrington, 1761; Hancock. Middlefield, 1783; Northampton, 1656;

1776; Lanesborough, 1765; Lee, 1777; Norwich, 1773; Pelham, 1743; Plainfieid,

Lenox, 1767; Loudon, 1773; Mount 1785; Southampton, 1753; South Hadley,

Washington, 1779; New Ashford, 1781; 1783; Ware, 1761; Westhampton, 1775;

New Marlborough, 1759; Partridgefield, Williamsburg. 1771; Worthington, 1768.

1771; Pittsfield, 1771; Richmont, 1766; MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Acton, 1755;

Richmond, 1785; Sandisfield, 1762; Sav- Ashby, 1767; Bedford, 1729; Billerica,

oy, 1797; Sheffield, 1733; Stockbridge, 1655; Boxborough, 1783; Burlington,

1739; Tyringham, 1762; Washington, 1799; Cambridge, 1630; Carlisle, 1780;

1777; W. Stockbridge, 1774; William- Charlestown, 1630; Chelmsford, 1655;

town, 1765; Windsor, 1778. Concord, 1635; Dracut, 1702; Dunstable.

BRISTOL COUNTY ~ Attleboro, 1694; 1680; E. Sudbury, 1780; Farmingham,
Berkley, 1735; Dartmouth, 1652; Digh- 1675; Groton, 1655; Holliston, 1724; Hop-
ton, 1712; Easton, 1725; Freetown, 1683; kinston, 1715; Lexington, 1713; Littleton,
Mansfield, 1770; New Bedford, 1787; 1715; Maiden, 1649; Marlborough, 1660;
Norton, 1710; Raynham, 1731; Reho- Medford, 1630; Natick, 1661; Newton,
bath, 1645; Somerset, 1790; Swansea, 1691; Pepperell, 1733; Reading, 1644;
1668; Taunton, 1639; Westport, 1787. Sherburn, 1674; Shirley, 1753; Stone-

DUKES COUNTY — Chilmark, 1695; ham, 1725; Stow, 1683; Studbury,

Edgartown, 1671; Tisbury, 1671, orig. 1639; Tewksbury, 1734; Townsend,

Middletowne. 1732; Tynesborough, 1732; Waltham,

ESSEX COUNTY — Amesbury, 1668, 1738; Waltertown, 1630; Westford, 1729;

name ch. fr. Salisbury-new-town; And- Weston, 1713; Wilmington, 1730; Woburn,

over, 1646; Beverly, 1668; Boxford, 1642.

•1694; Bradford, 1675; Danvers, 1752; NANTUCKET COUNTY, Orig. 1695

Gloucester, 1642; Hamilton, 1793; Hav- (Island). Nantucket, 1795; Sherburn.

erhill, 1641; Ipswick, 1634; Lynn, 1637; 1687.

Lynnfield, 1782; Manchester, 1645; NORFOLK COUNTY — Bellingham.

Marblehead, 1633; Methuen, 1725; Mid- 1719; Braintree, 1640; Brookline, 1705;

dletown, 1728; Newbury, 1635; New- Canton, 1797; Cohasset, 1700; Dedham,

MASSACHUSETTS

County Map of Massachusetts

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

1636; Dorchester, 1630; Dover, 1784;
Foxsborough, 1778; Franklin, 1778;
Medfield, 1650; Medway, 1713; Milton,
1652; Needham, 1711; Quincy, 1792;
Randolph, 1793; Roxbury, 1630; Sharon,
1783; Stoughton, 1726; Stoughtonham,
1765; Walpole, 1724; W. Roxbury, 1772;
Weymouth, 1635; Wrentham, 1673.

PLYMOUTH COUNTY — Abington,
1712; Bridgewater. 1656; Carver, 1790;
Duxbury, 1637; Halifax, 1734; Hanover,
1727; Hingham, 1635; Hull, 1644; King-
ston, 1726; Marshfield, 1642; Middle-
borough, 1669; Pembroke, 1712; Ply-
mouth, 1620; Plympton, 1707; Rexhame.
1642, name ch. to Marshfield. Rochester,
1686; Scituate, 1633; Wareham, 1739.

SUFFOLK COUNTY — Boston, 1630;
Chelsea, S. 1739.

WORCESTER COUNTY — Ashburn-
ham, 1765; Athol, 1762; Barre, 1776;

Berlin, 1784; Bolton, 1738; Boyleston,
1786; Brookfield, 1673; Charlton, 1755:
Douglas, 1746; Dudley, 1732; Fitchburg,
1764; Gardner, 1785; Gerry, 1786; Graf-
ton, 1735; Hardwick, 1739; Harvard,
1732; Holden, 1741; Hubbardtown, 1767;
Hutchinson, 1774; Lancaster, 1653; Lei-
cester, 1713; Leominster, 1740; Lun-
enberg, 1728; Mendon, 1667; Milford.
1780; New Braintree, 1751; New Sher-
burn, 1745; Northborough, 1766; North-
bridge, 1772; Oakham, 1693; Oxford,
1693; Paxton, 1765; Petersham, 1754;
Princeton, 1759; Royalston, 1765; Rut-
land, 1714; Shrewsbury, 1720; South-
borough, 1727; Spencer, 1753; Sterling,
1781; Sturbridge, 1738; Sutton, 1714;
Templeton, 1762; Upton, 1735; Ux-
bridge, 1727; Westborough, 1717; West-
ern, 1742; Westminister, 1759; Winch-
enden, 1754; Worcester, 1684.

Nai

Barnstable B3

Berkshire E2

iBristol

Dukes

Essex

B4
CI

Franklin E2
Hampden E3
Hampshire E2
2Middlesex C2
Nantucket A4
sNorfolk
Plymouth
Suffolk*
Worcester

C2
C3
C2
D2

Massachusetts County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Parent County

County Seat

1685 47

1761 133

1685 382

1695 6

1643 522

1811 53

1812 368
1662 88
1643 1065
1695 3
1793 392
1685 189
1643 897
1731 546

1790-80
1790-80
1790-80
1790-80
1790-80

1790-80
1820-80
1790-80
1790-80
1790-80
1800-80
1790-80
1790-80
1790-80

Middlesex Barnstable

Hampshire Pittsfeild

Middlesex New Bedford, Fall River

(Martha's Vineyard) Edgartown

Original county Lawrence, Newbury-

port, Salem

Hampshire Greenfield

Hampshire Springfield

Middlesex Northampton

Original county Cambridge, Lowell

Formerly in N. Y Nantucket

Suffolk Dedham

Suffolk Plymouth

Original county Boston

Suffolk Fitchburg, Worcester

Unlike most other states, in Massachusetts some counties have two county seats.
For example in:

^Bristol County, Taunton has all the old records as well as those to date for the
northern part of the county, while the present records for the southern part of
the county are at Fall River.

2Middlesex County the records from about 1890 or 1895 for the northern part of the
county are at Lowell, while all the county records from 1643 to 1890 or 1895, and
then up to the present for the southern part of the county are at East Cambridge.
sNorfolk County originally was part of the northeastern section of Massachusetts
and some towns at present part of New Hampshire. The old records are now at
Salem in Essex County which originally included most of Norfolk County.

*Part of 1800 Census missing.

Michigan

Capital, Lansing

Like the Spaniards, the French had been established in the territory,
little interest in America only to the In 1837 Michigan became the twenty-
extent of securing immediate wealth, sixth state in the Union.
They had little or no interest in colon- By 1840 immigration had increased
izing the country and getting its wealth to such an extent that about half of
through the productive power of its the southern peninsula was cultivated
soil. by eager land-seekers who had come

For some time after France obtained from New York, the New England
possession of American territory, a con- section, and from Germany,
siderable outpost had been maintain- A fifty year boom, from 1840 to 1890,
ed at Detroit. This regime came to an attracted tens of thousands of work-
end in 1763. Michigan then became ers into the lumber camps and the min-
part of Quebec territory, under which ing camps of Michigan, where they ex-
jurisdiction it remained for twenty tracted the valuable and plentiful cop-
years, per and iron ores from the rich min-

It was in 1783 that it was again un- eral deposits of the state,
der the claim of America. For a short To secure the needed man-power to
time, the Indians, egged on by the British, work these rich deposits men were in-
inflicted considerable damage to the duced to come there from Canada, Ire-
Americans in that section. This ended land, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Wales,
about 1795 when American troops under Poland, Italy and England. The tin
the command of General Anthony Wayne mines of Cornwall, England, trans-
cleaned up the situation by herding planted hundreds of expert miners into
the Indians farther west. the Michigan mining camps.

From 1787 until 1800 the Michigan Also during that time large groups
section was part of the Northwest Ter- of religious refugees from Holland set-
ritory, and from 1800 to 1805 it was tied around Grand Rapids and the west-
connected with the Ohio and the In- ern coast of the state.
dian Territories. But the real influx of emigrants came

Although the first American settlers around 1900 with the beginning of the

began coming to Michigan from New auto industry. Hundreds of thousands,

England about 1796, it was not until attracted by the large wages paid at

about twenty-two years later that any the auto plants, converted Detroit al-

appreciable influx of settlers was noted, most over night into one of the most im-

Many came in 1818 to participate in portant industrial centers in the world,

the first public land sales. The com- As a result, half of the nearly seven

mencing of work on the Erie Canal million people inhabiting Michigan live

in that year drew many New England- in Wayne County, while the population

ers to the Michigan sections. The com- of the other eighty-two Michigan count-

pletion of that important canal in 1825 ies ranged from three thousand in Oscoda

added new stimula to the migrations. County to 288,000 in Kent County, with

That same year many came to work Grand Rapids as the county seat. Thir-

on the road construction headed to- teen of Michigan's counties have popula-

ward Chicago. tions exceeding one hundred thousand.

With the construction of the territor- Michigan's population is 6,371,766, the

ial road through the Kalamazoo Valley seventh largest of any state in the Union,

in 1829, many New Englanders estab- Of these 70.7 per cent live in cities, 29.3

lished themselves in the Jackson, Cal- per cent in rural areas. Among the

houn, Kalamazoo, and Allegan counties, largest cities are Detroit, 1,849,568;

The following year saw the Saginaw Grand Rapids, 176,516; Flint, 163,143;

Valley, including the counties of Shia- Dearborn, 94,994; Saginaw, 92,918; Lan-

wassee, Saginaw and Bay, beginning to sing 92,129.

fill up with permanent residents. The Birth, marriage, and death records be-

growth had been so constant and rapid fore 1867 are handled by the Clerk of

during the first years of the new cen- the Circuit Court where incident oc-

tury that by 1836 fourteen counties had cured. Since then at the State Depart-

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

ment of Health, Lansing, Michigan. The
Clerk of the Probate Court supervises
all court records, such as wills, and
probate matters. The Register of Deeds
of each county handles all matters per-
taining to land titles.

For available census records see the
section headed, "Michigan County His-
tories."

The Detroit Society for Genealogical
Research, % Burton Historical Collection,
Detroit Public Library, Detroit 2, Mich.,
publish the Detroit Society for Gene-
alogical Research Magazine which start-
ed as a monthly but later changed to a
bimonthly. Inquiries on Michigan history
and genealogy may be sent to the ad-
dress above.

Following is a partial list of Michigan
libraries:

Ann Arbor, (Washtenaw), University
of Michigan, William L. Clements Li-
brary, South University Ave., (early
state histories); Cadillacv (Wexford),
Public Library; County Library, Shel-
by St.; Detroit, (Wayne), Public Li-
brary, 5201 Woodward Ave., (historical
collections); Wayne County Public Li-
brary, 3661 Trumbull; Flint, (Genesee),
Public Library, E. Kearsley & Clifford
Sts. ; County Library; Grand Rapids,
(Kent), Public Library, 111. Library St.,
(state history, genealogical collection);
County Public Library, 1961 Godfrey
Ave., SW; Lansing, (Ingham), Public
Library, 210 W. Shiawassee St.; State
Library, State Office Bldg.; Wyandotte,
(Wayne), Bacon Memorial Public Li-
brary, 2613 Biddle Ave., (local history).

Michigan County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Alcona

1869

1860-80

Alger

1885

Allegan

1835

1840-80

Alpena

1857

1860-80

Antrim

1843

1860-80

Arenac

1883

Baraga

1875

1880

Barry

1839

1840-80

Bay

1857

1860-80

Benzie

1869

1870-80

Berrien

1829

116

1830-80

Branch

1829

1840-80

Calhoun

1829

121

1840-80

Cass

1829

1830-80

Charlevoix

1869

1870-80

Cheboygan

1840

I860- SO

Chippewa

1826

1830-80

Clare

1871

1870-80

Clinton

1839

1850-80

Crawford

1818

1820-80

Delta

1861

1860-80

Des Moines

1834

Dickinson

1891

Eaton

1829
-1837

1840-80

Emmett

1853

1860-80

Genesee

1836

271

1840-80

Gladwin

1855

1860-80

Gogebic

1881

Grand

Travers

1851

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Alpena Harrisville

Schoolcraft Munising

Kalamazoo Allegan

Presque Isle Alpena

Cheboygan Bellaire

Bay Standish

Houghton L'Anse

Eaton Hastings

Saginaw, Midland Bay City

Manistee, Traverse Beulah

Indian Lands St. Joseph

St. Joseph Coldwater

Indian Lands Marshall

Indian Lands Cassopolis

Manitou Otsego Charlevoix

Antrim, Unorganized Terr Cheboygan

Mackinac Sault Ste. Marie

Isabella Harrison

Shiawssee St. Johns

Original county Grayling

Schoolcraft Escanaba

Disorganized

Marquette Iron Mountain

Kalamazoo Charlotte

Mackinac Petoskey

Oakland Flint

Unorganized Territory Gladwin

Ontonagon Bessemer

Traverse, Antrim Traverse City

MICHIGAN

Name

Map
Index

Date Pop.

Formed By M

1855 33

1835 32
1845 40
1840 33
1859

1838 173

1837 38

1857 11

1885 18

1831 29

1832 108
1829 127
1871 5

1836 288
1861 3

Gratiot E3

Hillsdale F3

Houghton Bl

Huron E4
Organized

Ingham F3

Ionia E3

Iosco D4

Iron Bl

Isabella E3

Jackson F3

Kalamazoo F2

Kalkaska D3

Kent E2

Keweenaw Al

Lake D2 1871 5

Lapeer E4 1835 36

Leelanau D2 1863 9

Lenawee F3 1822 65

Livingston F3 lo36 27

Luce B3 1887 8

Mackinac C3 1818 9

Macomb F4 1818 185

Manistee D2 1855 19

Marquette Bl 1851 48

Mason D2 1855 20

Mecosta E3 1859 19

Menominee CI 1863 25

Midland E3 1850 36

Missaukee D3 1871 7

Monroe F4 1817 76

Montcalm E3 1831 31

Montmorency D3 1881 4

Muskegon E2 1859 122

Newaygo E2 1851 22

Oakland F4 1819 396

Oceana E2 1855 16

Ogemaw D3 1875 9

Ontonagon A3 1848 10

Osceola D3 1867 14

Oscoda D3 1869 3

Otsego D3 1875 6

Ottawa E2 1837 74

Presque Isle C4 1871 12

Roscommon D3 1875 6

Saginaw E3 1835 154

St. Clair E4 1822 92

St. Joseph F2 1828 35

Sanilac E4 1848 31

Schoolcraft B2 1848 9

Shiawassee E3 1822 46

Tuscola E4 1850 38

Van Buren F2 1837 39

Washtenaw F3 1826 135

Wayne F4 1815 2435

Wexford D2 1830 19

Census
Reports
Available

1860-80
1840-80
1850-80
1850-80

1840-80
1830-80
1860-80

1860-80
1840-80
1840-80
1870-80
1840-80
1870-80
1870-80
1840-80
1860-80
1830-80
1840-80

1820-80
1820-80
1880-80
1860-80
1850-80
1860-80
1870-80
1850-80
1870-80

1820-80
1850-80

1860-80

1850-80

1820-80

1840-80

1880

1850-80

1860-80

1870-80

1880

1840-80

1860-80

1880

1840-80

1830-80

1850-80

1840-80

1850-80

1830-80

1820-80

1870-80

Parent County County Seat

Saginaw Ithaca

Lenawee Hillsdale

Schoolcraft Houghton

Sanilac, Tuscola Bad Axe

Unorganized Territory Mason

Unorganized Territory Ionia

Originally Kanotin Tawas City

Marquette Crystal Falls

Unorganized Territory Mt. Pleasant

Washtenaw Jackson

St. Joseph Kalamazoo

Crawford Kalkaska

Unorganized Territory .... Grand Rapids

Houghton Eagle River

Osceola Baldwin

St. Clair Lapeer

Grand Traverse Leland

Indian Lands Adrian

Shiawassee Howe-ll

Chippewa Newberry

Original county St. Igr.ace

Original county Mt. Clemens

Wexford Manistee

Schoolcraft Marquette

Newaygo Ludington

Isabella Big Rapids

Marquette Menominee

Saginaw Midland

From unorganized lands in 1840,

reorganized in 1871 Lake City

Original county Monroe

Isabella Stanton

Alpena Atlanta

Newaygo Muskegon

Unorganized Territory White Cloud

Original county Pontiac

Newaygo Hart

Ionia West Branch

Houghton Ontonagon

Missaukee, Mecosta Reed City

Unorganized lands Mio

Unorganized lands Gaylord

Allegan Grand Haven

Unorganized lands Rogers

Crawford Roscommon

Unorganized lands Saginaw

Original county Port Huron

Indian lands Centerville

St. Clair Sandusky

From Upper Peninsula Manistique

Indian lands Corunna

Sanilac Caro

Indian lands Paw Paw

Original county Ann Arbor

Original county Detroit

Originally "Kautawaufet"

changed 1868 Cadillac

78 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

County Map of Michigan

Minnesota

Capital, St. Paul

Minnesota, with its more than ten special enumeration, was taken in Min-

thousand lakes, began to attract sturdy nesota in 1857, followed by the regular

Scandinavian settlers to its borders 1860 census. In 53 of her 87 counties

shortly after 1851 when the land west the 1870 census reports are missing,

of the Mississippi was procured from the These counties are indicated in the "Min-

Indians. Several years prior to that, nesota County Histories", which follows.

Yankees from the east and north-east, Birth and death records before 1900

largely from Maine, had been pulled and all marriage records are in thG

there by its infant lumber industry, which offices of the clerks of the District Court

in succeeding decades drew thousands in the respective counties. The birth and

to its borders. When the Scandinavian death records after 1900 are in the

influx began, it is estimated that less office of State Department of Health,

than 5,000 persons lived in the terri- Division of Birth and Death Records,

tory. 469 State Office Bldg., St. Paul 1, Minn.

The earliest white people to visit the Records of wills, and all probate of

section were the Catholic missionaries estates are in the office of the clerk

and fur traders. Chief among the mis- of the Probate Court in the county

sionaries was Father Hennepin who has court house, while the records of deeds

been honored by having a county and and mortgages are handled by the reg-

one of the main streets in Minneapolis ister of deeds in the county seat,

named after him. He came there about Books which may help you in your re-

1680 and floated down the Mississippi .search are;

in a canoe. Holcombe, Maj. R. I. and Bingham.

When the northern iron mines began William H.. Compendium of History and Bi-

to be developed in the 1880's. Finns and ography of Minneapolis and Hennepin Coun-

Slavs came there by the tens of thous- ty Minnesota. Pub. 1914. Henry Taylor 6

ands. Poland, Lithuania and the Bal- Co. Minneapolis.

kans furnished much of the labor for History of Steele and Wasega Counties,

the rapidly growing packing plants Minnesota. Pub. 1887 Union Publishing Co.,

around the Twin cities at the beginning Chicago, being an album of history and

of the present century. biography, embracing sketche.s of the vil-

The progenitors of the present Minne- lages. cities and townships, portraits of

sota generation came mainly from Swe- prominent citizens, old setders. etc.

den, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Can- Some of the libraries of Minnesota

ada, Finland, Poland and Russia. which may give you assistance in you.^

Minnesota became an organized terri- search of that area are:
tory on March 3, 1849, and a state, the Minneapolis, (Hennepin), Public Li-
thirty-second in the Union, May 11, 1858. brary. 1001 Hennepin Ave. (Scandinavian
The 1950 census showed a population and local history) ; Northfield, (Rice). St.
of 2,982,483, a little less than 200.000 Olaf College, Rolvaag Memorial Library,
more than in the previous census. Both (Norwegian collections); St. Paul, (Ram-
01 those census ratings placed Minnesota sey), Minnesota Historical Society Li-
as the eighteenth ranking state in the brary, (Minnesota. West. Northwest, Ca-
Union. nadian collections, biography, genealogy.

The largest cities in Minnesota are local history, Scandinavian-Americans);

Minneapolis, 521.718; St. Paul, 311,349; Public Library 4th & Washington Sts.;

Duluth, 104,511; Rochester. 29,885; St. St. Peter, (Nicollet). Gustavus Adolphus

Cloud 28,410. College. Folke Bernadotte Memorial Li-

The first United States Census, a brary, (Swedish collections).

Minnesota County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

(it'lV^UJ

Map Date Pop. Ri;ports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Scat

Aitkin D3 1873 14 *1860-80 Cass, Itasca Aitkin

Anoka E3 1869 36 *1857-80 Hennepin Anoka

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.

By ^

Becker

1871

Beltrami

1870

Benton

1849

Big Stone

1862

Blue Earth

1853

Brown

1855

Carlton

Carver

1855

Cass

1851

Chippewa

1869

Chisago

1851

Clay

1862

Clearwater

1903

Cook

1875

Cottonwood

Crow Wing

1881

Dakota

1849

Dodge

1855

Douglas

1881

Faribault

1855

Fillmore

1853

Freeborn

1856

Goodhue

1853

Grant

1873

Hennepin

1851

677

Houston

1854

Hubbard

1883

Isanti

1857

Itasca

1851

Jackson

1869

Kanabec

1881

Kandiyohi

Kittson

1879

Koochiching

1907

Lac Qui

Parle

1863

Lake

1855

Lake of the

Woods

Le Sueur

1853

Lincoln

1873

Lyon

1871

McLeod

1883

Mahnomen

1878

Marshall

1878

Martin

1865

Meeker

Mille Lacs

1905

Morrison

1883

Mower

1875

Murray

1872

Nicollet

1853

Nobles

1871

Norman

1881

Olmsted

1855

Otter Tail

Pennington

1910

Pine

1857

Pipestone

1879

Census
Reports

Available Parent County County Seat

*1860-80 Indian Lands Detroit Lakes

1880 Unorganized Territory Bemidji

*1850-80 Original county Foley

1880 Pierce Ortonville

*1857-80 Unorganized Territory Mankato

*1857-80 Nicollett New Ulm

*1857-80 Pine Carlton

*1857-80 Hennepin Chaska

*1857-80 Original county Walker

*1880 Pierce Montevideo

*1857-80 Washington Center City

*1880 Breckinridge Moorhead

Beltrami Bagley

1880 Lake Grand Marais

*1857-80 Brown Windom

*1857-80 Cass, Aitkin Brainerd

*1857-80 Original county Hastings

*1857-80 Olmstead Mantorville

*1860-80 Todd Alexandria

*1857-80 Blue Earth Blue Earth

*1857-80 Original county Preston

*1857-80 Albert Lea

*1857-80 Wabasha Red Wing

1880 Stearns Elbow Lake

*1857-80 Original county Minneapolis

*1857-80 Fillmore Caledonia

Cass Park Rapids

*1857-80 Anoka Cambridge

*1850-80 Original county Grand Rapids

*1857-80 Unorganized Territory Jackson

*1860-80 Pine Mora

*1860-80 Meeker Willmar

Unorganized Territory Hallock

Itasca International Falls

*1880 Formerly Toombs Madison

*1857-80 Formerly Doty Two Harbors

Baudette

*1857-80 Unorganized Territory Le Center

1880 Lyon Ivanhoe

1880 Redwood Marshall

*1857-80 Carver Glencoe

1857-60 Becker Mahnomen

Kittson Warren

*1857-80 Faribault Fairmont

*1857-80 Wright Litchfield

Kanabec Milaca

*1857-80 Benton, Stearns Little Falls

*1857-80 Fillmore Austin

*1857-80 Lyon Slayton

*1857-80 Unorganized Territory Saint Peter

*1857-80 Jackson Worthington

Polk Ada

*1857-80 Unorganized Territory Rochester

*1860-80 Pembina, Cass Fergus Falls

Red Lake Thief River Falls

*1857-80 Unorganized Lands Pine City

*1857-80 Murray Pipestone

MINNESOTA

County Map of Minnesota

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census

Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Availabls Parent County County Seat

Polk CI 1879 36 *1860-80 Indian Lands Crookston

Pope D2 1862 13 *1880 Pierce Glenwood

Ramsey E3 1849 355 *1850-80 Original county Saint Paul

Red Lake Bl 1897 7 Polk Red Lake Falls

Redwood E2 1862 22 *1880 Brown Redwood Falls

Renville E2 1855 24 *1857-80 Unorganized Territory Olivia

Rice E3 1853 36 *1857-80 Original county Faribault

Rock Fl 1870 11 *1857-80 Nobles as Unorg. county Luverne

Roseau Bl 1895 15 Kittson Roseau

Saint Louis C3 1855 206 *1857-80 Doty (now Lake) Duluth

Scott E3 1869 16 *1857-80 Dakota Shakopee

Sherburne E3 11 *1857-80 Anoka Elk River

Sibley E2 1853 16 *1857-80 Unorganized Territory Gaylord

Stearns D2 1855 71 1857-80 Indian Lands Saint Cloud

Steele F3 1855 21 1857-80 Unorganized Territory Owatonna

Stevens Dl 1862 11 1870-80 Pierce Morris

Swift El 1860 16 1870-80 Chippewa. Unorg. Lands Benson

Todd D2 1856 25 1857-80 Stearns Long Prairie

Traverse Dl 1862 8 1870-80 Toombs Wheaton

Wabasha F4 1849 17 1850-80 Original county Wabasha

Wadena D2 1858 13 1870-80 Cass, Todd Wadena

Waseca F3 1857 15 1857-80 Steele Waseca

Washington E3 1860 35 1850-80 Original county Stillwater

Watonwan F2 1860 14 1870-80 Brown Saint James

Wilkin Dl 1872 11 1870-80 Cass Breckenridge

Winona F4 1854 40 1857-80 Unorganized Territory Winona

Wright E3 1855 28 1857-80 Hennepin Buffalo

Yellow

Medicine El 1872 16 1880 Redwood Granite Falls

Census returns are also available from the following discontinued Minnesota

counties: Breckenridge, 1860; Buchanan, 1857, 1860; Mankahta, 1850; Monongalia,

1860; Pembina, 1850, 1857, 1860, 1870; Pierce, 1857, 1860; Toombs, 1860; Wahnata,
1850.

(In the census column in all counties marked (*) the 1870 report is missing.)

Mississippi

Capital, Jackson

French and Spanish adventurers, less
interested in establishing homes in the
New World but more eager to find
easy-to-get wealth to take back home
with them to their native countries,
came to the Mississippi regions in the
fifteen hundreds. They didn't stay long
and left few if any visible evidences of
their sojourn here.

When hostilities between the American
colonies and the Mother Country reach-
ed the stage where an armed conflict
became necassary, large numbers of
Tories of the New England section, un-
willing to participate in the forced resis-
tance, moved their families to the Missis-
sippi section. They established themselves

in the so-called Natches district, es-
tablishing plantations around Vicks-
burg. Port Gibson and Natchez. It was
through these wealthy landowners that
the large slave-operated plantations
came into existance.

Prior to that time, small groups of
German and Swiss farmers had been in-
duced by the French to take up acre-
ages in the territory.

In 1798 when the Territory of Missis-
sippi was formed from the western sec-
tion of what was then Georgia, it in-
cluded what later became the Territory
of Alabama. Shortly after that Terri-
tory had been formed, Mississippi be-
came a state on December 10, 1817.

MISSISSIPPI

At the completion of the Louisiana
Purchase in 1803 thousands of settlers
rushed into Mississippi for the available
new land. Many of these land seekers
were former residents of New England
communities and some of the Southern
States along the Atlantic Coast.

Another tremendous migration into
Mississippi, sometimes likened to the
1849 gold rush into California, came in
a four year period ending in 1837 when
the last of the Indian lands in Missis-
sippi had been opened for settlement.
Most of those acquiring this land came
from the eastern section of the nation.

Most of the European settlers of Mis-
sissippi came from Germany, England,
Greece, Ireland, Italy and Yugoslavia.
Many Mexicans and Canadians are also
among those who have establisned
homes in the state.

In 1950 the population of Mississippi
was 2,178,914, about 6,000 less than
in the 1940 census. In that ten year
period it had gone from the twenty-
third to the twenty-sixth rank in popu-
lation. About half of the population
of the state is of the white race.

With about half of the population
in Mississippi living in the rural sec-
tions, the cities of necessity must be
small in comparison to those in in-
dustrial areas. Its largest cities are Jack-
son, 98,271; Meridian, 41,893; Biloxi,
37,425; Greenville, 29,936; Hattiesburg,
29,474.

Mississippi is divided into 82 counties.
The first U. S. Census was taken \n
the state in 1800, but that census and
that of 1810 are missing. The available
census reports for the respective coun-
ties are indicated in the "Mississpipi
County Histories."

A communication from the assistant
secretary of the Mississippi State Board
of Health says, "There are very few
sources of genealogical information in
this state. Our Bureau of Vital Statis-
tics was established only on November
1, 1912 for keeping records of births
and deaths. Marriage records were au-
thorized to be kept by our Bureau in
1926. Our State Department of Archives
and History, War Memorial Bldg., Jack-
son, Mississippi, has some Civil War re-
cords, but we are not so positive as
to how much information can be furnish-
ed by them. Outside of these sources I
do not know of any other organization
which has any records of this kind."

Incomplete birth and death records

prior to 1912 are available in some
counties at the office of the county
clerk, where marriage records before
1926 also may be available. Wills, pro-
bate files and records of deeds and mort-
gages are in the office of the clerk of
the Court of Chancery.

In several Mississippi counties the
date of their formation doesn't necessar-
ily coincide with the date of the avail-
able records. Some counties have val-
uable genealogical information dating
way back earlier than their organization,
while in other counties the records on
file are of a much later date. Mrs.
Margaret Scruggs Carruth, 3715 Turtle
Creek Boulevard, Dallas 4, Texas, one
of the leading Southern researchers has
given the following list of counties and
the starting dates of their records,
which you will note, are entirely differ-
ent than their organization dates: Al-
corn, 1842; Attala, 1870; Calhoun, Dec.
22, 1922; Chickasaw, 1863; Forest
(formed 1906), 1876; Green, 1875; Jack-
son, 1875; Jasper, 1932; Kemper, 1912;
Newton, 1876; Neshola, 1836; Panola,
1870 (newspaper files since 1840); Tish-
amingo, 1877; Wayne, 1892. Mrs. Car-
ruth also says, "Since the Mississippi
law forbids county clerks or anyine
employed in their offices to do any
research work, it is of no use to con-
tact any of them by letter.'^

The Evans Memorial Library, Aber-
deen, Miss., has a collection of tens
of thousands of manuscripts, old church
records, account books, letters, etc., all
indexed in a card file. This is their an-
nouncement:

"The Manuscript Division of the Evans
Memorial Library is inaugurating a
"March of Monroe County Families".
The object of this is to have every fam-
ily represented with a collection of man-
uscript material in the files. By Manu-
script is meant old letters, land grants,
bills, paroles, clippings, diaries, account
books, copied Bible records, scrapbooks,
bulletins, old music, newspapers etc. A
collection can be two, two hundred or
two thousand! Yes, we have some family
collections containing over 2,000! The
Gifts will be recorded, then placed in
manila folders labeled with the family
name which the donor prefers, then
placed in locked steel filing cabinets.
Authors, historians, research people who
come to the library, study these mater-
ials for facts, descriptions, dates, names,
etc., needed in their writing about the

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

South. From time to time, certain items
are placed on display in the locked mus-
eum case. These materials are never
checked out but are used in the library.

"This 'March' begins March 1, and
closes June 1. These materials on our
Southland are being burned, misplaced
lost. Your library wants to help preserve
bits of your heritage for your country,
lor you. Let your families be represented
v/on't you?"

Other Mississippi libraries:

Jackson, (Hinds). Carnegie Public Li-
brary. 323 N. Congress St.; Meridian.

(Lauderdale), City and County Public
Library. 628 25th Ave.

Books which have been published by gene-
alogical and historical researchres may as-
sist you in your Mississippi research:

Hendricks, Mary Louise Flowers. Mis-
sissippi Court Records from the Files ot ihc
High Court ol Errors and Appeals. 1799-
1559. Pub. 1950.

Welch. Alice Tracy, Family Records
Mississippi Revolutionary Soldiers. Pub.
1953-56 by The Mississippi Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
State Board of Management.

Mississippi County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Name

Adamfr

Alcorn

Amite

Attala

Benton

Bolivar

Calhoun

Carroll

Chickasaw

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Parent County

County Seat

Coahoma

Colfax

Copiah

Covington

DeSoto

Forest

Franklin

George

Greene

Grenada

Issaquena

Itawamba

Jackson

Jasper

Jefferson

El
A4
El
C3
A3
Bl
B3
B2
B3

Choctaw C3

Claiborne Dl

Clarke D4

Clay B4

D2
E3
A2
E3
El
F4
E4
B2

Hancock F3

Harrison F3

Hinds D2

Holmes C2

Humphreys C2

A4
F4
D3
El

1799
1870
1809
1833
1870
1836
1852
1833
1836

1836
1871
1823
1819
1836
1906
1809
1910
1811
1870

27
19
27
9
63
18
15
19

1833 11

1802 12

1833 19

1871 18

30
16
25
45
11
10
8
19

1812 12

1841 84

1821 142

1833 33

1918 23

1844 5

1836 17

1812 31

1833 19

1799 11

1820-80

1870-80

1820-80

1840-80

1880

1840-80

1860-80

1840-80

1840-80
1820-80
1840-80
1880

49 1840-30

1820-80
1820-80
1840-80

1820-80

1820-80
1870-80

1820-80
1850-80
1830-80
18 10-80

1850-80
1840-80
1820-80
1840-80
1820-80

Natchez District Natchez

Tippaw. Tishomingo Corinth

Wilkinson Liberty

Choctaw Cession Kosciusko

Marshall. Tippah Ashland

Choctaw Cession .... Rosedale, Cleveland

Lafayette Pittsboro

Choctaw Cession Carrollton-Valden

Chickasaw Cession

of 1832 Houston-Okolona

Chickasaw Session of 1832 .... Ackerman

Jefferson Port Gibson

Choctaw Cession Quitman

Chickasaw, Lowndes. Monroe,

Oktibbeha West Point

Chickasaw Cession 1836 Clarksdale

Name changed to Clay, 1876

Hinds Hazelhurst

Lawrence, Wayne Collins

Indian Lands Hernando

Perry Hattiesburg

Adams Meadville

Greene, Jackson Lucedale

Amita. Franklin. Wayne Leakesville

Carrol, Yalobusha. Choctaw,

Talahatchie Grenada

Mobile District Bay St. Louis

Hancock. Jackson Gulfport

Choctow Cession, 1820 .. Jackson-Raymond

Yazoo Lexington

Holmes, Washington, Yazoo,

Sunflower Belzoni

Washington Mayersville

Chickasaw Cession, 1832 Fulton

Mobile District Pascagoula

Indian Lands Bay Springs, Paulding

Natchez, originally Pickering .... Fayette

MISSISSIPPI

Name

Map
Index

Date Pop.
Formed By M

E2
E3
C4
A3
E3

Davis
Jones
Kemper
Lafayette
Lamar
Lauderdale D4
Lawrence E2
Leake C3

Lee A4

Leflore B2

Lincoln

Lowndes

Madison

Marion

Marshall

Monroe

Montgomery B3

Neshoba C3

Newton

Noxubee

Oktibbeha

Panola

E2
C4
C2
E2
A3
B4

D3
C4
B4
A2

Pearl River F3

Perry

Pike

Pontotoc

Prentiss

Quitman

Rankin

Scott

Sharkey

E3
E2
A3
A4
A2
D2
D3
C2

Simpson D2

Smith D3

Stone F3

Sunflower B2
Tallahatchie B2

Tate A2

Tippah A3

Tishomingo A4

Tunica A2

Union A3

Walthall E2

Warren D2

Washington CI

Wayne E4

Webster B3

1906
1826
1833
1836
1904
1833
1814
1833
1866
1871

1870
1830
1828
1811
1836
1821
1871
1833
1836
1833
1833
1836
1890
1820
1815
1836
1870
1877
1828
1833
1876

1824
1833
1916
1844
1833

1873
1836
1836
1836
1870
1914
1809
1827
1809
1871

Wilkinson El 1802
Winston C3 1833
Yalobusha B3 1833

Yazoo C2 1823
U. S. Census Note:

16
57
16

13
64
13
22
38
52

28
38
34
24
25
37
14
26
23
20
25
31
21
9
35
20
20
26
29
22
13

22
17
6
56
30

18
18
16
22
20
16
40
71
17
12

Census

Reports

Available

1830-80
1840-80

Parent County

County Scat

Covington, Lawrence Prentiss

Covington, Wayne Ellisville, Laurel

Choctaw Cession, 1832 DeKalb

23 1840-80 Chickasaw Cession Oxford

Marion Purvis

1840-80 Choctaw Cession Meridian

1820-80 Marion Monticello

1840-80 Choctaw Cession Carthage

1870-80 Itawamba, Pontotoc Tupelo

1880 Carroll, Sunflower. Tallahatchie Green-

wood, Amite, Pike, Lawrence,

Franklin Brookhaven

Monroe Columbus

Yazoo Canton

Amite, Wayne, Franklin Columbia

Chickasaw Cession of 1832 .. Holly Springs

Chickasaw Cession 1821 Aberdeen

Carroll, Choctaw Winona

Choctaw Cession 1830 Philadelphia

Neshoba Decatur

Choctaw Cession 1830 Macon

Choctaw Cession 1830 Starkville

Chickasaw Cession 1832 .. Batesville, Sardis

Hancock Poplarville

Greene New Augusta

Marion Magnolia

Chickasaw Cession of 1832 .... Pontotoc

Tishomingo Booneville

Panola, Coahoma Marks

Hinds Brandon

Choctaw Cession, 1832 Forest

Warren, Washington,

Issaquena Rolling Fork

Choctaw Cession of 1820 .... Mendenhall

Choctaw Cession of 1820 Raleigh

Harrison Wiggins

Bolivar Indianola

Choctaw Cession

of 1820 Charleston. Sumner

Marshall, Tunica Senatobia

Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Ripley

Chickasaw Cession of 1832 luka

Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Tunica

Pontotoc, Tippah New Albany

Marion, Pike Tylertown

Natchez District Vicksburg

Warren, Yazoo Greenville

Washington Waynesboro

Montgomery, Chickasaw, Choctaw,
Oktibbeha, (originally Summer,

name changed 1882) Walthall

Adams Woodville

Choctaw Cession of 1830 Louisville

Choctaw Cession

'30 Coffeyville, Water Valley

Hinds Yazoo City

1810 census reports are missing.

1870-80

1830-80

1820-80

1840-80

1820-80

1880

1840-80

1820-80

1840-80

1870-80

1880

1830-80

1840-80

1880

1830-80
1840-80

1850-80
1840-80

1880

1840-80

1880

1820-80
1820-80
1820-80
1880

14 1820-80
22 1840-80

15 1840-80

36 1830-80

The 1800 and

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

County Map of Mississippi

Missouri

Capital, Jefferson City

If you'll look at a map of the United From 1682 until 1803 control over the

States, you'll notice that Missouri is in Missouri section was passed back and

a peculiar position or relationship to the forth between France and Spain, In

rest of the nation. Kansas City, Mo., the Louisiana Purchase consumated in

for instance, is about equidistant from 1803 ownership passed into the hands of

Washington, D.C. and Salt Lake City, the United States.

Utah. Two states lie between Missouri In 1805 Missouri became part of the

and the Canadian border, and two be- Territory of Louisiana and remained so

tween Missouri and the Gulf of Mexico, until 1812 when it became a Territory

The mileage between each of those ex- in its own name. At that time it claim-

treme points and Kansas City is also ed a population of 20,000, Most of its

about the same. For these reasons, it early settlers came from Kentucky and

has been said that Missouri belongs to Virginia, and some from North and

the east as well as the west, the north South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania,

as well as the south. and Tennessee. In those early days, In-

The Mississippi, five hundred miles dian tribes, enticed by the British, con-

of which is the eastern border of Mis- stantly scourged the Missouri settlers

souri, was first seen by a white man in in severe plundering raids. It was not

1541 when the Spanish explorer Her- until about 1815 that these raids were

nando or Fernando De Soto saw that halted through peace treaties with the

mighty river. It was 132 years later various Indian tribes within the terri-

that two French explorers, Marquette tory.

and Joliet, were the first to see the Missouri became a state in 1821. Then
Missouri river. Only nine years later, it had about 56,000 white settlers. She
in 1682, another French explorer, Ro- became the twenty-fourth state in the
bert Cavelier de La Salle, took posses- Union. At present she has 114 counties
sion of the section as part of Louisiana and one independent city, St, Louis,
and claimed it for France, A Catholic For many decades after 1830 a steady
mission was established on the present stream of European immigrants came
site of St, Louis about 1700. The first into the state, as a result of which St.
permanent Missouri settlement was es- Louis has a distinct German flavor,
tablished about 1750 by the French. Many Irish, English, Polish, Swiss, Bo-
It was located along the Mississippi hemian and Italian natives settled in
about 50 miles south of St. Louis and various parts of the state. In his "Cre-
was called Sainte Genevieve. oles of St. Louis," (1893), Paul Beck-

The first actual American settlement with does full justice to the early

in Missouri was in 1787 when one John French immigration, the so called Cre-

Dodge established himself in Ste. Gene- oles, the Chouteaus, Gratiots, Cabannes,

vieve County. He was followed there by Papins, Pauls, etc.

Israel Dodge in 1790, and three years Throughout the Civil War, numerous
later by Dr, Jesse Bryan, A John Moore skirmishes and bloody battles were
is said to have made his home in 1790 fought in Missouri which was one of
in what since then has become Perry the important battle grounds of the con-
County which borders Ste. Genevieve flict, keeping the population in constant
County on the southeast. In 1795 Amer- excitement and fear.

ican settlements were established on Missouri has 3,954,653 inhabitants,
Femme Osage creek in what is now which makes her the eleventh state in
St. Charles County, north of St. Louis, population. About 61.5% of the popula-
It was then called Upper Louisiana or tion live in cities, and 38.5% in the
New Spain. Authority for these state- farming regions. The largest cities in
ments comes from Pioneer Families of the state are St. Louis, 856,796; Kansas
Missouri," published in 1876 by Wm. S. City, 456,622; St. Joseph, 78,588; Spring-
Bryan and Robert Rose, and reprinted field, 66,731; University City, 39,892;
in 1935 with an introduction by W. W. Joplin, 38,711; Independence, 39,693.
Elwang. Birth and death dates after June 1,

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

1907, are obtainable at the State Bureau
of Vital Statistics, Jefferson City, Mis-
souri. Births and deaths from 1883 to
1891 may be obtained from the clerk
of the respective counties. Information
OH marriages from 1825 to date may
be had at the office of the Recorder of
Deeds in each county. In those offices
are also the records of deeds. Wills are
in the Probate Courts. Tax payer lists
are in the offices of the county assessors.
War .service records are under the care
of the Adjutant General at Jefferson
City, Mo. A law originating in 1863
makes it permissible for the Recorder
of Deeds in each county to file birth
information on request. The first death
recording began in St. Louis in 1841.

Many of the county court houses in
Missouri have been lost through fire.
With them were lost at the same time
many old records.

Among organizations and institutiors
able to give much genealogical informa-
tion are the Nancy Hunter Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
Cape Girardeau, Mo., Ann Haynes Chap-
ter, DAR. Kirksville, Mo., the Missouri
Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., the
Missouri Valley Historical Society Kans-
as City, Mo.

The following libraries may also be
of great assistance:

Columbia, (Boone). University of Mis-
souri Library, (Western Americana, books
and manuscripts); Jefferson City, (Cole),
State Library, State Office Bldg.; Kans-
as City, (Jackson). City Public Library.
9th «fe Locust Sts., Uocal and western
history, genealogy); St. Louis, Missouri
Historical Society Lfbrary, Jefferson
Memorial Bldg.; County Library, 6814
Natural Bridge Rd.; St. Louis Public Li-
brary, Olive, 13th & 14th Sts., (genealogy
and local history); Springfield, (Green),
Public Library, Central & Jefferson Sts.

From the secretary of State Histor-
ical Society of Missouri, corner Hitt and
Lowry Streets, Columbia, Mo., comes this
information:

"No official compilation of the vital
statistics of Missouri has been issued
and for the most part, such records as

are still existant are to be found in the
archives of the several counties. Regis-
tration of births, marriages and deaths
began in 1909 and are on file in the
Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Mis-
souri State Board of Health at Jeffer-
son City.

"The biographical sections of a num-
ber of the general histories of Missouri
and those in the histories of Missouri
counties contain informaton of value to
persons undertaking genealogcal re^
search. And, of course, numbers of sep-
arate volumes on individual families of
the state have been published.

"The greater number of Missouri
county histories are now out of print and
can only be bought through second-hand
book sellers. There are several dealers
from whom some of these volumes
might be obtained.

"The MISSOURI HISTORICAL RE-
VIEW is a quarterly magazine exclu-
sively to Missouri history and biography.
Biographical and genealogical informa-
tion is frequently included in the articles
on various phases of the state's history
published in the Review, but we do
not maintain a genealogical department
or publish genealogical queries in the
magazine. In certain early volumes of
the Review a few articles of a gen-
ealogical nature were published .such,
as "Monumental Inscriptions in Missouri
Cemeteries'* (Volumes 5, 6, 7 and 8),
early marriage records of Carroll coun-
ty, 1833-1852 (Volume 9. No. 2), and
Pike County marriage records, 1818-1837
(Volume 9, No. 3). The Review was
fiist published in October, 1906 and com-
plete unbound sets are available.

"Our Society has an excellent collec-
tion of general genealogical books and
periodicals which is made available to
anyone visiting our library. Unfortun-
ately, because of the large number of
requests we receive and the amount of
time required for work of this kind, we
find it impossible to undertake genea-
logical research even for our members.

"For anyone interested in enrolling
as a member of the Society, the annual
dues are $1, which includes a free sub-
scription to the MISSOURI HISTORI-
CAL REVIEW".

MISSOURI

Missouri County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Prepared and published through the courtesy of

MISS NANON L. CARR

6102 the Paseo, Kansas City 10, Missouri

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Adair A2 1841 20 1850-80 Macon Kirksville

Andrew Al 1841 12 1850-80 Platte Purchase Savannah

Arkansas 1813 New Madrid

(abolished 1819 when Territory of Arkansas was formed)
Atchison Al 1845 11 1850-80 Holt Rockport

(Part of Platte Purchase; attached to Holt co, until 1854; lost 10-mile strip

to Iowa, 1848)
Audrain B3 1836 24 1840-80 Monroe Mexico

(Created in 1831, but remained attached to Callaway, Monroe, and Ralls cos.

until 1836. In 1842 gained an additional 31 sq. miles from Monroe co.)
Barry Dl 1835 22 1840-80 Greene Cassville

(Error in survey, rectified in 1876, established the western line 2V-z miles

east of previous boundary. In 1872 many records in circuit clerk's office

were destroyed by fire)
Barton Dl 1855 13 1860-80 Jasper Lamar

(Courthouse burned in 1860; no mention of fate of records)
Bates CI 1841 18 1850-80 Jackson Butler

(Feb. 22, 1855. the three southern tiers of townships in Cass co. were

added to Bates; courthouse burned in 1861; no mention of fate of records)
Benton C2 1835 9 1840-80 Pettis, St. Clair Warsaw

^Remained unorganized until Jan. 1837; in 1845, 24 sq. miles of n. w. part

of Benton became parts of Pettis, and Hickory co. was created, reducing

Benton to its present size)
Bollinger D4 1851 11 1860-80 Cape Girardeau, Stoddard.

Wayne Marble Hill

(In 1866, courthouse destroyed by fire and with it some of the records; in

1884, courthouse burned while occupied only by the county clerk's office)

Boone C2 1820 48 1830-80 Howard Columbia

Buchanan Bl 1839 97 1840-80 Platte Purchase Saint Joseph

Butler E4 1849 38 1850-80 Wayne Poplar Bluff

Caldwell B2 1836 10 1840-80 Ray Kingston

(April 19, 1860, courthouse destroyed by fire, together with all records

except those of the probate court; Nov. 28, 1896, courthouse destroyed by

fire)

Callaway C3 1820 23 1830-80 Montgomery Fulton

Camden C2 1841 8 1850-80 Benton. Pulaski Camdenton

(Organized as Kinderhook, renamed Feb. 23, 1843; line between Camden

and Miller changed in 1845)
Cape Girardeau D4 1812 38 1830-80 Original District Jackson

(Present size since Mar. 5. 1849; in 1870 courthouse burned; no mention

of fate of record )

Carroll B2 1833 16 1840-80 Ray Carrollton

Carter D3 1859 5 1860-80 Ripley. Shannon Van Buren

Cass CI 1835 19 1850-80 Jackson Harrisonville

(Organized as Van Buren renamed Feb. 19, 1849; three southern tiers of

townships relinquished to Bates co.. Feb. 22, 1855)

Cedar CI 1845 11 1850-80 Dade, St. Clair Stockton

Chariton B2 1820 15 1830-80 Howard Kaytesville

(Courthouse burned Sept. 20, 1864; only a few records lost)
Christian D2 1859 12 1860-80 Greene, Taney, Webster Ozark

(Sources differ on date organized, some say Mar. 8. 1859. others Mar. 8,

1860; county seat, Ozark, selected May 1859; courthouse burned in 1865;

no mention of fate of records)

90 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Clark (old) 1818 Arkansas

(Never organized; abolished in 1819 when Territory of Arkansas was
created)

Clark A3 1836 9 1840-80 Lewis Kahoka

Clay Bl 1822 45 1830-80 Ray Liberty

Clinton Bl 1833 12 1840-80 Clay Plattsburg

Cole C2 1820 35 1830-80 Cooper Jefferson City

Cooper C2 1818 17 1830-80 Howard Eoonville

Crawford C3 1829 12 1830-80 Gasconade Steelville

(1829-1835 county court records lost; courthouse burned Feb. 15, 1873;
courthouse burred Jan. 5, 1884; no mention of fate of records)

Dade Dl 1841 9 1850-80 Greene Greenfield

(Lost 10-mile strip on northern boundary to Cedar co., and 9-mile strip on
southern boundary to Lawrence co., reducing it to its present limits, Mar.
28, 1845; courthouse burned in 1863, but records had been removed to
safety)

Dallas D2 1844 10 1850-80 Polk Buffalo

(Organized 1842 as Niangua co.; in 1844 boundaries slightly changed and
name changed to Dallas; courthouse burned Oct. 18, 1863; second court-
house burned July 30, 1864, and records destroyed; the replaced records
were burned Sept. 3, 1867)

Daviess A2 1836 11 1840-80 Ray Gallatin

DeKalb Al 1845 8 1850-80 Clinton Maysville

(In 1878 courthouse burned, many records being destroyed, but records of
circuit clerk's office were preserved along with a few papers of other
offices)

Dent D3 1851 11 1860-80 Crawford, Shannon Salem

(Courthouse burned in 1864, destroying some of the court records)

Dodge 1851 Putnam

(Discontinued in 1853; had lost territory when Iowa boundary was estab-
lished, bringing its area below the constitutional limit of 400 sq. miles; its
territory was added to Putnam co.)

Douglas D2 1857 13 1860-80 Ozark, Taney Ava

(Territory increased in 1864 by addition of portions of Taney and Web-
ster COS.)

Dunklin E4 1845 45 1850-80 Stoddard Kennett

(In 1853 a strip one mile wide was taken from Stoddard and added to
northern boundary; courthouse burned during Civil War; in 1872 a newly-
completed courthouse burned with all the records; all records prior to 1872
are lost)

Franklin C3 1818 36 1830-80 St. Louis Union

(Boundaries not accurately defined until 1845)

Gasconade C3 1820 12 1830-80 Franklin Hermann

(In 1869 relinquished 36 sq. miles to Crawford Co.)

Gentry Al 1841 11 1850-80 Clinton Albany

(Organization completed 1843; Mar. 6, 1885 courthouse burned with all
county records)

Greene D2 1833 105 1840-80 Crawford Springfield

(Courthouse burned in 1861; no mention of fate of records)

Grundy A2 1841 13 1850-80 Livingston Trenton

Harrison A2 1845 14 1850-80 Daviess Bethany

(Jan. 7, 1874, courthouse destroyed by fire; land books, court records,
probate records and most of the county records were saved ; tax books were
destroyed)

Hempstead 1818 Arkansas

(Abolished 1819 when Territory of Arkansas was created)

Henry CI 1834 20 1850-80 Lafayette Clinton

(Originally Rives co.; name changed Oct. 15, 1841)

Hickory C2 1845 5 1850-80 Benton, Polk Hermitage

(Courthouses burned 1852 and 1881; many records destroyed)

MISSOURI 91

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Scat

Holt Al 1841 10 1850-80 Platte Purchase Oregon

Howard B2 1816 12 1830-80 St. Charles, St. Louis Fayette

(Courthouse burned 1887; no mention of fate of records)

Howell E2 1857 23 1860-80 Oregon, Ozark West Plains

(Courthouse destroyed during Civil War no mention of fate of r-ocords)
Iron D3 1857 9 1860-80 Dent, Madison, Reynolds, St. Francis.

Washington, Wayne Ironton

Jackson Bl 1826 541 1830-80 Lafayette Independence

(Nearly all its territory was acquired frm Osage and Kansas Indians,
June 2, 1825)

Jasper Dl 1841 79 1850-80 Newton Carthage

(Courthouse destroyed in 1863; records had been removed and were re-
turned in 1865; courthouse burned in 1883; no mention of fate of records)

Jefferson C4 1818 38 1830-80 Ste. Genevieve. St. Louis Hillsboro

Johnson CI 1834 21 1840-80 Lafayette Warrenburg

Kinderhook 1841 Benton, Pulaski

(Renamed Camden Feb. 23, 1843)

Knox A3 1845 8 1850 80 Scotland Edina

Laclede D2 1849 19 1850-80 Camden. Pulaski. Wright Lebanon

Lafayette B2 1820 25 1830-80 Cooper Lexington

(Originally called Lillard; changed Feb. 16, 1825)

Lawrence (old) 1815 New Madrid

(Abolished 1818)

Lawrence Dl 1845 23 1850-80 Barry, Dade Mount Vernon

Lewis B3 1833 11 1840-80 Marion Monticello

Lillard 1820 Cooper

(Changed to Lafayette, Feb. 16, 1825)

Lincoln C3 1818 13 1830-80 St. Charles Troy

Linn B2 1837 19 1840-80 Chariton Linneus

Livingston B2 1837 17 1840-80 Carroll Chillicothe

McDonald Dl 1849 14 1850-80 Newton Pineville

(In 1876 an error in survey was corrected, establishing a new eastern line
which annexed a 2M; mile strip previously included in Barry co.; in 1863.
courthouse and records were burned)

Macon B2 1837 18 1840-80 Randolph Macon

Madison D4 1818 10 1830-80 Cape Girardeau, Ste.

Genevieve Fredericktown

Maries C3 1855 7 1860-80 Osage, Pulaski Vienna

(In 1859 and 1868, small tracts of land were exchanged with Phelps co.;
Nov. 6, 1868 courthouse burned with nearly all the records)

Marion B3 1826 30 1830-80 Ralls Palmyra

Mercer A2 1845 7 1850-80 Grundy Princeton

(March 24, 1898, courthouse burned; nearly all records of the circuit clerk
and recorder, treasurer, and sheriff were destroyed or badly damaged; re-
cords in office of probate judge and county clerk were saved, but many
were badly damaged)

Miller C2 1837 14 1840-80 Cole Tuscumbia

(Line between Camden and Miller changed 1845; territory from Morgan
annexed 1860; minor changes in 1868)

Mississippi E4 1845 23 1850-80 Scott Charleston

Moniteau C2 1845 11 1850-80 Cole, Morgan California

Monroe B3 1831 11 1840-80 Ralls Paris

Montgomery C3 1818 12 1830-80 St. Charles Montgomery City

(County records burned in 1864)

Morgan 02 1833 10 1840-80 Cooper Versailles

(Courthouse burned 1887; no mention of fate of records)

New Madrid E4 1812 39 1830-80 Original district New Madrid

Newton Dl 1838 28 1840-80 Barry Neosho

(In 1846 a strip two miles wide was detached from Newton and attached
to Jasper; courthouse burned 1862; no mention of fate of records)

92 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Niangua 1842 Polk

(BouiK^aries slightly changed and name changed to Dallas, Dec. 10, 1844)

Nodaway Al 1845 24 1850-80 Andrew Maryville

Oregon E3 1845 12 1850-80 Ripley Alton

(Courthouse burned during Civil War; no mention of fate of records)
Osage C3 1841 11 1850-80 Gasconade Linn

(Mar, 1, 1855, boundaries between Osage and Pulaski defined Nov. 15, 1880,

courthouse burned; fireproof vaults saved records)

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Ozark E2 1841 9 1850-80 Taney Gainesville

Pemiscot E4 1851 46 1860-80 New Madrid Caruthersville

(Courthouse and contents burned 1883)

Perry D4 1820 15 1830-80 Ste. Genevieve Perryville

Pettis C2 1833 32 1840-80 Cooper. Saline Sedalia

Phelps C3 1857 22 1S60-80 Crawford, Pulaski, Maries Rolla

Pike B3 1818 17 1830-80 St. Charles Bowling Green

(Courthouse burned 1864; no mention of fate of records)

Platte Bl 1838 15 1840-80 Platte Purchase Platte City

(Attached to Clay for civil and military purpose from Dec. 1836 to Dec.
31. 1838)

Polk D2 1835 16 1840-80 Greene Bolivar

Pulaski (old) 1818 Franklin

(Organization not perfected and much of its territory became Gasconade in
1820; abolished 1819 when Territory of Arkansas was created)

Pulaski D2 1833 10 1840-80 Crawford Waynesville

Putnam A2 1845 9 1850-80 Linn Unionville

(When Iowa boundary was established, the areas of both Putnam and
Dodge were below the constitutional limit; Dodge disorganized in 1853 and
its territory was regained by Putnam)

Ralls B.'' 1820 9 1830-80 Pike New London

Randolph B2 1829 23 1830-80 Chaiiton Huntsville

(A few records lost when courthouse burned 1880)

Ray Bl 1820 16 1830-80 Howard Richmond

Reynolds D3 1845 7 1850-80 Shannon Centerville

(Courthouse burned during Civil War; no mention of damage to records)

Ripley E3 1833 11 1840-80 Wayne Doniphan

Rives 1834 Lafayette

(Name changed to Henry, Oct. 15. 1841)

St. Charles C4 1812 30 1830-80 Original district St. Charles

St. Clair CI 1841 10 1850-80 Rives (later Henry) Osceola

St. Francois D4 1821 35 1830-80 Jefferson. Ste. Genvieve,

Washington Farmington

Ste. Genevieve D4 1812 11 1830-80 Original district Ste. Genevieve

St. Louis C4 1812 406 1830-80 Original district Clayton

St. Louis CityC4 1764 857 1830-80 St. Louis

Saline B2 1820 27 1830-80 Cooper Marshall

Schuyler A3 1845 6 1850-80 Adair Lancaster

Scotland A3 1841 7 j850-80 Lewis Memphis

Scott E4 1821 33 1830-80 New Madrid Benton

Shannon D3 1841 8 1850-80 Ripley. Washington Eminence

(Courthouse destroyed during Civil War; no mention of fate of records)

Shelby B3 1835 10 1840-80 Marion Shelbyville

Stoddard E4 1835 33 1840-80 Cape Giradeau Bloomfield

(Courthouse burned 1864. but records had been removed to safety)

Stone Dl 1851 10 1860-80 Taney Galena

Sullivan A2 1845 11 1850-80 Linn Milan

Taney E2 1837 10 , 1840-80 Greene Forsyth

(County records destroyed by fire 1885)

Texas D2 1845 19 1850-80 Shannon, Wright Houston

Van Buren 1835 Jackson

(Name changed to Cass, Feb. 19. 1849)

Vernon CI 1855 23 1860-80 Bates Nevada

(Created Feb. 15, 1851. but act was declared unconstitutional since its ter-
ritory was exactly that of Bates; legally created Feb. 27, 1855; reorganized
Oct. 17, 1865 after total suspension of civil order during Civil War; court-
house destroyed during that period but clerk had taken the records with
him when he joined the army and all records were later recovered except
one deed book)

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Warren 03 1833 8 1840-80 Montgomery Warrenton

Washington 03 1813 15 1830-80 Ste. Genevieve Potosi

Wayne D3 1818 11 1830-80 Cape Girardeau Greenville

(Courthouse burned with all the records 1854)
Webster D2 1855 15 1860-80 Greene. Wright Marshfield

(Courthouse burned 1863 but records were saved with the exception of

tax rolls and election returns)

Worth Al 1861 5 1870-80 Gentry Grant City

Wright D2 1841 16 1850-80 Pulaski Hartville

(1864 courthouse burned, destroying many records; 1897 courthouse

destroyed with all its records)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Conrad, Howard L. Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, 6 vols. New York: 1901
Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State: American Guide Series, New York: 1941
Violette, Eugene Morrow. A History of Missouri. 1918 (Reprint, Cape Girardeau:

1951)
Williams, Walter. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: 1915.

Montana

Capital, Helena

At least sixteen tribes of Indians Germany, England, Russia, and Sweeden.

roamed over Montana when white e\- I" 1952 Montana had a population of

, ... • * *u f 591,024 of which 43.7 per cent lived in

plorers first came mto the section. . ' ... ^ kc o * *

*^ its cities and 56.3 per cent roaming its

Traders from France, Scotland and Eng- ^ills and valleys. The extent of its

land were the first whites to visit there, wide-open spaces is indicated by the

The eastern part of Montana was part density of its population — four persons

of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Mem- per square mile.

bers of the Lewis and Clark Expedition The State has 56 counties. Of the or-

crossed the state in 1805 en route west igmai counties, nine were formed in

and on the return trip in 1806. 1864 and two in 1865. Eleven counties

The western part of Montana was in- have census reports available from 1860

eluded in the section that came to the on.

Uniied States in 1846 through the Ore- Birth and death records from June

gon Treaty. 1907 to the present are at the office of

The first influx of people really al- the Stale Registrar, State Board of

traded to Montana was in 1862 when Health, Helena, Montana. No birth and

gold was discovered in what is now Mad- death records are available before 1907,

ison county, southeast of Butte. About with the exception of Bozeman, Great

tv-enty years later, copper and silver Falls, and Helena at the office of the

were found in the Butte region. To county ckrk. Butte and Missoula have

work the resulting mines, many workers some records in the office of the city

were shipped in from Ireland, Germany, health department.

Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Marriage license information is at the

In 1864 Montana became an organized office of the county clerks, where records

Territory. Prior to this, various parts of wills, probate matters, deeds and

of the section had belonged at sundry land records also are available,

times to surrounding Territories, in- Library facilities in Montana are in

eluding those of Missouri, Nebraska, keeping with its population. Libraries

Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. are established in about seventy-five

Montana became the forty-first state cities. Among the larger libraries, most
late in 1889. From then on many people of which have fine historical collections,
were attracted to the state for agricul- are the Historical Society of Montana
lural and livestock reasons. People to at Helena, the public libraries at Bil-
till the soil and herd the flocks of sheep lings, Butte. Missoula, and Great Falls,
and cattle that roamed the wide-stretch- and the Montana State University Li-
ed hills came from Canada, Norway, brary at Missoula.

MONTANA

Montana County Histories

(Population fi

Map
Index

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B4
C2
D3
C4
A4
D2
D2
A3
Al
A2
E3
A3
C2
El
D3
B2
El

Name

Beaverhead

Big Horn

Blaine

Broadwater

Carbon

Carter

Cascade

Chouteau

Custer

Daniels

Dawson

Deer Lodge

Fallon

Fergus

Flathead

Gallaton

GarfieM

Glacier

Golden

Valley
Granite
Hill

Jefferson
Judith Basin D2
Lake E2

Lewis and

Clark
Liberty
Lincoln
McCone
Madison
Meagher
Mineral
Missoula
Musselshell
Park

Petroleum
Phillips
Pondera
Powder

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E3
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E3

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D2
Fl
A2
E4
D3
F2
E2
C3
D4
C2
B2
E2

River
Powell
Prairie
Ravalli
Richland
Roosevelt
Rosebud
Sanders
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater

A4
E2
A3
F3
A2
A2
B3
F2
Al
E3
C4

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Teton E2
Toole Dl
Treasure B3
Valley B2
Wheatland D3
Wilbaux A3
Yellowstone C3

Census Note:
portion).

Date
Formed

1864
1913
1912
1897
1895
1917
1887
1864
1865
1920
1865
1864
1913
1885
1893
1864
1919
1915

1920
1893
1912
1864
1920
1923

1864
1920
1909
1919
1864
1864
1914
1864
1911
1887
1917
1915
1919

1921
1901
1915
1893
1914
1919
1901
1906
1911
1881
1913
1895
1893
1914
1919
1893
1917
1914
1893

Pop.
By M
7

10
9
3

10
3

53
7

13
4
9

17
4

22
2

3
14

25
2
9
3
6
2
2

35
5

12
1
6
6

2
13
10
10

7
48

1
11

2
56

gures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census

Census

Reports
Available

1860-80
1860-80

For all of the

Parent County Countv Seat

Original county Dillon

Rosebud Hardin

Chouteau, Hill Chinook

Jefferson, Meagher Townsend

Park, Yellowstone Red Lodge

Custer Ekalaka

Chouteau, Meagher Great Falls

1860-80 Original county Fort Benton

Original county Miles City

Valley Scobey

1860-80 Original county Glendive

1860-80 Original county Anaconda

Custer Baker

Meagher Lewistown

Missoula Kalispell

1860-80 Original county Bozeman

Valley, McCone Jordan

Flathead, Teton Cut Bank

Musselshell Ryegate

Deer Lodge Philipsburg

Chouteau Havre

1860-80 Original county Boulder

Fergus, Cascade Stanford

Flathead, Missoula Poison

1860-80 Original county Helena

Chouteau Chester

Flathead Libby

Dawson, Richland Circle

1860-80 Original county Virginia City

1860-80 Original county .... White Sulpher Springs
Missoula Superior

1860-80 Original county Missoula

Fergus, Meagher Roundup

Gallatin Livingston

Fergus, Garfield Winnett

Valley Malta

Yellowstone Conrad

Custer Broadus

Missoula Deer Lodge

Custer Terry

Missoula Hamilton

Dawson Sidney

Valley, Richland Wolf Point

Dawson Forsyth

Missoula Thompson Falls

Custer Plentywood

Deer Lodge Butte

Sweet Grass, Yellowstone .— Columbus
Meagher, Park, Yellowstone .. Big Timber

Chouteau Choteau

Teton Shelby

Big Horn Hyshani

Dawson Glasgow

Meagher, Sweet Grass Harlowton

Dawson Wibaux

Gallatin, Meagher, Custer Billings

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Nebraska

Capital, Lincoln

Nebraska was long a choice spot for
several rather belligerent Indian tribes.
The first settlers were stragglers of the
California Gold Rush days and the Ore-
gon migration. Others unused to moun-
tain terrain returned to the level lands
of Nebraska which had formed a de-
lightful picture in their memory as they
were westward bound.

The first settlement was established
in 1823. It was called Bellevue, and is
situated less than ten miles below Omaha
on the Missouri.

Nebraska was part of the Missouri
Territory before 1820. In 1834 it was
carved into three sections and placed
under the supervision of Arkansas, Mi-
chigan and the state of Missouri. Twenty
years later it became a Territory in its
own name, including sections of Colorado,
Montana, North and South Dakota, and
Wyoming.

All during the 1850's many Germans
settled in Nebraska. Twenty years later
a large contingent of Germans came out
of Russia and settled Lancaster and
nearby counties. Many Scandinavians
established homes there after the adop-
tion of the Homestead Act of 1862.

In 1861 Nebraska was admitted to the
union — the thirty-seventh state. Many
Civil War veterans secured cheap land
after the close of that struggle.

Most Nebraskans of today are of Ger-
man, Czech, Swedish or Russian descent.

The 1950 census gave Nebraska a
population of 1,325,510 with 46.9 per cent
living in cities and 53.1 per cent in the
agricultural district. The density of the
population is 17.2 persons per square
mile.

Among its leading cities are Omaha,
251,117; Lincoln, 98,884; Grand Island,
22,682; Hastings, 20,211; North Platte,
15,533; Fremont, 14,762.

Birth and death records since 1904 and
marriage records since 1909 are at the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, State De-
partment of Health, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Prior to those dates, the birth, death and
marriage records are available at the
offices of the county clerks, where wills
and probate matters are recorded.

Land records, such as deeds, mort-
gages and all land titles are recorded
in the office of the Register of Deeds
in the various county seats.

The earliest census record of any Ne-
braska county is that of 1860. The State
has 92 counties. Of the 24 original count-
ies one was formed in 1853, fourteen
were formed in 1854, seven in 1855, and
two in 1857.

Nebraska Libraries — Lincoln, (Lan-
caster), Nebraska State Historical Li-
brary, Capital Bldg., (local manuscripts,
newspapers of state, midwest lore) ; Uni-
versity of Nebraska, Don L. Love Me-
morial Library, (history of Great Plains
region); Omaha, (Douglas), Public Li-
brary, Harney & 19th Sts.

Nebraska County Histories

Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census]

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Adams

1870

1870-80

Antelope

1875

1880

Arthur

1888

Banner

1888

Blaine

1885

Boone

1871

1880

Box Butte

1886

Boyd

1890

Brown

1883

Buffalo

1857

1860-80

Burt

1855

1860-80

Butler

1857

1860-80

Cass

1854

1860-80

Cedar

1855

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Clay Hastings

Pierce Neligh

Unorganized Territory Arthur

Cheyenne Harrisburg

Custer Brewster

Platte Albion

Unorganized Territory Alliance

Holt Butte

Unorganized Territory Ainsworth

Original county Kearney

Original county Tekamah

Unorganized Territory David City

Original county Plattsmouth

Original county Hartington

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Chase

1873

1880

Cherry

1883

Cheyenne

1867

1870-80

Clay

1857

1860-80

Colfax

1865

1870-80

Cuming

1860

1860-80

Custer

1875

1880

Dakota

1854

1860-80

Dawes

1885

Dawson

1871

1860-80

Deuel

1888

Dixon

1853

1860-80

Dodge

1855

1860-80

Douglas

1854

281

1860-80

Dundy

1873

1880

Fillmore

1865

1860-80

Franklin

1867

1870-80

Frontier

1872

1880

Furnas

1877

1880

Gage

1855

1860-80

Garden

1887

Garfield

1884

Gosper

1877

1880

Grant

1887

Greeley

1875

1880

Hall

1855

1860-80

Hamilton

1870

1870-80

Harlan

1871

1880

Hayes

1873

1880

Hitchcock

1873

1880

Holt

1876

1880

Hooker

1889

Howard

1871

1880

Jefferson

1872

1870-80

Johnson

1854

1860-80

Kearney

1854

1860-80

Keith

1873

1880

Keya Paha

1884

Kimball

1888

Knox

1854

1860-80

Lancaster

1854

120.

1860-80

Lincoln

1867

1870-80

Logan

1885

Loup

1883

McPherson

1887

Madison

1865

1860-80

Merrick

1854

1860-80

Morrill

1887

Nance

1879

Nemaha

1855

1860-80

Nuckolls

1871

1860-80

Otoe

1854

1860-80

Pawnee

1854

1860-80

Perkins

1887

Phelps

1873

1880

Pierce

1867

1870-80

Platte

1854

1860-80

Polk

1854

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Unorganized Territory Imperial

Unorganized Territory Valentine

Unorganized Territory Sidney

Original county Clay Center

Dodge Schuyler

Burt Westpoint

Unorganized Territory Broken Bow

Original county Dakota

Sioux Chadron

Buffallo Lexington

Cheyenne Chappell

Original county Ponca

Original county Fremont

Original county Omaha

Unorganized Territory Benkelman

Unorganized Territory Geneva

Kearney Org. 1871 Franklin

Unorganized Territory ,.... Stockville

Unorganized Territory Beaver City

Original county Beatrice

Unorganized Territory Oshkosh

Wheeler Burwell

Unorganized Territory Elwood

Unorganized Territory Hyannis

Boone Greeley

Original county Grand Island

York Aurora

Unorganized Territory Alma

Unorganized Territory Hayes Center

Unorganized Territory Trenton

Knox O'Neill

Unorganized Territory Mullen

Hall Saint Paul

Gage Fairbury

Original county Tecumseh

Original county Minden

Lincoln Ogallala

Brown, Rock Springview

Cheyenne Kimball

Formerly L'Eau Qui Court Center

Original county Lincoln

Unorganized Territory North Platte

Custer Stapleton

Unorganized Territory Taylor

Lincoln, Keith Tryon

Platte Madison

Original county Central City

Cheyenne Bridgeport

Merrick Fullerton

Original county Auburn

Clay Nelson

Original county Nebraska City

Original county Pawnee City

Keith Grant

Unorganized Territory Holdrege

Madison Pierce

Original county Columbus

Original County Osceola

NEBRASKA

County Map of Nebraska

100

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Scat

Red Willow D4 1873 13 1880 Frontier McCook

Richardson A4 1855 17 1860-80 Original county Falls City

Rock C2 1888 3 Brown Bassett

Saline B3 1871 14 1860-80 Gage. Lancaster Wilber

Sarpy A3 1854 16 1860-80 Original county Papillion

Saunders A3 1865 17 1870-80 Sarpy, Douglas Wahoo

Scotts Bluff F2 1888 34 Cheyenne Gering

Seward B3 1867 13 1870-80 Lancaster Seward

Sheridan E2 1885 10 Sioux Rushville

Sherman C3 1873 6 1880 Buffalo Loup City

Sioux F2 1877 3 1880 Unorganized Territory Harrison

Stanton B2 1865 6 1870-80 Dodge Stanton

Thayer B4 1872 11 1880 Jefferson Hebron

Thomas D2 1887 1 Blaine Thedford

Thurston A2 1865 9 1870-80 Burt Pender

Valley C2 1871 7 1880 Unorganized Territory Ord

Washington A2 1854 12 1860-80 Original county Blair

Wayne B2 1867 10 1870-80 Thurston Wayne

Webster C4 1871 7 1880 Unorganized Territory Red Cloud

Wheeler C2 1877 2 Boone Bartlett

York B3 1854 14 1860-80 Original county York

Census Notes on Nebraska: The following discontinued counties have census
figures as indicated, Blackbird, 1870; Calhoun, 1860; Jackson, 1870; Jones, 1860;
L'Eau qui Court, 1860 and 1870, see Knox County; Shorter, 1860; Taylor, 1870;
Thurston, 1870, see Blackbird County; Winnebago Indian Reservation, 1870; (Un-
organized portion): 1860; (Schedules not bearing names of counties represent por-
tions of Nebraska Territory (1860) now included in the states of Montana and Wy-
oming.)

Nevada

Capital, Carson City

Twelve years after the Mormon
Pioneers had reached the Great Salt
Lake City, gold and silver were found
in the Comstock Mine in Virginia City,
Nevada, midway — twenty or twenty-five
miles — between Reno and Carson City.
The strike was rich enough to turn Cal-
ifornia gold seekers eastward. Almost
overnight, the Nevada population, which
up to that time iiad stood around a
thousand, doubled over and over again.
Among Europeans attracted by the rich
mineral discovery were people from all
sections of Britain, Italy, Scandinavia,
Germany, and France. Many Mexicans
came also.

Nevada became a territory in 1861 and
three years later was admitted into the
union as the thirty-sixth state.

New discoveries of rich ore deposits in
different sections of the state have
gradually increased the population to

160,083, which is the smallest of any
of the states in the union. However, the
population has had a tremendous in-
crease since 1940 when the census fig-
ures were about 50,000 less than those
of 1950. In recent years, farming and
grazing has attracted permanent set-
tlers. Many Mormons have settled in the
state and several communities are al-
most entirely of that religious faitri.
Still, the Catholics predominate, the ma-
jority of the miners and smelter work-
workers belonging to that church.

The state is the sixth in area and the
forty-eighth in population. Nevada has
seventeen counties. All nine of the or-
iginal counties were formed in 1861. Only
one of its present counties has census
figures available from the 1860 census,
Humboldt. Twelve counties have census
figures from 1870.

Its largest cities are Reno, 32,497;

NEVADA

101

County Map of Nevada

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Las Vegas, 24,624; Sparks, 8,203; Elko,
5,393; North Las Vegas, 3,875.

Birth and death records from 1887
to June 30, 1911, marriage records from
1864 to date, deeds and land records
from 1864 to date are all in the office
of the Recorder of each county.

Birth and death files from July 1,
1911 to date are at the Nevada State
Department of Health, Division of Vital

Statistics, Carson City, Nevada.

Marriage bans are not filed.

Wills from 1864 to date are in the
office of the clerk of each county.

The records of the state Census of
1872 are in the custody of the Secretary
of State, Carson City, Nevada.

Tax payers lists from 1864 are at the
office of the Assessor of each county.

Library — Reno, (Washoe), University
of Nevada Library.

Nevada County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)
Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Churchill C2 1861 6 1870-80 Original county Fallon

Clark F4 1909 48 Lincoln Las Vegas

Douglas CI 1861 2 1870-80 Original county Minden

Elko A4 1875 12 1870-80 Lander Elko

Esmeralda D2 1861 1 1870-80 Original county Godfield

Eureka B3 1873 1 1880 Lander Eureka

Humboldt A2 1861 5 1860-80 Original county Winnemucca

Lander B3 1861 2 1870-80 Original county Austin

Lincoln D4 1869 4 1870-80 Nye Pioche

Lyon CI 1861 4 1870-80 Original county Yerington

Mineral D2 1911 6 Esmeralda Hawthorne

Nye D3 1864 3 1870-80 Esmeralda Tonopah

Ormsby CI 1861 4 1870-80 Original county Carson City

Pershing B2 1919 3 Humboldt Lovelock

Storey CI 1861 1 1870-80 Original county Virginia City

Washoe Bl 1861 50 1870-80 Original county Reno

White Pine C4 1864 9 1870-80 Elko, Lincoln Ely

U. S. Census Notes: The following discontinued Nevada counties have census
figures as follows: Carson, 1860, see Utah; Pahute, 1870; Roop, 1870; St. Mary's, 1860,
see Utah.

New Hampshire

Capital, Concord

New Hampshire, in the northeast
corner of the United States, is one of
the thirteen original colonies. Its his-
tory dates back to 1603 when an English-
man, Martin Pring anchored in
Piscataqua harbor. The French explor-
er, Samuel de Champlain discovered the
Isles of Shoals in 1605 while sailing along
the coast of N. H. In 1614 Captain John
Smith landed on its shores. It was settled
about 1623 at Rye (Little Harbor), Dover
and Portsmouth. This was only three
years after the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers in Massachusetts. A little later
settlements were made at Exeter and

Hampton. These places were on or near
the coast, or on a river bank near its
mouth. After these first settlements,
little effort was put iorth to establish
new settlements for almost a hundred
years. The fear of Indians kept the set-
tlers from moving inland.

New Hampshire became part of the
Massachusetts colony in 1641, and con-
tinued so, with brief interruptions, for
about a hundred years. In 1741 it be-
came a Royal British Province and re-
mained so until the Revolutionary War.

A large part of the early settlers
came from Massachusetts and Connect!-

NEW HAMPSHIRE

103

cut. The Connecticut River is the west-
ern boundary of the state. Apparently
it was much easier to go up the river
than to cut long roads through the for-
ests from the eastern shore. Many of
the river towns, as a result, are much
older than those in the interior. If
the ancestory of the early settlers of
one of those towns is sought, it will
more than likely be found in Connecticut
or western Massachusetts.

Of New Hampshire. Archibald F. Ben-
nett, secretary of the Genealogical So-
ciety of Utah, has said: "In the great
migration to the west, New Hampshire
and Vermont were stopping places for
a few years for one or more genera-
tions of families now established far
from there. Many families from their
homelands in Massachusetts and Connec-
ticut seemed to pause here briefly, and
then resume their westward trek. Their
residence in New Hampshire was often
during the pioneer period when records
were not kept too regularly. Then they
removed so early that almost all trace
of their presence in those localities is
obliterated. Consequently, many ances-
tral lines of western families are fol-
lowed back to New Hampshire or Ver-
mont, and then are hopelessly lost. Yet
there are actually many sources which
can assist in the solution of such prob-
lems."

During the first two hundred years or
more of its history, it was mainly people
from England who came to New Hamp-
shire. During the next seventy-five years,
tens of thousands came into the state
from the Scandinavian countries and
from Greece, Italy and France.

New Hampshire entered the union
in 1788, the ninth state to ratify the
constitution.

The 1950 Census gives New Hampshire
a population of 533,242 residents, which
places her as the forty-fourth state in
population, with 57.5 per cent of its res-
idents being city dwellers and 42.5 per
cent living in the country. Its largest
cities are Manchester, 82,732; Nashua,
34,669; Concord, 27,988; Portsmouth,
18,300; Berlin 16,615.

Vital statistics have been kept in the
towns since 1640, though they are not
complete. Copies of all statistics re-
cords since that date have been made.
They include town records, church re-
cords, cemetary records, and all other
available old records. These have all
been indexed, and may be searched for

a small fee. These records are available
at the office of the Registrar of Vital
Statistics, State House, Concord, N. H.,
and at some of the offices of the town
clerks. Wills are in the charge of the
clerks of the probate courts of the ten
counties. The Registrars of deeds are
in charge of deeds and land titles. The
State Library at Concord has charge of
the Census Records. Cemetery records
are handled by the cemetery superinten-
dents or selectmen of the towns. Tax
payers are handled by the town and
city clerks throughout the state.

Almost all towns have town histories.
Many of these contain much genealogi-
cal information about the early settlers.
In the genealogical departments of the
public libraries will be found many books
with valuable information about the
town families. Many records are abail-
able at the New Hampshire State Li-
brary and the New Hampshire State Li-
brary and the New Hampshire Histor-
ical Society, both in Concord. The Cen-
sus; reports from 1800 are available, as
well as those of subsequent years.

New Hampshire libraries — Concord,
(Merrimac), Public Library, 45 Green
St.; New Hampshire Historical Society
Library, 30 Park St., (local histories of
state, family and genealogical records,
old maps, early newspapers); New Hamp-
shire State Library, 20 Park St.; Man-
chester, (Hillsboro), City Public Library,
405 Pine St., (community articles).

Valuable genealogy records are found
in the following books which form only
a small part of the many that have been
written about this state and its people:

Sterns, Ezra S.. Genealogy and Family
History o/ the State o/ New Hampshire.
4 vol. Pub. 1908 Lewis Publishing Co.. New
York, Chicago.

Ayling, Augustus D., Revised Register
of the Soldiers and Sailors of N. H. in the
War of Rebellion 1861-1866.. Pub. 1895 by
the New Hampshire Legislature.

New Hampshire Towns
Organized Before 1800

BELKNAP COUNTY — Alton, 1770;
Barnstead, 1727; Belmont; Center Har-
bor, 1797, Gilmanton, 1761; Meredith,
1748; New Hampton, 1765; Sanbornton,
1764.

CARROLL COUNTY — Albany, 1766;
Bartlett, 1790; Brookfield, 1794; Conway,
1764; Chatham, 1767; Eaton, 1760; Ef-
fingham, 1749; Hart's Location, 1773;
Jackson, 1778; Madison, 1785; Moulton-
borough, 1763; Ossipee, 1765; Sandwich,

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

1763; Tamworth, 1771; Tuftonboro, 1750;
Wakefield, 1774; Wolfeboro, 1768.

CHESHIRE COUNTY — Alstead, 1763;
Chesterfield, 1761; Dublin, 1752; Fitz-
william, 1752; Gilsum, 1764; Jaffray,
1752; Keene, 1754; Marlborough, 1752;
Marlow, 1753; Nelson, 1767; Rindge, 1754;
Richmond, 1758; Stoddard, 1769 Sulli-
van, 1760; Swanzey, 1753; Surry, 1769;
Walpole, 1749; Westmoreland, 1741;

Winchester, 1732.

COOS COUNTY —. Berlin, 1771; Coles-
brook, 1762; Columbia, 1762; Cambridge,
1793; Drummer, 1773; Dalton, 1764; Jef-
ferson, 1765; Lancester, 1763; Milan,
1771; Northumberland, 1767; Randolph,
1772; Stark, 1788; Shelburne, 1770; Strat-
ford, 1775.

GRAFTON COUNTY — Alexandria,
1782; Benton, 1764; Bath, 1765; Bethle

County Map of New Hampshire

NEW HAMPSHIRE

105

hem, 1799; Bridgewater, 1788; Canaan,
1761; Compton, 1765; Danbury, 1795;
Dorchester, 1761; Enfield, 1761; Ells-
worth, 1769; Franconia, 1754; GrafLon,
1772; Groton, 1761; Hanover, 1765; Hav-
erhill, 1763; Holderness, 1751; Hebron,
1792; Landaff, 1764; Lebanon, 1761; Lis-
bon, 1763; Littleton, 1764; Lyme. 1764:
Lyman, 1761; Lincoln, 1764; Orange,
1790; Oxford, 1765; Pierpont, 1768; Ply-
mouth, 1764; Rumney, 1705; Thornton,
1770; Warren, 1767; Wentworth, 1766;
Woodstock, 1763.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY -- Amherst,
1760; Antrim, 1744; Bedford, 1736; Brook-
line, 1769; Deering, 1765; Francestov/n,
1752; Goffstown, 1733; Greenfield, 1771;
Hancock, 1765; Hillsborough, 1735; Hollis,
1731; Hudson, 1722; Litchfield, 1720;
Lyndeborough, 1759; Manchester, 175.1;
Mason, 1768; Merrimack, 1722; Milford,
1740; Nashua, 1673; New Boston, 1735;
New Ipswich, 1735; Petersborough, 1749;
Pelham, 1745; Sharon, 1791; Temple,
1750; Weare, 1735; Wilton, 1749; Windsor^
1798.

MERRIMACK COUNTY — Allenstown,
1747; Andover, 1761; Boscowan, 1760;
Bow, 1727; Bradford, 1771; Canterbury,
1723-50; Chichester, 1727; Concord, 1727;
Dunbarton, 1746, Danbury, 1795; Epsom,
1727; Henniker, 1760; Hill, 1768; Hop-
kinton, 1740; Loudon, 1765; Newbury,

1762; New London, 1758; Northfield,
1760; Pembroke, 1728; Pittsfield, 1782;
Salisbury, 1750; Sutton, 1767; Warner,
1773.

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY — - Atkinson,
1728; Auburn, 1734; Brentwood, 1742;
Candia, 1748; Chester, 1720; Danville,
1738; Deerfield, 1750; E. Kingston, 1738;
Epping, 1741; Exeter, 1638; Fremont,
1764; Greenland, 1704; Hempstead, 1728;
Hampton, 1635; Hampton Falls, 1726;
Kensington, 1737; Kingston, 1694; Lon-
donderry, 1719; Newcastle, 1693; New-
ington, 1670; Newfields, 1681; Newmar-
ket, 1727; Newton, 1749; North Hamp-
ton, 1690; Northwood, 1763; Nottingham,
1722; Plaistow, 1642; Portsmouth, 1623;
Raymond, 1764; Rye, 1635; Sandown,
1756; Seabrook, 1758; South Hampton,
1742; Stratham, 1629; Windham, 1741.

STAFFORD COUNTY — Barrington,
1762; Dover, 1623; Durham, 1623; Farm-
ington, 1798; Lee, 1766; Madbury, 1755;
Middleton, 1778; Milton, 1760; New Dur-
ham, 1749; Rochester, 1722; Somers-
worth, 1754.

SULLIVAN COUNTY — Acworth, 1767;
Charlestown, 1735; Claremont, 1764;
Cornish, 1765; Croydon, 1766; Goshen,
1761; Grantham, 1761; Langdon, 1773;
Lempster, 1785; Newport, 1765-6; Plain-
field, 1765; Springfield, 1772; Unity,
1754; Washington, 1768.

New Hampshire County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Parent County

County Seat

Belknap D2
Carroll C2

Cheshire El
Coos B2

Grafton* CI
Hillsboro El
Merrimack Dl
Rockingham E2
Strafford D2
Sullivan Dl
*1820 Census

1842
1842
1771
1803
1771

27
16
39
36

1771 157
1823 63
1771 70
1771 52
1827 26
missing.

1850-80
1850-80
1790-80
1810-80
1790-80
1790-80
1830-80
1790-80
1790-80
1830-80

Strafford, Merrimac Laconia

Grafton Ossipee

Orig. county, Keene

Grafton Lancaster

Orig. county Woodsville

Orig. county Manchester and Nashua

Rockingham, Hillsboro Concord

Orig. county Exeter

Orig. county Dover

Cheshire Newport

New Jersey

Capital, Trenton

French explorers sailed along the New later the Dutch had settlers opposite
Jersey coast as early as 1524. In the the present upper New York City. Corn-
service of Holland, Henry Hudson sailed missioned by their King, Swedish ad-
up the Hudson River in 1609. Nine years venturers established a colony in the

106 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Delaware Valley, shortly after the Dutch able in New Jersey as in some other

came to the area. states. Since they were not required

With the experience gained in col- by law to keep a record of births and

onizing southern sections of America, deaths the family Bible was about the

two English court favorites, Lord Berk- only place where these things were re-

eley and Sir George Carteret induced corded. And yet, researchers willing

the Duke of York to grant them the to dig into available records can find

area between the Hudson and the Dela- a wealth of information,

ware rivers. They named the colony The office of the State Registrar of

New Jersey after the English Channel Vital Statistics, State Department of

home of Carteret. Throwing the terri- Health, Trenton 7, New Jersey, has

tory open to land-seekers in 1664, the birth records from 1848 to 1929 and

promoters made tempting offers to death records from 1878 to 1929. Mar-

those willing to come. To the small riage information from 1848 to 1929 is

Dutch communities along the Hudson also available there, although some are

came folks from every section of Brit- incomplete.

ain. Puritans came down from Connec- Only in Hudson County does the county

ticut and established Newark. Scotch- clerk issue marriage licenses. In all other

Irish Presbyterians poured into the east- counties such licenses are handled by

ern counties, and English Quakers came the town or city clerks, the township as-

into the fertile regions of the Dela- sessor or the local registrar of vital sta-

ware. tistics.

While differing strongly in their re- Early marriage records which were
ligious convictions, the settlers were sol- kept by the Secretary of State are print-
idly united against the tax and monetary ed in the Archives.

ideas of the Crown and the proprietors. Divorce records are kept in the Su-

Disgusted with the lack of financial perior Court, Chancery Division, at the

returns in the venture, the proprietors State House in Trenton,

sold out to William Penn and his Quak- The federal circuit and district courts

ei- Friends. and the State Supreme court, all in Tren-

In the intervening years, difficulties ton, and the county circuit courts have

were erased and more unity ensued. In records of naturalization proceedings,

the early part of the eighteenth century. Most of the churches in the state have

New Jersey and New York had the records of their respective memberships

same royal governor, but this ended in for many years back.

1738, During the next 49 years New Jer- The originals of wills and probate

sey had a governor and a legislature matters, together with early guardian-

of its own. ship and orphans' court proceedings are

She became the third state to ratify in the custody of the Secretary of State

the constitution of the United States in in Trenton. Copies of Wills and admin-

1878. Three years later, the first U. S. istrations of estates beginning in 1804

Census gave New Jersey a population of are at the county court houses. Wills

184,139. The majority of these were and administrations of estates from 1682

English from the Old World as well as to 1805 have been digested and published

from New England. The Dutch and the in the State Archives. There are ten

Swedes were also represented by large volumes, each completely indexed. The

numbers. In the west part of the state state also published an Index of New

were many French and Scotch. Jersey Wills, three volumes. These wills

Before William Penn acquired Penn- extend to a much later date than those

sylvania, he and a company of Quakers given in the Archives. Many libraries,

settled West Jersey. The early Swedish including the Cache County Library in

and Dutch settlers continued to live Logan, Utah, have a complete set of

there. Hence, a New Jersey pedigree the Archives of New Jersey,

may trace back to the English Quakers, Although thirteen of the twenty-one

the Puritans from New England, the counties in New Jersey were established

Swedes who waged war on the early before 1790, no federal census schedules

English settlers, the Dutch settlers who are available until the 1830 census. All

came from New Amsterdam (New York) of the New Jersey schedules for 1790,

and the Huguenots who fled from France 1800, 1810, and 1820 are missing. The

in search of religious liberty and peace, available schedules are enumerated in

Research conditions are not so favor- the New Jersey County Histories in this

NEW JERSEY

107

section.

The New Jersey State Library has
custody of the state census records taken
every ten years since 1855.

More than 275 libraries serve the
people of New Jersey. Many of these
have valuable genealogical and histor-
ical books on their shelves.

Among the libraries are the following:

Atlantic City, (Atlantic), Free Public

Library, Illinois and Pacific Aves., (gene-
alogical material on N. J., N. Y., and
Pa., limited number of family histories
and family Bible recor'ds); Camden,
(Camden), (across the Delaware River
from Philadelphia), County Free Pub-
lic Library; City Public Library; Jersey
City, (Hudson), (across the river from
New York City), Free Public Library,
472 Jersey Ave.; Morristown, (Morris),

County Map of New Jersey

108

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

County Free Library, Courthouse, do- braries or book stores:

cal histories and genealogies) ; City Pub- Barber, John W. Historical Collections

lie Library, Miller Road and South Street, o/ New Jersey, Past and Present, biogra-

( family histories and genealogical publi- phies, the State Census of all the towns in

cations); Newark, (Essex), Public Li- 1865. 543 pp. New Haven, 1868.

brary, 5 Washington St., (state and lo- Clayton, W. Woodford. History of

cal history); Genealogical Society of New Union and Middlesex Counties, with biogra-

Jersey, 33 Lombardy St., (genealogies phies of many pioneers and prominent men.

and local history); New Brunswick, 885 pp. Philadelphia, 1882.

(Middlessex), Rutger University Library, Folsom, Joseph S. The Municipalities o[

(old newspapers and local histories); Essex County, 1666-1924. Four volumes.

Paterson, (Passaic), Free Public Li- New York, 1925.

brary; Princeton, (Mercer), Princeton Hatfield, Edwin F. History of Eliza-

University Library, (American History, beth, including the Early History of Union

especially Southern States); Trenton, County. 701 pp. New York, 1868.

Free Public Library, 120 Academy St.; Lee, Francis B. Genealogical and Per-

New Jersey State Teachers College Li- sonal Memorial of Mercer County. Two vol-

brary. umes. New York, 1907.

Many books have been printed over Stewart, Frank H. Notes on Old Glow

the years concerning the history of the cester County. 342 pp. Camden. 1917.

various communities and families of New Wickes, Stephen. History of the Oranges

Jersey. The following are only a mere in Essex County, from 1666 to 1806. 334

mention of half a dozen available in li- pp. Newark. 1892.

New Jersey County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Nai

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Atlantic

1837

132

1840-80

Bergen

1682

539

1830-80

Burlington

1682

136

1830-80

Camden

1844

301

1850-80

Cape May

1692

1830-80

Cumberland

1753

1830-80

Essex

1861-2

906

1830-80

Gloucester

1681-2

1830-80

Hudson

1840

647

1840-80

Hunterdon

1692

1830-80

Mercer

1838

230

1840-80

Middlesex

1682

265

1830-80

Monmouth

1682

225

1830-80

Morris

1738

164

1830-80

Ocean

1850

1850-80

Passaic

1837

337

1840-80

Salem

1681-2

1830-80

Somerset

1688

1830-80

Sussex

1753

1830-80

Union

1857

398

1860-80

Warren

1824

1830-80

Parent County County Seat

Burlington Mays Landing

Original county Hackensack

Original county Mt. Holly

Burlington, Glouc Camden

Cumberland Cape May C. H.

Salem Bridgeton

Original county Newark

Original county Woodbury

Bergen Jersey City

Somerset Flemington

Somerset, Middles Trenton

Original county ....: New Brunswick

Original county Freehold

Hunterdon Morristown

Monmouth, Burlington Toms River

Bergen, Essex Paterson

Original county Salem

Middlesex Somerville

Morris Newton

Essex, Middles Elizabeth

Sussex, Hunterdon Belvidere

Northern N. J.

New Mexico

Capital, Sante Fe

Until 1821 when the 780-mile Santa or Europeans had made their homes in
Fe Trail was opened from Independence, New Mexico. For years, the region had
Mo., to Santa Fe, N. M., few Americans belonged to Mexico and was inhabited

NEW MEXICO

109

mainly by Indians and Spanish-Ameri-
cans. Its main city, Santa Fe, had been
the capital of the Mexican territory
since 1609. At that early date and for
the next 150 years or more, its con-
nections were more with Mexico than
the United States. Indians and Spanish-
Americans were its only inhabitants un-
til the first part of 1800.

Its present 681,187 population consists
of about 34,000 Indians, 227,000 Spanish
Americans, and 420,000 from the United
States and Europe. The latter are main-
ly from Italy, Germany, England and
Greece.

New Mexcio became part of the Unit-
ed States in 1848. In 1850 when it was
created a territory, it included most of
its present domain, plus Arizona and
Colorado. The Gadsden Purchase in
1854 included within its boundaries the
Gila Valley in Catron and Grant count-
ies

The Colorado section was taken from
New Mexico in 1861 and made into a
separate territory. Two years later, Ari-
zona was also withdrawn and created
into a separate territory.

After operating for 62 years under
territorial laws. New Mexico became a
state in 1912, when it was made the
forty-seventh state in the union.

New Mexico has thirty-two counties.

In eleven counties, formed between 1852
and 1869, the U. S. Census schedules
are available.

Birth and death records from 1919
are at the office of the State Health
Department, Santa Fe, N. M. They are
not complete.

The County Clerk in each county seat
has marriage records, wills, property
deeds, and administration of estates.

Land grants are at the office of the
State Land Office in Santa Fe, N. M.

Tax payers lists are at the office of
the County Assessors, war service re-
cords at the office of the Adjutant Gen-
eral, cemetery records with the cemetery
boards, and guardianship proceedings
with the district courts.

Valuable genealogical information is
contained in hundreds of volumes in the
Stephen Watts Kearney Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
in Santa Fe and the New Mexico His-
torical Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Other libraries in the larger cities have
also much genealogical information. Al-
buquerque, (Bernalillo), Public Library,
423 E. Central Ave., (Southwest lore);
University of New Mexico Library, (Mex-
ican and South American publications
and history. Southwest lore); Santa Fe,
(Santa Fe), Nwe Mexico State Library
Commission, 301 Don Caspar, (South-
western lore).

New Mexico County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

1850-80

1870-80

Bernalillo

1852

146

Catron

1921

Chaves

1887

Colfax

1869

Curry

1909

De Baca

1917

Dona Ana

1852

Eddy

1887

Grant

1868

Guadalupe

1905

Harding

1921

Hidalgo

1920

Lea

1917

Lincoln

1880

Los Alamos

1949

Luna

1901

McKinley

1899

Mora

1859

Otero

1899

1860-80

1870-80

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Original county Albuquerque

Socorro Reserve

Lincoln Roswell

Mora Raton

Quay, Roosevelt Clovis

Chaves, Guadalupe,

Roosevelt Fort Sumner

Original county Las Cruces

Lincoln Carlsbad

Socorro Silver City

Lincoln, San Miguel Santa Rosa

Mora, Union Mosquero

Grant Lordsburg

Chaves, Eddy Lovington

Socorro Carrizozo

Sandoval, Santa Fe Los Alamos

Dona Ana, Grant Deming

Bernalillo, Valencia, San Juan .... Gallup

San Miguel Mora

Dona Ana, Lincoln, Socorro .. Alamogordo

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed By M

Available

Quay

1903

Rio Arriba

1852

1850-80

Roosevelt

1903

Sandoval

1903

San Juan

1887

San Miguel

1852

1850-80

Santa Fe

1852

1860-80

Sierra

1884

Socorro

1852

1860-80

Taos

1852

1850-80

Torrance

1903

Union

1895

Valencia

1852

1850-80

Parent County

County Seat

Chaves Tucumcari

Original county Tierra Amarilla

Chaves Portales

Rio Arriba Bernalillo

Rio Arriba Aztec

Original county Las Vegas

Original county Santa Fe

Socorro Hot Springs

Original county Socorro

Original county Taos

Lincoln, San Miguel,

Socorro, Santa Fe Estancia

Colfax, Mora, San Miguel Clayton

Original county Los Lunas

U. S. Census reports for discontinued counties: Arizona, 1860; Santa Ana, 1850-70.

County Map of New Mexico

RIO ARRIBA

LOS ALAMOS

CX3NA ANA

New York

Capital, Albany

The Dutch settled New York in 1624 mainly built up on the southern end of

when they established a colony at Al- the- Manhattan Island, there were 60,000

bany, then called Fort Orange. The next persons in the city; in 1830 there were

year other settlers from Holland came 200,000, of which 80,000 had arrived in

to New York City, then New Amster- the previous ten years; by 1860 it had

dam. Previously, at least two explorers, increased four-fold, and numbered 807,-

Hudson and Champlain, had looked over 000; in 1900, almost 3,500,000.

the territory. New York is described as a land of

In the next few years the Dutch in- many tongues, not less than sixty lang-

duced individuals from Scandinavia, uages being heard. The predominating

Great Britain, and Germany to come nationalities are Italian, Russian, Ger-

with them to the New World. man, Polish, Irish, Austrian, English,

Many Puritan families in Massachu- Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech,

setts and Connecticut drifted south into Greek, French, Finish and Danish.

New York around 1640. Some sixty The researcher interested in New

years later German families came into York records should first of all, before

the Mohawk Valley looking for places undertaking any search whatsoever,

in which to build their homes. About spend a day or two or more carefully

the same time French settlers were reading Rosalie Fellows Bailey's "Guide

straggling into the new section from to Genealogical Sources for New York

Canada. Other French families, together City, 1783-1898." The Guide "is in its

with some Spaniards and Portuguese, field one of the most important, perhaps

disturbed by the uprisings in the West the most important, in the United

Indies, where they had been for some States." This most worthy appraisal

time, sought refuge in New York. comes from one of the foremost present-

The total population of the colony in day genealogists, an individual who ha.s

1740 was established at only 50,000. About devoted much thought and energy to the

that time many former Connecticut science of genealogy. Carefully adhear-

dwellers went across the sound and ing to Miss Bailey's suggestions in her

settled in Long Island. Others came in- valuable treatise "will give reasonable

to Dutchess, Westchester and Orange hope that any problem within its limit of

counties. A population check previous to time and place may be solved."

the outbreak of the Revolutionary War Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from

would find settlers on Long Island, on 1880 to present, for the entire state

the banks of the Hudson River, a few exclusive of all New York City records

Palatine Germans along the Mohav/k and certain records of Albany, Buffalo

River and some New Englanders in the and Yonkers, noted below, are in the

extreme south-eastern part of the state, charge of the Director, Office of Vital

In 1776 New York broke with the Statistics, State Department of Health,

Mother Country, and joined the other Alfred E. Smith State Office Building,

colonies in their fight for freedom. This Albany. The records of Albany, Buffalo

struggle continued until 1781. Seven and Yonkers not on file in the Health

years later New York became the elev- Department but available in the regis-

enth state in the Union by ratifying the trars' office of the cities concerned are:

constitution. Births and deaths prior to Jan. 1, 1914;

The New York state census reports marriages prior to Jan. 1, 1908. The
show these populations: in 1790 340,120 central office for New York City vital
(surpassed by Virginia, Pennsylvania, records is Board of Health, 125 Worth
North Carolina and Massachusetts); in Street, New York City. For data on
1800, 589,051 (surpassed by Virginia and records prior to 1880, when the Depart-
Pennsylvania); in 1810, 959,049 (sur- ment of Health became the central de-
passed only by Virginia);^ in 1820, pository for the state, see Historical
1,049,458 (surpassed by none); in 1830, records .survey. New York State, "Guide
1,918,608; in 1840. 2,428,921; in 1850, to Public Vital Statistics in New York
3,097,394; in 1860, 3,880.735. State," 1942, 3v. wherein the status of

In 1800 when New York City was the vital records of each community is

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112 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

given. Slate and Federal Census Records,"
Marriage Bonds, from 1752 to 1784, 1942, showing the available schedules
originally 40v., are in charge of Asso- from each county. From one to 14 dif-
ciate Librarian, Manuscripts and History ferent schedules are on hand at the
Section, New York State Library, Al- office of the County Clerk of each
bany. These and other licenses, some county. In addition to those noted
as early as, 1641 which are contained therein, the Manuscripts and History
in other series filed in the State Library, Section, New York State Library has
are indexed in Secretary of State, microfilm of the 1800, 1810, and 1830
"Names of Persons for Whom Marriage P'ederal Censuses for New York State.
Licenses were Issued by the Secretary Originals are on file in the National
of the Province of New York Previous Archives, Washington, D. C.
to 1784." 1860. See also "Supplemen- Tax Payers Lists — The New York
tary List of Marriage Licenses," (State State Library, Manuscripts and History
Library Bulletin, History No. 1, April Section, Albany, has some assessment
1898) for list of bonds for years 1752- rolls in its collections, both public and
53, 1755-56, and 1758, formerly bound private. No inventory of them is avail-
as V.41 of Marriage Bonds. able.

Wills — usually in county surrogates' Local divisions of government — county,

office. For other wills see Berthold town, etc. — frequently have such re-

Fernow ed., "Calendar of Wills on File cords on file.

and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk Church or Parish Records Transferred
of the Court of Appeals, of the County to State — In the custody of the Associ-
Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary ate Librarian, Manuscripts and History
of State, 1626-1836," 1896. For abstracts Section, New York State Library, Al-
of wills on file in the Surrogate's of- bany, is a large collection of church re-
fice, City of New York, 1665-1800, see cords, originals and copies. See Histor-
New York Historical Society, "Collec- ical Records Survey, New York State,
tions." v.25-41. Included therein are "Guide to Vital Statistics Records of
wills for the southern district of New Churches in New York State," 1942 2v.
York State, for information concerning those on
In the Manuscripts and History Sec- file in the State Library and elsewhere,
ticn, New York State Library are wills. War Service Records — Colonial and
1823-1940, of non-resident property Revolutionary war service records for
owners. New York State are in the custody of
Deeds and Land Grants — deeds are the Associate Librarian, Manuscripts and
usually on file in the county clerk's History Section, New York State Li-
offices, brary, Albany. War of 1812, 1860-65,
The following are state records: Spanish-American, World War I and
Patents, land papers, deeds 1630-64 World War II records for this state
(Dutch) in New York Colonial Manu- are in the office of the Adjutant Gen-
scripts, v.GG and HH in custody of Asso- eral. Bureau of War Records, 112 State
ciate Librarian, Manuscripts and His- Street, Albany.

tory Section, New York State Library, Cemetery Records — The Manuscripts
Albany. and History Section, New York State
New York Colonial Manuscripts in- Library, Albany, has a large collection
dorsed Land Papers, 1643-1803. Same of New York State cemetery records,
custody as preceding. Guardianship and Orphan Court Pro-
Deeds, including mortgages and re- ceedings — In custody of county surro-
leases to state, 1642 to present, in cus- gate's offices.

tody of Secretary, Land Board, Depart- New York Libraries — Albany, (Albany),

ment of State, 164 State Street, Albany. New York State Library (state and local

Letters — Patent of Lands, 1664-1878. histories and genealogy). Binghampton,

Custody same as preceding. (Broome), Public Library, 78 Exchange

Census Records — All schedules of the St. Brooklyn, (Kings), Public Library,

Federal Census from 1790 to and in- Grand Army Plaza, (Civil War Records) ;

eluding 1940 are at Bureau of the Cen- Long Island Historical Society, Library,

sus, Washington, D. C. 128 Pierrepont St. (local and personal

From the State Librarian, New York histories); St. Johns University Library,

State Library, Albany, N. Y., may be 75 Lewis Ave. (Irish History). Buffalo,

obtained "An Inventory of New York (Erie), Public Library, 120 W. Eagle St.;

NEW YORK

113

The Grosvenor Library, Edward and
Franklin Sts., (genealogy and local his-
tory). Cooperstown, (Otsego), New York
State Association Library, (community
and personal histories). Ithaca, (Tomp-
kins), Cornell University Library, (col-
lections on Iceland, history of the states,
Civil War). New York City, (N. Y.),
American Irish Historical Society Li-
brary, 991 Fifth Ave., (Irish in colonial
America and later, genealogy, personal
histories); Columbia University Librar-
ies, 535 W. 114th St., School of Journa-
lism, (newspaper files); Editor and Pub-
lisher Library, 1475 Broadway, (news-
paper files); Fordham University, Duane
Library, (early American collections);
The Holland Society of New York Li-
brary, 90 West St., (genealogical collec-
tions) ; National Lutheran Council Li-
brary, 50 Madison Ave., (history of Lu-
theran Church in America); New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society
Library, 122 E. 58th St.; New York Her-
ald Tribune Library, 230 W. 41st. St.
(newspaper collection); The New York
Historical Society Library, 170 Central
Park West, (genealogy, newspapers, lo-
cal histories of N. Y.); The New York
Public Library, fifth Ave. and 42nd St.,
(Irish History, Local History, British and
American genealogies, manuscript per-
sonal histories); New York Times Li-
brary, 229 W. 43rd St., (more than a mil-
lian biographical files) ; Sons of the Rev-
olution Library, 54 Pearl St.; James T.
White & Co. Library, 101 Fifth Ave.,
(state, county and personal histories)
Rochester, (Monroe), Public Library,
115 South Ave., (Rochester Historical
Society collection); University of Ro-
chester Library, (Western New York
hi.story collection). Syracuse, (Onondaga).
Public Library, 335 Montgomery Street,
(local histories and genealogies).

Thousands upon thousands of volumes
have been written about New York people
and communities and every library in
the nation have some of them on its
shelves. Just to make a mere mention,
consider these, some of whch are very
valuable:

Barber, John W. and Howe, Henry.
Historical Collections o/ the State of New
York. 608 pp. New York. 1841.

Census o[ New York, 1790, First Federal
Census. 308 pp. Washington, D. C, 1908.

New York Genealogical and Biographical
Record, a quarterly magazine. Eighty seven
volumes. 1870-1956.

New York Historical Society Collections.
Sixty six volumes. 1868-1923.

O'Callaghan, E. B. The Documentary
History o[ the State of New York. Vol. I,
536 pp. A roll of names and surnames of
1689; N.Y. Army List of 1700; 1702. 1714
and 1720 Census of Orange, Dutches and
Albany counties; 1703 Census of N. Y. City;
inhabitants of Hempstead in 1673; roll of
those taking oath of allegiance in N. Y. in
1687; inhabitants in 1698. Vol. II. 1676 As-
sessment Rolls; 711 pp.. Vol. III. Early
Immigrants to New Netherlands, 1657-
1664. and where they came from; restora-
tion of N. Y. to the English; state of re-
ligion in province; names of some resi-
dents in 1737; papers relating to the Pala-
tines and the first settlement of Newburgh,
Orange Co.; Ulster County Freeholders in
1728; Quakers and Moravians; state of
Anglo-American Church. 748 pp. Vol 4,
Journal of New Netherland. 1647; a descrip-
tion of New Netherland in 1644; 1663 massa-
cre of Wildwyck, now Kingston; assessment
rolls of the five Dutch towns of Kings
Co.. L. I. in 1675; census of Flat Bush.
Flatt Lands, Gravesend. New Utrecht.
Brockland, Bushwyck, Suffolk County,
Dutchess County, and soldier lists, all of
1738; 674 pp. Weed. Parsons and Company,
Albany, N. Y.. 1850.

New York County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census]

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Albany

1683

239

1790-80

Allegany

1806

1810-80

Bronx

1914

1451

Broome

1806

185

1810-80

Cattaraugus E2

1808

1810-80

Cayuga

1799

1800-80

Chautauqua

1808

135

1810-80

Chemung

1836

1840-80

Parent County County Seat

Original county Albany

Genessee Belmont

New York Bronx

Tioga Binghamton

Genesee Little Vallley

Onondaga Auburn

Genesee Mayville

Tioga Elmira

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census

Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Chenango C2 1798 39 1800-80 Herkimer Norwich

Clinton Al 1788 54 1790-80 Washington Plattsburg

Columbia B3 1786 43 1790-80 Albany Hudson

Cortland C2 1808 32 1820-80 Onondaga Cortland

Delaware B3 1797 44 1800-80 Luster .Otsego Delhi

Dutchess B3 1683 137 1790-SO Original county Poughkeepsie

Erie D2 1821 899 1830-80 Niagara Buffalo

NEW YORK

115

Census

Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Essex A2 1199 35 1800-80 Clinton Elizabethtown

Franklin Al 1808 45 1810-80 Clinton Malone

Fulton B2 1838 51 1840-80 Montgomery Johnstown

Genesee Dl 1802 48 1810-80 Ontario Batavia

Greene B3 1800 29 1800-80 Ulster, Albany Catskill

Hamilton B2 1816 4 1820-80 Montgomery Lake Pleasant

Herkimer B2 1791 61 1800-80 Montgomery Herkimer

Jefferson Bl 1805 86 1810-80 Oneida Watertown

Kings B4 1683 2738 1790-80 Original county Brooklyn

Lewis Bl 1806 23 1810-80 Oneida Lowville

Livingston D2 1821 40 1830-80 Genesee, Ontario Geneseo

Madison C2 1806 46 1810-80 Chenango Wampsville

Monroe Dl 1821 488 1830-80 Genesee Rochester

Montgomery B2 1772 60 1790-80 Albany Fonda

Nassau B4 1899 673 Queens Mineola

New York B4 1683 1960 1790-80 Original county New York

Niagra Dl 1808 190 1810-80 Genesee Lockport

Oneida B2 1798 223 1800-80 Herkimer Utica, Rome

Onondaga C2 1798 342 1800-80 Herkimer Syracuse

Ontario D2 1789 60 1790-80 Montgomery Canandaigua

Orange B4 1683 152 1790-80 Original county Goshen

Orleans Dl 1824 30 1830-80 Genesee Albion

Oswego C2 1816 77 1820-80 Oneida Oswego, Pulaski

Otsego B2 1791 51 1800-80 Montgomery Cooperstown

Putnam B4 1812 20 1820-80 Dutchess Carmel

Queens B4 1551 1800-80 New York Jamaica

Rensselaer A3 1791 133 1800-80 Albany Troy

Richmond B4 1683 192 1790-80 Original county St. George

Rockland B4 1798 89 1800-80 Orange New City

St. Lawrence Bl 1802 99 1810-80 Clinton Canton

Saratoga A2 1791 75 1800-80 Albany Ballston Spa

Schenectady B2 1809 142 1810-80 Albany Schenectady

Schoharie B3 1795 23 1800-80 Albany, Ostego Schoharie

Schuyler D2 1859 14 1860-80 Tompkins, Steuben.

Ostego, Chenango Watkins Glen

Seneca C2 1804 29 1810-80 Cayuga Ovid, Waterloo

Steuben D2 1796 91 1800-80 Ontario Bath

Suffolk B4 1685 276 1790-80 Original county Riverhead

Sullivan B3 1809 41 1810-80 Ulster Monticello

Tioga C3 1791 30 1800-80 Montgomery Owego

Tompkins C2 1817 59 1820-80 Cayuga, Seneca Ithaca

Ulster B3 1683 93 1790-80 Original county Kingston

Warren A2 1813 39 1820-80 Washington Lake George

Washington A2 1772 47 1790-80 Albany Hudson Falls

Wayne C2 1827 57 1830-80 Ontario, Seneca Lyons

Westchester B4 1683 626 1790-80 Original county White Plains

Wyoming D2 1841 33 1850-80 Genesee Warsaw

Yates D2 1823 18 1830-80 Ontario Penn Yan

U. S. Census Notes — The 1810 schedules of Cattaraugus and Chautauques
counties are included with those of Niagara, vol. 4, all of the schedules for Erie

county include those of the city of Buffalo; all Kings County schedules include
city of Brooklyn; all New York County schedules include those of the city of New

York; the 1870 census for New York's 22 wards contains an original enumeration
and re-enumeration.

North Carolina

Capital, Raleigh

The first permanent settlement in "banns" published or announced from

North Carolina territory was established the pulpit or they could buy a license.

^___ ^ - ,^, Those married by license had to furnish

in 1653 when groups of settlers came .... a -u a rj.. ^A

^ ^ a fifty pound bond. Those old marriage

south from Virginia to occupy the sec- bo^ds. many of which are still in the
tion north of the Albemarle Sound. The county court houses, are full of gen-
influx of new settlers was so limited that ealogical information. In the parish reg-
in an eighty year period the population isters kept by the priests were re-
had increased only to about 14,000. cords of births, deaths and marriages.

For several years prior to the Revo- Some of the old parish records are in
lution. Highland Scotch immigrants were the office of the State Historical Corn-
arriving frequently in the North Caro- mission, though some are still in the
lina section. Most of them established offices of the County Clerk or the Coun-
themselves in the southeast section. So ty Register of Deeds.

rapidly did they arrive that in a few The National Archives have the Cen-

years there were more than 20,000 of sus schedules for all of the North Caro-

them in that territory. lina counties. Almost half of the hun-

When large groups of Scotch-Irish de- dred counties were represented in the
parted from Pennsylvania down the Shen- 1790 Federal Census,
andoah Valley to settle in Virginia, many North Carolina libraries — Charlotte,
continued on into North Carolina. For (Mecklenburg), Public Library 310 N.
religious reasons they had been banished Tryon St.; Durham, (Durham), Duke
from Scotland, where their strong Pro- University Library, (Southern history,
testant views irked the religious leaders, lore, and newspapers); Raleigh, (Wake),
Thousands of them were transplanted in- North Carolina State Library, Morgan
to Ireland, where they remained long St., (South history and genealogy) ; Win-
enough to get an opportunity to come to ston-Salem, (Forsyth). Carnegie Public
the New World. Many of them estab- Library,
lished homes in the western section of the Books on North Carolina:
state, around the present region of Ire- Allen, W. C. The Annals o/ Haywood
dell County. County, N. C, historical, sociological, bi-

Many Germans came into North Caro- ographical. and genealogical. 632 pp. 1935.

lina in the early days. In 1760 there Crittenden, Charles Christopher and

were about 15,000 in Forsyth and Guil- Lacy, Dan. The Historical Records o[ North

ford counties. A colony of English speak- Carolina. Vol. I. 491 pp. County Records of

ing Quakers from Virginia, Pennsyl- Alamance through Columbus Counties. Vol.

vania, and Nantucket, Mass., settled in II. 568 pp. Craven through Moore Counties.

Rockingham, Guilford, and Chatham Vol III. 760 pp. Nash through Yancey Coun-

counties. Disliking slavery, they later ties. North Carolina Historical Commission,

moved to Ohio and Indiana. However, Raleigh. 1939.

some of them remained and their de- Griffen, Clarence W. History ot Old

scendants are still in North Carolina. Tryon and Rutherford Counties, N. C, 1730-

Before the Revolution, the Church of 1936. 640 pp. The Miller Printing Co., Ashe-
England was in "power" in North Caro- ville. N. C. 1937.

lina as in Virginia. Only the ordained Grimes, J. Bryan. North Carolina Wills

ministers of that church were permitted and Inventories, 587 pp. Abstract of Wills,

to perform marriage ceremonies. Those 1690-1760. 670 pp. Edwards 6 Broughton

who wished to marry could have their Printing Co.. Raleigh. 1912.

North Carolina County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By Iv! Available Parent County County Seat

Alamance Dl 1849 71 1850-80 Orange Graham

Albemarle Al 1663 1 of 3 original cos. discontinued in 1751

116

NORTH CAROLINA

117

Map

Date

Pop.

Census
Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Alexander

1847

1850-80

Alleghany

1859

1860-80

Anson

1750

1790-80

Ashe

1799

1800-80

Avery

1911

Bath

1696

Beaufort

1712

1790-80

Bertie

1722

1790-80

Bladen

1734

1790-80

Brunswick

1764

1790-80

Buncombe

1791

124

1800-80

Burke

1777

1790-80

Bute

1764

Cabarrus

1792

1800-80

Caldwell

1841

1850-80

Camden

1777

1790-80

Cartaret

1722

1790-80

Caswell

1777

1800-80

Catawba

1842

1850-80

Chatham

1771

1790-80

Cherokee

1839

1840-80

Chowan

1670

1790-80

Clay

1861

1870-80

Cleveland

1841

1850-80

Columbus

1808

1810-80

Craven

1712

*1790-80

Cumberlanc

1754

1790-80

Currituck

1670

**1790-S0

Dare

1870

1870-80

Davidson

1822

1830-80

Davie

1836

1840-80

Dobbs

1758

Duplin

1750

1790-80

Durham

1881

102

Edgecombe

1741

1790-80

Forsyth

1849

146

1850-80

Franklin

1779

**1800-80

Gaston

1846

111

1850-80

Gates

1779

1800-80

Glasgow

1791

Graham

1872

1800

Granville

1746

1800-80

Greene

1791

* 1800-80

Guilford

1771

191

1790-80

Halifax

1758

1790-80

Harnett

1855

1860-80

Haywood

1808

1810-80

Henderson

1838

1840-80

Hertford

1759

1790-80

Hoke

1911

Hyde

1712

1790-80

Iredell

1788

1790-80

Jackson

1851

1860-80

Johnston

1746

1790-80

Jones

1778

1790-80

Lee

1907

Lenoir

1791

1800-80

Lincoln

1779

1790-80

Macon

1728

1830-80

Parent County County Seat

Iredell, Caldwell & Wilkes .... Taylorsville

Ashe Sparta

Bladen Wadesboro

Wilkes Jefferson

Caldwell, Mitchell & Watauga .... Newland
Discontinued in 1739

Bath Washington

Chowan, Bath Windsor

New Hanover, Bath Elizabethtown

New Hanover, Bladen Southport

Burke, Rutherford Asheville

Rowan Morganton

AJpl. 1779

Mecklenburg Concord

Burke, Wilkes Lenoir

Pasquotank Camden

Bath Beaufort

Orange Yanceyville

Lincoln Newton

Orange Pittsboro

Macon Murphy

Prec. Albemarle Edenton

Cherokee Hayesville

Rutherford, Lincoln Shelby

Bladen, Brunswick Whiteville

Prec. Bath Co New Bern

Bladen Fayetteville

Albemarle Currituck

Currituck, Tyrell Manteo

Rowan Lexington

Rowan Mocksville

Johnston, abol. 1791

New Hanover Kenansville

Orange, Wake Durham

Bertie Tarboro

Stokes Winston-Salem

Bute Louisburg

Lincoln Gastonia

Chowan, Hertford Gatesville

Discontinued 1799

Cherokee Robbinsville

Edgecombe, Orig. Glasgow Oxford

Dobbs Snow Hill

Rowan, Orange Greensboro

Edgecombe Halifax

Cumberland Lillington

Buncombe Waynesville

Buncombe Hendersonville

Bertie, Chowan, Northampton .... Winton

Cumberland, Robeson Raeford

Wickham, Pres.

Bath County Swanquarter

Rowan Statesville

Haywood, Macon Sylva

Craven Smithfield

Craven Trenton

Chatham, Harnett, Moore Sanford

Dobbs Kinston

Tyron Lincolnton

Haywood Franklin

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Madison D4 1851 21 1860-80 Buncombe, Yancey Marshall

Martin Bl 1774 28 1790-80 Halifax, Tyrell Williamston

McDowell D4 1842 26 1850-80 Burke, Rutherford Marion

Mecklenburg E2 1762 197 1790-80 Anson Charlotte

Mitchell D4 1861 15 1870-80 Burke, Caldwell,

McDowell, Watauga Bakersville

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119

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Montgomery D2

1779

**1790-80

Moore

1784

1790-80

Nash

1777

1790-80

New Hanover B3

1729

*1790-80

Northampton Bl

1741

1790-80

Onslow

1734

1790-80

Orange

1752

1800-80

Pamlico

1872

1880

Pasquotank

1670

1790-80

Pender

1875

1880

Perquimans

1670

1790-80

Person

1791

1800-80

Pitt

1760

1790-80

Polk

1855

1860-80

Randolph

1779

** 1790-80

Richmond

1779

1790-80

Robeson

1787

1790-80

Rockingham Dl

1785

1790-80

Rowan

1753

1790-80

Rutherford

1779

1790-80

Sampson

1784

1790-80

Scotland

1899

Stanly

1841

1850-80

Stokes

1789

1790-80

Surry

1771

1790-80

Swain

1871

1880

Transylvania D4

1861

1870-80

Tyrrell

1729

1790-80

Union

1842

1850-80

Vance

1881

Wake*

1771

136

** 1790-80

Warren

1779

1790-80

Washington

1799

1800-80

Watauga

1849

1850-80

Wayne

1779

1790-80

Wilkes

1777

1790-80

Wilson

1855

1860-80

Yadkin El 1850 22 1860-80

Yancey D4 1833 16 1840-80

*1810 Census schedule missing.

**1820 Census schedule missing.

Parent County County Seat

Anson Troy

Cumberland Carthage

Edgecombe Nashville

Preceding Bath Wilmington

Bertie Jackson

Preceding Bath Jacksonville

Bladen, Granville Hillsboro

Beaufort, Craven Bayboro

Prec. Albemarle Elizabeth City

New Hanover Burgaw

Prec. Albemarle Hertford

Caswell Roxboro

Beaufort Greenville

Henderson, Rutherford Columbus

Guilford Asheboro

Anson Rockingham

Bladen Lumberton

Guilford Wentworth

Anson Salisbury

Burke, Tyron Rutherfordton

Duplin, New Hanover Clinton

Richmond Laurinburg

Montgomery Albemarle

Surry Danbury

Rowan Dobson

Jackson, Macon Bryson City

Henderson, Jackson Brevard

Prec. Albemarle Columbia

Anson Mecklenburg Monroe

Franklin, Granville, Warren .... Henderson
Cumberland, Johnston, Orange .... Raleigh

Bute, Abol. 1779 Warrenton

Tyrrell Plymouth

Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes, Yancey .... Boone

Craven, Dobbs Goldsboro

Burke, Surry Wilkesboro

Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash,

Wayne Wilson

Surry Yadkinville

Buncombe, Burke Burnsville

North Dakota

Capital, Bismarck

Many Indian tribes roamed the Dakota
plains when the white man began to
build the mid-section of the American
continent. Although explorers had visit-
ed the section off and on since the
early 1700s, it was not until 1851 that
the region was thrown open for settle-
ment.

The first settlers were attracted there
by the highly productive Red River

district soil. That river is the boundary
line between North Dakota and Minne-
sota. Farm folks from the northern
European countries, especially from
Norway, came there in large numbers
in the mid 1800s. In the early days of
the section, bloody skirmishes between
the Redmen and the settlers were com-
mon place occurances.

The Dakota Territory was organized

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

in 1861. It embraced the two Dakotas
and Montana and Wyoming. In 1864 the
Wyoming and Montana parts of the
territory were formed into a separate
section as the Montana Territory. The
remaining Dakota Territory was divided
about equally, north and south, into
North Dakota and South Dakota about
1873. In 1889 North Dakota became the
thirty-ninth state in the Union.

It was the vision of homes and fertile
acres, big barns and cattle, that drew
the poor peasants of northern and mid-
dle Europe to North Dakota. From
Norway they came in the largest num-
bers, scattering all over the state. They
were accompanied by large groups of
Swedes, Danes and Icelanders, while
numbers of Czechs, Poles and Dutch also
came at that time. Previously French-
Canadians came down from the north
following the Red River. Many Germans
and other Europeans settled around Bis-
marck and the south-central counties
as indicated by the many German place

names in that area, like Lepzig, Strass-
burg, and Danzig.

Genealogical records are difficult to
obtain in North Dakota. No birth or
death records are obtainable from the
county offices. They must come from the
office of the State Registrar of Vital
Statistics, Bismarck, N. D. Marriag?
records are also on file there, but may
also be secured from the Judge of the
county in which the ceremony was per-
formed.

The County Clerks have charge of all
estate matters and wills. The Register
of deeds has charge of deeds and land
titles.

North Dakota Libraries — Bismarck,
(Burleigh), State Library, (North Dakota
lore); Fargo, (Cass), Public Library;
North Dakota Agricultural Colllege Li-
brary; Grand Forks, (Grand Forks),
University of North Dakota Library,
(North Dakota and Scandinavian lore);
Minot, (Ward), Public Library; North
Dakota State Teachers College Library.

North Dakota County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Adams

1907

Barnes

1875

1880

Benson

1883

Billings

1879

1880

Bottineau

1873

1884

Bowman

1883

Burke

1910

Burleigh

1873

1800

Cass

1873

1880

Cavalier

1873

1880

Dickey

1881

Divide

1910

Dunn

1883

Eddy

1885

Emmons

1879

1880

Foster

1873

1880

Golden Valley F3

1912

Grand Forks A2

1879

1880

Grant

1916

Griggs

1881

Hettinger

1883

Kidder

1873

1880

LaMoure

1873

1880

Logan

1873

1880

McHenry

1873

1880

Mcintosh

1883

McKenzie

1883

McLean

1883

Mercer

1875

1880

Parent County County Seat

Stark Hettinger

Cass -^ Valley City

Ramsey Minnewaukan

Unorganized Territory Medora

Unorganized Territory Bottineau

Billings Bowman

Ward Bowbells

Buffalo discontinued Bismarck

Original county Fargo

Pembina Langdon

Lamoure Ellendale

Williams Crosby

Howard discontinued Manning

Foster New Rockford

Unorganized Territory Linton

Pembina Carrington

Billings Beach

Pembina Grand Forks

Morton Carson

Foster Cooperstown

Stark Mott

Buffalo Steele

Pembina La Moure

Buffalo Napoleon

Buffalo Towner

Logan Ashley

Howard Watford City

Stevens Washburn

Original county Stanton

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Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Morton

1878

1880

Mountrail

1909

Nelson

1883

Oliver

1885

Pembina

1871

1880

Pierce

1887

Ramsey

1873

1880

Ransom

1873

1880

Renville

1873

1880

Richland

1873

1880

Rolette

1873

1880

Sargent

1883

Sheridan

1873

1880

Sioux

1914

Slope

1915

Stark

1879

1880

Steele

1871

1880

Stutsman

1873

1880

Towner

1885

Traill

1875

1880

Walsh

1881

Ward

1885

Wells

1881

Williams

1890

Parent County County Seat

Original county Mandan

Ward Stanley

(Old Mountrail annexed to Ward in 1891)

Foster, Grand Forks Lakota

Mercer Center

Indian Lands Cavalier

De Smet Rugby

Pembina Devils Lake

Pembina Lisbon

Duel, Pembina Mohall

Original county Wahpeton

Buffalo Rolla

Ransom Forman

Buffalo McClusky

Standing Rock Reservation .... Fort Yates

Billings Amidon

Unorganized Territory Dickinson

Original county Finley

Pembina Jamestown

Rollette Cando

Grand Forks Hillsboro

Grand Forks Grafton

Renville Minot

Sheridan Fessenden

Mountrail Williston

Ohi

Capital, Columbus

Prior to the mid-1700s the established
American communities were located east
of the Alleghenies along the Atlantic
Coast. The constantly increasing popula-
tion was ever on the alert for the best
available land at the lowest possibJe
cost. The presence of numerous Indian
tribes prevented the land-longing immi-
grants from going too far away from
the colonies established along the At-
lantic sea coast.

For a long time the French and the
British had quarrelled over the owner-
ship of a large tract east of the Missis-
sippi, between the Ohio River and Can-
ada. After France had rescinded all
claims to the territory and had trans-
ferred jurisdiction of the area to Brit-
ain, the United States claimed posses-
sion by virtue of its victory over the
British in the Revolutionary War.

The idea then prevailed for a time
that the boundary lines of the original
colonies would be extended westv/ard
to include the newly acquired territory.
After the creation of the Northwest
Territory in 1787 that idea was discard-

ed. Instead the central government de-
cided the land should be used to pay
off the soldiers in the Revolutionary
War and it was opened for settlement
through the Ordinance of 1787 establish-
ing the Northwest Territory.

Within sixty-one years five full states
and part of a sixth had been created
and admitted into the union from the
Northwest Territory.

Massachusetts and Connecticut not-
too-ardent Puritans formed the Ohio
Company which purchased about a mil-
lion acres of land for two-thirds of a
dollar per acre, including what after-
wards became Washington, Noble, Mor-
gan, Athens, Meigs, and Gallia coun-
ties.

Known as the Virginia Military Boun-
ty, about four and a quarter mllion
acres were set aside between the Scioto
and the Little Miami Rivers for settle-
ment by Virginians and Kentuckians
about 1800.

The Chillicote section in Ross County
attracted many impatient and unre-
strained Kentuckians and Tennesians.

OHIO 123

During the last two or three years in Residents of Maryland settled in Sen-
the 1870s' two other districts were eca County.

thrown open to settlers. The first of From Massachusetts came settlers to
these movements brought large groups Knox, Meigs and Washington counties,
of Scotch-Irish, Germans and Quakers Many New Englanders came to Ath-
from the neighboring Pennsylvania, ens, Knox, Lorain, Crawford, and Wood
across the Ohio to the section from whicli counties.

later were created Columbiana, Carroll. From New Jersey came many people
Jefferson, Harrison, Belmont, and Mori- to Hamilton, Warren and Logan coun-
roe counties. ties.

The second of these migrations brought From North Carolina came settlers
settlers from New Jersey floating down to Clinton and Highland counties,
the Ohio and settling the area between From New York early settlers estaii-
thc two Miami Rivers, the Little and Ushed themselves in Delaware and Sen-
tho Big. They and some Scotch-Irish and eca counties.

Dutch began the cultivation of some 300,- From Pennsylvania settlers came to
000 acres in that southwestern corner Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Coshoctoi,
of Ohio. Cincinnati became an important Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Tuscarawas,
part of that colonization. Ashland, Clinton, Highland, Pickaway,

After General Anthony Wayne and Pike, Miami, Allen, Hancock, Logan,
his United States' forces had driven the Putnam, and Seneca counties,
hostile Indian tribes westward from the From Scotland came immigrants to
Lake Erie section in 1794, another four Knox County.

million acre tract, known as the West- Scotch-Irish settlers came into Col-
ern Reserve, was opened for settlement umbiana County.

in the northeast corner of Ohio, along Virginians settled in Jefferson, Mon-
Lake Erie. It was settled mainly by roe, Coshoctan, Hocking, Jackson, Adams,
former Connecticut residents. Closely Fayette, Greene, Pickaway, Pike, Ross,
allied with that project was the settle- and Logan counties.

ment of the half-a-million acres in what From We$t Virginia settlers found
became the Erie and the Huron county their way into Tuscawara County,
just south of Lake Erie. The settlers of in 1799 Ohio was organized as*^ a terri-
that tract were also former Connect!- tory included in which was the Indiana
cut residents whose holdings had been section. The very next year, Indiana was
burned out by the British during the organized as a Territory, and in 1803
Revolutionary War. For that reason Ohio became a state ,the seventeenth
that section was often referred to as in the Union,
"the Fire Lands." Birth and death records before 1909

During the War, English colonists are in the custody of the Clerks of the
and Tories were moved west from the Probate Court in the respective coun-
seaboard colonies to a narrow tract ties, and in the offices of the City
four or five counties wide about straight Board of Health. From 1909 to the pre-
west of the present Wheeling, W. Va, sent the records are in the charge of the
It was known as the Refugee Tract. Department of Health, Columbus, Ohio.

After 1815 the large north-western sec- Marriage records and licenses are on
tion of the state was thrown open to file in each county office of the Clerk
settlers who flocked there from east and of the Probate Court, where are also
south. The opening of the Erie Canal records of wills and real estate mat-
m 1825 brought more settlers along that ters.
route from the north-eastern states. Each County Recorder has charge of

Early Connecticut residents later set- land records within the county,
tied in Lawrence, Meigs, Washington Much genealogical information is ob-
Cuyahoga, Erie. Geauga, Huron, and Lake tainable in the following libraries:
counties. Akron, (Summit), Akron Beacon Journal

French immigrants established homes Library, 44 E. Exchange St., (news-
in Gallia County. papers); Public Library, 11 Summit St.;

Germans settled in Columbiana. Noble, Canton, (Stark), Public Library Associa-
Perry, Auglaize, Crawford, Henry, Ot- tion, 326 Third St., S. W.; Cincinnati,
tawa, Wood, and Defiance counties. (Hamilton), Chamber of Commerce Li-

Kentuckians settled in Adams Clin- brary, (historical collections) ; Public Li-
ton, Fayette, Greene and Ross counties, brary, 629 Vine St., (Ohio Valley history

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and genealogy, old family Bibles); Circle-
ville, (Pickaway), Pickaway County Dis-
trict Public Library, Main St., (Ohio his-
tory and genealogical collections); Cleve-
land, (Cuyahoga), City Public Library,
325 Superior Ave., (Ohio lore); County
Public Library, 1150 W. Third St.; West-
ern Reserve Historical Society Library,
10825 East Blvd.; Columbus, (Franklin),
Public Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.; Ohio-
ana Library; Ohio State Archaeological &
Historical Society Library; State Library,
State Office Bldg.; Dayton, (Montgom-
ery), Public Library, 215 E. Third St.,

(Dayton and Miama Valley collections);
Delaware, (Delaware), Ohio Wesleyan
University, (Ohio Methodists Historical
Society); Oxford, (Butler), Miami Uni-
versity Library, (Ohio Valley history);
Portsmouth, (Scioto), Public Library,
(old Northwest Territory collections);
Toledo, (Lucus), Public Library, 325
Michigan St., (Northwestern Ohio his-
tory and genealogy); University of To-
ledo Library, 2801 West Bancroft St.,
(American biographies and histories);
Youngstown (Mahoning), City and Coun-
ty Library, 305 Wick Ave., (local his-
tory and genealogy).

Ohio County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census]

Name

Adams

Allen

Ashland

Ashtabula

Athens

Auglaize

Map
Index

D2
Bl
B3
A4
C3
Bl

Belmont C4

Brown D2

Butler CI

Carroll B4

Champaign C2

Clark C2

Clermont D2

Clinton C2

Columbiana B4

Coshocton B3

Crawford

Cuyahoga

Darke

Defiance

Delaware

Erie

Fairfield

Fayette

Franklin

Fulton

Gallia

Geauga

Greene

Guernesy

Hamilton

Hancock

Hardin

Harrison

Henry

Highland

Hocking

Holmes

B2
A3
CI
Al
B2
A3
C3
C2
C2
A2
D3
A3
C2
C3
Dl
B2
B2
B4
A2
D2
C3
B3

Date Pop.
Formed By M

1797
1820
1846
1807
1805
1848

20
88
33
79
46
31

1801 88

1817 22

1803 147

1832 19

1805
1817
1800
1810
1803
1811
1820
1810
1809
1845
1808
1838
1800
1810
1803
1850
1803
1805
1803
1810
1790
1820
1820
1814
1820
1805
1818
1824

27
112
42
26
99
31
39
1390
42
26
30
53
52
23
503
26
25
27
59
38
724
44
29
19
22
28
20
19

Census
Reports

Available Parent County County Seat

1820-80 1 of 4 Orig. Cos West Union

1830-80 Mercer Lima

1850-80 Wayne Ashland

1820-80 Trumbull Jefferson

1820-80 Washington Athens

1850-80 Allen, Logan, Drake,

Shelby, Mercer Wapakoneta

1820-80 Jefferson St. Clairsville

1820-80 Adams, Clermont Georgetown

1820-80 Hamilton Hamilton

1840-80 Columbiana, Stark,

Harrison, Jefferson Carrollton

1820-80 Greene, Franklin Urbana

1820-80 Champaign, Madison, (Greene .... Springfield

1820-80 Original county Batavia

1820-80 Highland Wilmington

1820-80 Jefferson, Washington Lisbon

1820-80 Muskingum Coshocton

1830-80 Old Indian Territory Bucyrus

1820-80 Geauga Cleveland

1820-80 Miami Greenville

1850-80 Williams, Henry, Paulding Defiance

1820-80 Franklin Delaware

1840-SO Huron, Sandusky Sandusky

1820-80 Franklin Lancaster

1820-80 Ross, Highland Washington C. H.

1830-80 Ross Columbus

1850-80 Lucas, Henry, Williams Wauseon

1820-80 Washington Gallipolis

1820-80 Trumbull Chardon

1820-80 Hamilton, Ross Xenia

1820-80 Belmont Cambridge

1820-80 1 of 4 Orig. Cos Cincinnati

1830-80 Indian Lands Findlay

1820-80 Indian Lands Kenton

1820-80 Jefferson, Tuscarawas Cadiz

1830-80 Wood Napoleon

1820-80 Ross, Adams, Clermont Hillsboro

1820-80 Athens, Ross Logan

1830-80 Coshocton Millersburg

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125

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Huron

1809

1820-80

Jackson

1816

1820-80

Jefferson

1797

1820-80

Knox

1808

1820-80

Lake

1840

1840-80

Lawrence

1816

1820-80

Licking

1817

1820-80

Logan

1817

1820-80

Lorain

1822

148

1830-80

Lucas

1835

396

1840-80

Madison

1810

1820-80

Mahoning

1846

258

1850-80

Marion

1824

1830-80

Medina

1812

1820-80

Meigs

1819

1820-80

Mercer

1820

1820-80

Miami

1807

1820-80

Monroe

1813

1820-80

Montgomer

yCl

1805

398

1820-80

Morgan

1818

1820-80

Morrow

1848

1850-80

Parent County County Seat

Indian Lands Norwalk

Pike Jackson

Original county Steubenville

Fairfield Mt. Vernon

Geauga, Cuyahoga Painesville

Gallia Ironton

Fairfield Newark

Champaign Bellefontaine

Huron, Cuyahoga, Medina Elyria

Wood Toledo

Fayette London

Columbiana, Trumbull Youngstown

Crawford Marion

Portage Medina

Gallia, Athens Pomeroy

Darke Celina

Montgomery Troy

Belmont, Wash., Guernsey .... Woodsfield

Hamilton, Ross Dayton

Washington McConnelsville

Knox( Marion, Delaware,

Richland Mt. Gilead

County Map of Ohio

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Muskingum C3 1804 75 1820-80 Washington, Fairfield Zanesville

Noble 03 1851 12 1860-80 Monroe Caldwell

Ottawa A2 1840 29 1840-80 Erie, Sandusky, Lucas Port Clinton

Paulding Bl 1820 15 1830-80 Indian Lands Paulding

Perry C3 1817 29 1820-80 Washington, Fairfield,

Muskingum New Lexington

Pickaway C2 1810 29 1820-80 Ross, Fairfield, Franklin Circleville

Pike D2 1815 15 1820-80 Ross, Highland, Scioto Waverly

Portage B3 1807 64 1820-80 Trumbull, Jackson Ravenna

Preble CI 1808 27 1820-80 Montgomery, Butler Eaton

Putnam Bl 1820 25 1830-80 Old Indian Territory Ottawa

Richland B3 1813 91 1820-80 Knox Mansfield

Ross C2 1798 54 1800-80 6th Co. from N.-west Terr Chillicothe

Sandusky A2 1820 46 1820-80 Huron Fremont

Scioto D2 1803 83 1820-80 Indian Territory Portsmouth

Seneca B2 1824 83 1820-80 Sandusky Tiffin

Shelby Bl 1819 28 1820-80 Miami Sidney

Stark B3 1809 283 1820-80 Old Indian Land Canton

Summit B3 1840 440 1840-80 Portage, Medina. Stark Akron

Trumbull A4 1800 159 1820-80 Jefferson Warren

Tuscarawas B3 1808 70 1820-80 Jefferson New Philadelphia

Union B2 1820 21 1820-80 Franklin, Madison, Logan .... Marysville

Van Wert Bl 1820 27 1830-80 Indian Territory Van Wert

Vinton C3 1850 11 1850-80 Gallia, Athens, Ross, Jackson .... McArthur

Warren CI 1803 39 1820-80 Hamilton Lebanon

Washington C3 1788 44 1820-80 Original county Marietta

Wayne B3 1796 59 1820-80 Original county Wooster

Williams Al 1834 26 1830-80 Henry Bryan

Wood A2 1820 60 1830-80 Indian Lands Bowling Green

Wyandot B2 1845 20 1850-80 Marion, Crawford,

Hardin, Hancock Upper Sandusky

Census Note — All 1800 and 1810 schedules of the Federal Census are missing;
the 1820 schedules for Franklin and Wood counties are also missing.

Oklahoma

Capital, Oklahoma City

"Westward" for the red man ended
with Oklahoma when it became the last
gathering place of the displaced Indian.
Here the Indian gave up the nomadic
existance of his forefathers and accepted
the white man's mode of living.

Little significance attaches to the fact
that Spanish and French explorers, in
search of the proverbial pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow, traversed
the Oklahoma section time and again
from 1590.

While the territory was still dedicated
for the use of the Indians, white set-
tlers came there in such hordes to se-
cure land that eventually they had to
be driven away by United States soldiers.
The clamor for more land became so
vociferous that the government purchas-
ed from the Indians about two million
acres in the section adjacent to Logan

and Oklahoma counties.

During the influx of new settlers, Illi-
nois, Iowa and Kansas farmers seemed
to favor the western and the north-
v/estern sections of the state, while those
from Arkansas, Missouri and Texas pre-
ferred the southern and the eastern
parts of the state.

After Oklahoma became part of the
United States with the Louisiana Pur-
chase in 1803, it was included in the In-
diana Territory. In 1812 it was com-
bined with the Missouri Territory, and
in 1819 with the Arkansas Territory.
For several years, most of Oklahoma
was included in what was called the
Indian Territory, which continued until
about 1893 when the section was divided
into the Indian Territory and the Okla-
homa Territory, the latter being thrown
open to white settlements.

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127

In 1890 the Territorial Government was
established with Guthrie as its first
Capital. 1891 saw two new counties
formed and in 1892 six more were form-
ed. The Cherokee Outlet in the north-
west section of the state, next to the
panhandle, was opened for white settlers
in 1893. A court decision and an act of
congress awarded Greer County to
Oklahoma in 1896. Prior to that time it
had been claimed by both Oklahoma and
Texas. In 1906 Congress passed the en-
abling act. Oklahoma became the forty-
sixth state to enter the Union when it
was admitted November 16, 1907. The
capital was moved from Guthrie to
Oklahoma City in 1910.

The first seven counties of the Okla-
homa Territory were designated First,
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh, thereafter, as other counties
were added they were named after the
letters of the alphabet. Later on by vote
of the people they were given their pres-
ent names. The original seven counties
took the following names when this
change was accomplished: Logan, Cleve-
land, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher,
Payne and Beaver.

Birth and death records since 1908
are obtainable at the Department of
Health, Division of Vital Statistics,
Oklahoma City, Okla.

Marriage records may be obtained

from the respective County Clerks, who
also have supervision of all court and
land records.

Johnson, Roy. M., Oklahoma South of
the Canadian. Historical and biographical.
Published by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago. 1925. Three Vols.

Oklahoma libraries — Muskogee, (Mus-
kogee) Public Library; Oklahoma,
(Oklahoma), City Public Library, NW
at Robinson; Oklahoma Historical So-
ciety Library, Historical Bldg., (histori-
cal and genealogical collections) ; State
Library, 109 State Capital, (biography,
genealogy); Tulsa, (Tulsa), Public Li-
brary, 220 South Cheyenne Ave., (Tul-
sa and Oklahoma histories).

We are indebted to Mrs. Merlyn
Houck, Rt. 2, Stillwater, Okla. for infor-
mation on the organization of the count-
ies of Oklahoma. In checking it with the
information found in the 1953 Handy
Book for Genealogists we noted con-
siderable discord. A further check was
made with other sources and these some-
times confirmed either one or the other
and in some cases gave still different
data. In the Oklahoma County Histories
which follow you will find printed in
parenthesis the data furnished by Mrs.
Houck which does not coincide with that
found in the 1953 Handy Book for Gene-
alogists. In each case the information
from Mrs. Houck is under the data in
question.

Oklahoma County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census

Reports

Available

Adair

1907

Alfalfa

1907

Atoka

1907

Beaver

1890
(1892)

Beckham

1907

Blaine

1895
(1892)

Bryan

1907

Caddo

1891
(1906)

Canadian

1890

Carter

1907

Cherokee

1907

Choctaw

1907

Cimarron

1907

Cleveland

1890

Coal

1907

Parent County County Seat

Cherokee Lands Stillwell

Woods Cherokee

Choctaw Lands Atoka

Original county Beaver

(Public Lands)

Roger Mills Sayre

(Green and Roger Mills)

Original county Watonga

( Cheyenne- Arapaho Lands)

Choctaw Lands Durant

Original Lands Anadarko

(Wichita-Caddo Lands)

Original county El Reno

Chickasaw Lands Ardmore

Cherokee Lands Tahlequah

Choctaw Lands Hugo

Beaver Boise City

Unassigned Lands Norman

Choctaw Lands Colgate

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Comanche C2 1907 55 Kiowa, Comanche,

Apache Lands Lawton

Cotton D2 1912 10 Comanche Walters

(1914)

Craig B4 1907 18 Cherokee Lands Vinita

Creek B3 1907 43 Creek Lands Sapulpa

Custer CI 1891 21 Cheyenne, Arapo Lands Arapaho

(1892)

Day 1892 (Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands) Discontinued

Delaware B4 1907 9 Cherokee Jay

Dewey Bl 1895 9 Original county Taloga

(1892) (Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands)

Ellis Bl 1907 7 Day, Woodward Arnett

Garfield B2 1895 53 Original county Enid

(1893) (Cherokee Outlet)

Garvin C2 1907 30 Chickasaw Lands Pauls Valley

Grady C2 1907 35 Caddo, Comanche Chickasha

(Chickasaw Lands)

Grant B2 1895 10 Original county Medford

(1893) (Cherokee Outlet)

Greer CI 1890 12 Org. by Texas, to Okla.

by court decision Mangum

(Organized as Greer Co., Texas in 1886. An act of Congress on May 4, 1896 de-
clared it Greer Co., Okla. A fire in 1901 destroyed the county records.)

Harmon CI 1909 8 Greer Hollis

Harper Bl 1905 6 Indian Lands Buffalo

(1907) (Woods County)

Haskell C4 1907 13 Choctaw Lands Stigler

Hughes C3 1907 21 Creek Lands Holdenville

(Creek and Choctaw Lands)

Jackson CI 1907 20 Greer Altus

Jefferson D2 1907 11 Comanche Waurika

(Chickasaw)
Johnston C3 1907 11 Chickasaw Lands Tishomingo

(Choctaw Lands)

Kay B2 1895 49 Original county Newkirk

(1893) (Cherokee Outlet)

Kingfisher B3 1890 13 Original county Kingfisher

Kiowa CI 1891 19 Original county Hobart

(1906) (Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Lands)

Latimer C4 1907 10 Choctaw Lands Wilburton

Le Flore C4 1907 35 Choctaw Lands Poteau

Lincoln C3 1891 22 Original county Chandler

(1890) (lowa-Kickapoo-Sac-Fox Lands)

Logan B2 1891 22 Original county Guthrie

(1890)

Love D2 1907 8 Chickasaw Lands Marietta

McClain C2 1907 15 Chickasaw Lands Purcell

McCurtain D4 1907 32 Choctaw Lands Idabell

Mcintosh C4 1907 18 Indian Lands Eufaula

(Creek Lands)

Major B2 1909 10 Woods Fairview

(1907)

Marshall D3 1907 8 Chickasaw Lands Madill

Mayes B4 1907 20 Indian Lands Pryor

(Cherokee Lands)

Murray D3 1907 11 Chickasaw Lands Sulpher

Muskogee C4 1907 66 Chickasaw Lands Muskogee

(Creek and Cherokee Lands)

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129

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By I

Noble

1897
(1893)

Nowata

1907

Okfuskee

1907

Oklahoma

1891
(1890)

325

Okmulgee

1907

Osage

1907
(1893)

Ottawa

1907

Parent County

Indian Lands ...
(Ponca-Otoe)
Cherokee Lands

Creek Lands

Original county

County Seat

Perry-

Pawnee B3 1897 14

(1893)

Payne B3 1890 46

Pittsburg C4 1907 41

Pontotoc C3 1907 31

Creek Lands

Osage Indian Lands

Indian Lands

(Cherokee Land)

Indian Lands

(Pawnee Lands)

Original county

Choctaw Lands

(Chickasaw Lands)

Nowata

Okemah

Oklahoma City

Okmulgee
Pawhuska

Miami
Pawnee

Stillwater
McAlester
Ada

County Map of Oklahoma

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Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop,
By M

Census

Reports

Available

Pottawatomie €3
Pushmataha D4

1893

(1891)

1907

Roger Mills CI

Rogers B4
Seminole C3

Sequoyah C4
Stephens D2

1895
(1892)
1907
1907
(1906)
1907
1907

20
41

20
34

Texas

Tillman

Tulsa

A2
Dl
B3

1907
1907
1907

252

Wagoner

1907

Washington B3
Washita CI

Woods Bl

1907

1897

(1892)

1893

Woodward

1907
(1893)

Parent County County Seat

Original county Shawnee

(Pottawatomie-Shawnee Lands)

Indian Lands Antlers

(Choctaw Lands)

Original county Cheyenne

( Cheyenne- Arapaho Lands)

Cherokee Lands Claremore

Seminole Indian Lands Wewoka

Cherokee Indian Lands Sallisaw

Comanche County Duncan

(Chickasaw Lands)

Beaver Guymon

Comanche Indian Lands Frederick

Creek Indian Lands Tulsa

(Creek and Cherokee Lands)

Creek Lands Wagoner

(Creek and Cherokee Lands)

Cherokee Lands Bartlesville

Indian Lands Cordell

(Cheyenne- Arapaho Lands)

Original county Alva

(Cherokee Outlet)

Indian Lands Woodward

(Cherokee Outlet)

Oregon

Capital, Salem

Arguments over prior right of Spain,
Russia, Great Britain, and the United
States kept things in a turmoil in the
Oregon country while the western sec-
tion of our nation was in preparation
to receive the restless, moving hordes
always headed for places where oppor-
tunity beckoned the tireless, willing
workers.

Simultaneously as the Mormon Pio-
neers were headed for the then uninvit-
ing Utah Valleys as a refuge in relig-
ious persecutions, and the gold-seekers
were rushing toward California, thous-
ands of sturdy tillers of the soil who
already had broken virgin soil in three
or four different states were trekking
toward the northwest with the same en-
thusiasm as those participating in the
other movements. A steady stream of
tliese prairie schooners headed toward
the Oregon country for several years
was attracted by a generous offer. In
1850 the Territorial Legislature of Ore-
gon guaranteed settlers ownership of
considerable tracts of land if for four
years they would live on and cultivate
those farm lands. At the time there

were in Oregon slightly more than 13,000
people. The attractiveness of the free-
land offer is evident in the four-fold
increase in population during the follow-
ing ten-year period. Not only did peo-
ple from many sections of the United
States change their residence to Ore-
gon, but people came there from all
parts of the world. Among European
countries whose people came there in
large numbers are, in order of their
numerical contributions to its citizenry,
Germany, Sweden, England, Norway,
Russia, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Ire-
land, Austria, Greece, and Czechoslo-
vakia.

Oregon became a territory in 1848,
when it also embraced all of the pre-
sent Washington and Idaho. It remain-
ed so for eleven years and then in
1859 became the thirty-third state in
the Union. At that time it had been
shrunk to its present size.

The State Registrar, State Board of
Health, 816 Oregon Blvd., Portland, Ore.,
has birth and death records since 1903
and marriage records since 1907. The
County Clerks in the respective counties

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131

have marriage records since creation of
county in some instances. The County
Clerk also has custody of the records of
wills and the administration of estates,
deeds, and matters pertaining to real
estate ownership.

Oregon Libraries — Eugene, (Lane),
Public Library, 1115 Willamette St. ; Uni-
versity of Oregon Library, (Oregoniana

and manuscripts of the Pacific North-
west); Portland, (Washington), Library
Association of Portland, 901 SW 10th
Ave.; Oregon Historical Society Li-
brary, 235 SW 6th Ave., (newspapers and
manuscripts. Pacific Northwest lore);
Salem, (Marion), The Oregon State Li-
brary, State Library Bldg., (genealogy,
Northwest history, Oregoniana).

Oregon County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census

Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Baker A2 1862 16 1870-80 Unorganized Territory Baker

Benton E2 1847 32 1850-80 Original county Corvallis

Clackamas Dl 1843 87 1850-80 Original county Oregon City

Clatsop El 1844 31 1850-80 Original county Astoria

Columbia El 1854 23 1860-80 Washington St. Helens

Coos F3 1853 42 1860-80 Umpqua, Jackson Coquille

Crook C2 1882 9 Wasco Prineville

Curry F4 1852 6 1860-80 Coos Gold Beach

Deschutes D3 22 Wasco Bend

Douglas E3 1852 55 1860-80 Umpqua Roseburg

Gilliam CI 1885 3 Wasco, Umpqua, Umatilla Condon

Grant B2 1887 8 Harney Canyon City

Harney B3 1889 6 Lake Burns

Hood River Dl 1908 13 Wasco Hood River

Jackson E4 1852 59 1860-80 Wasco Medford

Jefferson D2 1914 6 Wasco Madras

Josephine E4 1856 27 1860-80 Jackson Grants Pass

Klamath D4 1882 42 West part of Lake Co Klamath Falls

Lake C4 1874 7 1860-80 Unorganized Territory Lakeview

Lane E3 1851 126 1860-80 Linn, Benton Eugene

Lincoln E2 1893 21 Benton Toledo

Linn E2 1847 54 1850-80 Original county Albany

Malheur A3 1887 23 Baker Vale

Marion E2 1849 101 1850-80 Original county Salem

Morrow Dl 1865 5 1870-80 Umatilla Heppner

Multnomah El 1854 472 1860-80 Umpqua Portland

Polk E2 1845 26 1850-80 Original county Dallas

Sherman CI 1889 2 Wasco Moro

Tillamook El 1853 19 1860-80 Clatsop, Polk, Yamhill Tillamook

Umatilla Bl 1862 42 1870-80 Wasco Pendleton

Union Bl 1864 18 1860-80 Umatilla La Grande

Wallowa Al 1889 7 Union Enterprise

Wasco D2 1854 16 1860-80 Original conty The Dalles

Originally embraced entire Eastern Oregon

Washington El 1843 61 1850-80 Original county Hillsboro

Wheeler C2 1899 3 Crook, Guillam, Grant Fossil

Yamhill E2 1843 33 1850-80 Original county McMinnville

U. S. Census Reports available from following discontinued counties: Clark,

1850; Lewis, 1850; Umpqua, 1860.

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Pennsylvania

Capital, Harrisburg

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to

breathe free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming

shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost

to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Long before the Statue of Liberty had
been contemplated or Emma Lazarus
had written these immortal lines for
its pedestal, William Penn extended an
invitation to Europe's religiously perse-
cuted and exiled to come to Pennsyl-
vania where he had established a haven
of religious freedom and liberty.

Responding to the earnest solicitation
the Society of Friends, or Quakers, came
from England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales; the severely persecuted Palatines
came from the Rhine section; the Ana-
baptists, or Mennonites, arrived from
Germany and Switzerland; the Church
of the Brethren, or Dunkards, so called
from their belief in triple baptism, came
from Germany in 1721; the Roman
Catholics from England came there in
1732; the Moravians, or Czech followers
of John Huss, came from Moravia and
Bohemia to Pennsylvania via Georgia
in 1740 and the so-called Dutch, who
were Germans, not Hollanders.

With the rapidly advancing mineral
and business developments in the early
1800s tens of thousands of workers came
from Europe in the following numerical
strength, according to Bureau of Census
figures: Italians, Poles, Russians, Aus-
trians, Germans, Czechs, English, Irish,
Hungarians, Swedes, Greeks, French,
Norwegians, Danes, and Finns.

Scotch-Irish immigrants made their
homes in Adams, Allegheny, Bedford,
Bucks, Centre, Cumberland, Dauphin,
Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Mifflin,
Northampton, Northumberland, Perry,
Schuylkill, Somerset, and Westmoreland
counties.

Germans came into Allegheny, Bed-
ford, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Centre,
Clearfield, Dauphin, Franklin, Jefferson,
Lancaster, Lucerne, Potter. Schuylkill,
Snyder, Union, and Westmoreland coun-
ties.

English families settled in Bucks,

Clearfield, Delaware, Fayette, Lancaster,
Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, North-
umberland, Perry, Philadelphia, and
Westmoreland counties.

Welsh people felt at home in Cam-
bria, Delaware, Montgomery, and
Schuylkill counties.

French immigrants settled in Clear-
field County.

Swedes came to Delaware County.

Connecticut settlers were transplant-
ed into Erie, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Mc-
Kean, Susquehanna, Tioga, Venango,
Warren, Wayne, and Wyoming counties.

New York residents moved into Erie,
McKean, Susquehanna, Tioga, Venango,
and Warren counties.

Dutch families established themselves
in Monroe County.

Quakers made their homes in Phila-
delphia.

Mixed groups coming mainly from the
New England states, New York and
eastern Pennsylvania settled in Butler,
Chester, Washington, and York coun-
ties.

For quite a complete list of Pennsyl-
vania sources see page 34 of "Ways and
Means of Identifying Ancestors," by
Evan L. Reed.

The 1950 Census gave Pennsylvania a
population of 10,498,012, the third largest
in the nation.

Philadelphia has a population of more
than two million; Pittsburgh, of more
than half a million; Erie, Scanton, Read-
ing, and Allentown, of more than 100,000.

Of untold value to genealogical re-
search was the law passed by the Penn-
sylvania Assembly of 1684 which requir-
ed inhabitants then in the province and
all who should thereafter arrive to reg-
ister in their respective counties.

Marriage licenses were first issued in
Pennsylvania about 1883. Birth and
death records have been kept since
1892. Until 1906 these records were kept
ill their respective counties, since then
they have been under the direction of the
Bureau of Vital Statistics at Harris-
burg, Pa. The marriage licenses are
kept at the office of the clerks of the
respective counties. From 1852 to 1856
birth and death records were also re-
corded in the counties. The birth records

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give the names of other children in the
family.

Pennsylvania libraries — Harrisburg,
(Dauphin), State Library (genealogical
department); Lancaster, (Lancaster),
Franklin and Marshall College, Facken-
thal Library, (state history and biogra-
phy); Phildelphia (Philadelphia), Amer-
ican Swedish Historical Foundation Li-
brary, 19th St. and Pattison Ave., (bio-
graphies of Swedish-Americans) ; The
Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan
Square, (Western manuscripts) ; The
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1300
Locust St., (biographies and genealogies) ;

Pittsburgh, (Allegheny), Carnegie Free
Public Library of Allegheny, Federal &
Ohio Sts., (histories of Pittsburgh and
Pennsylvania); Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes St., (histories
and biographies, Pittsburgh newspapers
from 1768); Reading, (Berks), Public Li-
brary, Fifth and Franklin Sts., (ma-
terial on Pennsylvania Dutch) ; State
College, (Centre), The Pennsylvania
State Library, (histories and genealo-
gies); Wilkes-Barre, (Luzerne), Oster-
hout Free Public Library, 71 S. Frank-
lin St., (local history); York, (York)
Martin Memorial Public & York County
Library, 159 E. Market St.

Pennsylvania County Histories

(Population

figures to

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Adams

1800

1800-80

Allegheny

1788

155

1790-80

Armstrong

1800

1800-80

Beaver

1800

175

1800-80

Bedford

1771

1790-80

Berks

1752

256

1800-80

Blair

1846

140

1850-80

Bradford

1810

1820-80

Bucks

1682

145

1790-80

Butler

1800

1800-80

Cambria

1804

210

1820-80

Cameron

1860

1870-80

Carbon

1843

1850-80

Centre

1800

1800-80

Chester

1682

159

1790-80

Clarion

1839

1850-80

Clearfield

1804

1810-80

Clinton

1839

1840-80

Columbia

1813

1820-80

Crawford

1800

1800-80

Cumberland C3

1750

1790-80

Dauphin

1785

198

1790-80

Delaware

1789

414

1790-80

Elk

1843

1850-80

Erie

1800

219

1800-80

Fayette

1783

190

1790-80

Forest

1848

1860-80

Franklin

1784

1790-80

Fulton

1850

1850-80

Greene

1796

1800-80

Huntington

1787

1790-80

Indiana

1803

1810-80

Jefferson

1804

1810-80

Juniata

1831

1840-80

Lackawana

1878

257

1880

Lancaster

1729

235

1790-80

Lawrence

1849

105

1850-80

Lebanon

1813

1820-80

nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Parent County County Seat

York Gettysburg

Westmorland, Washington Pittsburg

Allegheny, Lycoming,

Westmoreland Kittanning

Allegheny, Washington Beaver

Cumberland Bedford

Bucks, Lancaster, Philadelphia .... Reading

Huntingdon, Bedford Hollidaysburg

Luzerne, Lycoming. Originally

Ontario, changed 1812 Towanda

Original county Doylestown

Allegheny Butler

Somerset, Bedford, Huntingdon Edensburg
Clinton, Elk, McKean, Potter .... Emporium

Northampton, Monroe Mauch Chunk

Lycoming, Mifflin, Northcumberland,

Huntingdon Bellefont

Original county W. Chester

Venago ,Armstrong Clarion

Northumberland, Lycoming .... Clearfield

Lycoming, Centre Lock Haven

Northumberland Bloomsburg

Allegheny Meadville

Lancaster Carlisle

Lancaster Harrisburg

Chester Media

Jefferson, McKean, Clearfield ..- Ridgeway

Allegheny Erie

Westmoreland Uniontown

Jefferson, Venango Tionesta

Cumberland Chambersburg

Bedford McConnellsburg

Washington Waynesburg

Bedford Huntingdon

Westmoreland, Lycoming Indiana

Lycoming Brookville

Mifflin Mifflintown

Luzerne Scranton

Chester Lancaster

Beaver, Mercer New Castle

Dauphin, Lancaster Lebanon

PENNSYLVANIA

135

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Lehigh

1812

198

1820-80

Luzerne

1786

392

1790-80

Lycoming

1795

106

1790-80

McKean

1804

1810-80

Mercer

1800

112

1790-80

Mifflin

1789

1790-80

Monroe

1836

1840-80

Montgomery C4

1784

353

1790-80

Montour

1850

1850-80

Northampton B4

1752

185

1790-80

Northumber-

land

1772

117

1790-80

Perry

1820

1820-80

Philadelphia C4

1682

2072

1790-80

Pike

1814

1820-80

Potter

1804

1810-80

Schuylkill

1811

201

1820-80

Snyder

1855

1860-80

Somerset

1795

1800-80

Sullivan

1847

1850-80

Susquehana

1810

1820-80

Tioga

1804

1810-80

Union

1813

1820-80

Venango

1800

1800-80

Warren

1800

1800-80

Washington

1781

210

1790-80

Wayne

1798

1800-80

Westmoreland CI

1773

313

1790-80

Wyoming

1842

1850-80

York

1749

203

1790-80

U. S.

Census Notes— Centre 1800

census, part missing.

Parent County County Seat

Northampton Allentown

Northumberland Wilkes-Barre

Northumberland Williamsport

Lycoming Smethport

Allegheny Mercer

Cumberland, Northumberland .... Lewiston

Pike, Northampton Stroudsburg

Philadelphia Norristown

Columbia Danville

Bucks Easton

Lancaster, Bedford, Berks,

Northampton Sunbury

Cumberland New Bloomfield

Original county Philadelphia

Wayne Milford

Lycoming Coudersport

Berks, Northampton Pottsville

Union Middleburg

Bedford Somerset

Lycoming Laporte

Luzerne Montrose

Lycoming Wellsboro

Northumberland Lewisburg

Allegheny, Lycoming Franklin

Allegheny, Lycoming Warren

Westmoreland Washington

Northampton Honesdale

Bedford Greensburg

Luzerne Tunkhannock

Lancaster York

see Mifflin County; Westmoreland 1800

County Map of Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Capital, Providence

Giovanni de Verazzano, a 44-year-old
Florentine navigator, in 1524 visited
Block Island and the site of the pre-
sent Newport on Aquidneck Island, both
part of today's Rhode Island. He was
then a privateer in the French service.

In 1636 Roger Williams, a 30-year-old
Welshman, and some of his followers
established the first Rhode Island settle-
ment at Providence. His religious pro-
nouncements, too advanced for the

clergy to accept, led to his banishment
from Massachusetts. An uncompromis-
ing advocate of freedom, he held that
difference of opinion is not a bar to
friendship. All land he settled or tilled
was purchased from the Indians.

The banishment of Williams from
Massachusetts was soon followed by
others, including Anne Marbury Hutch-
inson, John Clarke, and William Cod-
dington. They established a colony at

County Map ol Rhode Island

MASS A CMUSCTTS

13()

RHODE ISLAND

137

Portsmouth in 1638. Later Clarke and
Coddington settled Newport, after their
attempt to establish a government bas-
ed on the Jewish nation had failed. A
fourth colony was established at War-
wick in 1642.

Many Quakers found a haven in
Rhode Island in the early days. The
large majority of the people who came
into Rhode Island were former residents
of Massachusetts.

New England researchers have an
abundance of material at their com-
mand. Both the state and the cities
have large genealogical libraries or gen-
ealogical sections in their public librar-
ies. The Rhode Island Historical Society
has a wonderful assortment of books at
52 Power Street, Providence 6, R. I.
The Society has one of the largest gen-
ealogical collection in New England,
probably the third largest. Many people
from various sections, searching for the
progenitors among Rhode Island families
have attained splendid results in the li-
brary of the Rhode Island Historical
Society.

Rhode Island became a state in 1790,
the thirteenth to join the Union. In
1950 it had a population of 791,896,
which represented a 60,000 growth in
the previous ten year period. Only 15.7
per cent of the population live in farm
sections.

Among its large numbers of industri-
al workers are members of almost every
nationality. Those with the largest num-

bers are the Italians, English, Irish, Pol-
ish, Russians, Swedes, Germans and Aus-
trians.

All vital statistics are in the custody
of the town or city clerks. Birth and
death records since 1853 are in the office
of the Registrar of Vital Statistics,
Providence, R. I.

, Rhode Island libraries — Newport, (New-
port), The Peoples Public Library; Provi-
dence, (Providence), Brown University
Library, (R. L. history); Providence
Public Library, 229 Washington St. Zone
3; Rhode Island Historical Society Li-
brary, 52 Power St.; Rhode Island State
Library, State House, (historical, Rev.
War records).

Rhode Island Towns
Organized Before 1800

BRISTOL COUNTY— Barrington, 1717;
Bristol, 1681; Warren, 1746-7.

KENT COUNTY — Coventry, 1741;
East Greenwich, 1677; Warwick, 1642-3;
West Greenwich, 1741.

NEWPORT COUNTY — Jamestown
1678; Little Compton, 1746-7; Middleton,
1743; Newport, 1639; New Shoreman,
1672; Portsmouth, 1638; Tiverton, 1746-7.

PROVIDENCE COUNTY — - Cranston,
1754; Cumberland, 1746-7; Foster ,1781;
Glocester, 1730-1; Johnston, 1759; North
Providence, Providence, 1636; Scituate,
1730-1; Smithfield, 1730-1.

WASHINGTON COUNTY — Charles-
town, 1738; Exeter, 1742-3; Hopkinton,
1757; North Kingston, 1641; Richmond,
1747; South Kingston, 1657-8; Westerly,
1669.

Rhode Island County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census

Reports

Available

Bristol

1747

1790-80

Kent

1750

1790-80

Newport

1703

1790-80

Providence

1793

575

1790-80

Washington

I B4

1729

1790-80

Parent County County Seat

Newport Bristol

Providence, Newport E. Greenwich

Original county Newport

Original county Providence

For. Naragannset W. Kingston

South Carolina

Capital, Columbia

Several attempts by the Spaniards and part of the state in 1671. The settlers

the French to establish settlements in were a group of English people direct

what is now South Carolina between from the Old World, and another group,

1526 and 1664 failed. the members of which had been living

The first colony was established on on the Barbados Island, the south-east-

the Ashley River in the southeastern ernmost island in the West Indies group.

138 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

They called their settlement Charles and property records were recorded at
Town. A few months later some Dutch Charleston where they are still avail-
families, who had left New York after able at the office of the Judge of Pro-
the English had taken over there, estab- bate. Since the Episcopal Church held
lished themselves along the Ashley Riv- full sway in the early days of the col-
er. They were later joined by many ony, in 1706 an act was passed making
families direct from Holland. the parishes its legislative units. Re-

in 1675 a group of Quakers came into gardless of church affiliations, all per-
the Territory. In 1680 about 45 families sons were required to register their
of Huguenots also established homes vital statistics with the church officers,
there. Quite a colony of dissenters from In 1783 offices of Register of Mesne
the Episcopal Church came in 1683 (legal) Conveyance were authorized in
from Somersetshire to the present site all counties.

of Charleston. In that year came also an Archibald F. Bennett, secretary of the
Irish colony and settled along the Ash- Genealogical Society of Utah, who some
ley River, In 1684 ten families of Scotch years ago made a personal inspection
Presbyterians established fhemselves at of all record deposits in South Carolina,
Port Royal. says that the Judge of Probates office

Immigrants continued to come in large in Charleston has records of wills and
streams until by 1730 there were gather- estates back to 1692. They are recorded
ed "on the banks of the Santee, the in chronological volumes, with indexes.
Edisto, and the Combahee some of the Records of deeds and other estate
best elements of the European nations, matters are available from 1719 in
The Huguenot, the Scotch Presbyterian, Charleston. Those prior to 1719 are in
the English Dissenter, the loyalist and the office of the Historical Commis-
High Churchman, the Irish adventurer, sion of South Carolina in Columbia,
and the Dutch mechanic composed the What few marriage bonds are avail-
powerful material out of which soon able from those early days have been
grew the beauty and renown of the printed in the 'South Carolina Histor-
Palmetto State." (Ridpath's History of ical and Genealogical Magazine." Be-
the United States.) tween 1778 and 1911 no marriage bonds

From 1732 until 1736 quite a number or licenses were required in South Caro-
of families from England, Scotland, Ire- lina, and only for brief intervals were
land, Wales, Switzerland, and Germany such records kept.

came into the central section of South "Records of land grants earlier than
Carolina. Some of the first settlements 1695 are in the office of the Historical
in the so-called *Up Country", the west- Commission of South Carolina in Col-
ern half of the state, were created umbia," says Mr. Bennett. 'The Secre-
from 1745 to 1760 by immigrants from tary of State in Columbia has records
the Rhine section of Germany, the of land grants from 1695 to the pre-
northern American colonies, and the sent time, and a plat to land grants
Ulster section of Ireland. After the In- from 1688, warrants for entry and sur-
dian Wars, Scotch-Irish immigrants came veys made and certified before the corre-
about 1761. spending final grants or patents were

In 1790 the capital of the state, was issued. The plat records and grant rec-
moved from Charleston to Columbia. ords in the Secretary of State's office are
From 1845 to 1850 many Irish settled in separate books. There are sets of in-
in the state because of the potato famine dex books for plats and index books for
in their own country. The political grants.

struggle in Germany in 1848 brought 'In our Genealogical Library in Salt
thousands of the expatriates to the Unit- Lake City, Utah, we have a series of
ed States, many of them coming to seven printed volumes containing copies
South Carolina. of the Stub Entries to Indents for Revo-

South Carolina was the eighth state lutionary Claims. These contain valuable
to enter the Union, 1788. More than a items for information on the service of
hundred years before, 1683, the first soldiers who were paid or received boun-
three counties, Berkley, Tolleton, and ty for service."

Craven, were established. Only the Birth and death records from 1915 to

first one exists now. the present are in the office of the

From the settlement of South Caro- State Health Department, Columbia, S. C.

lina in 1671 until 1783 all vital statistics Marriage records from July 1, 1950 to

SOUTH CAROLINA

139

the present are also at that office. Mar-
riages from July 1, 1911 to the present
are at the office of the Probate Judge,
County Court House, in respective coun-
ty seats.

Birth records kept at the city of
Charleston are available since 1877 at
the City Health Department, where also
are available deaths from 1821 to the
present.

The Clerk of the Court in the var-
ious counties has charge of wills, deeds,
and land grants. Dates will vary with
the different counties.

War service records are in the cus-
tody of Adjutant General in Columbia,
S. C.

Available census records are listed in
the 'South Carolina County Histories"
herewith.

The South Carolina Historical and
Genealogical Magazine, a quarterly, has
been published regularly since 1900. It
contains much valuable information.
Many libraries have bound volumes of
this magazine.

All schedules of the U. S. Census
for 1790 of South Dakota are avail-
able, but are not necessarily listed in
the names of the present counties,
since most of them, with the probably
exception of three, have all been formed
after the 1790 census.

South Carolina districts were formed
as follows. Abbeville, 1798; Anderson,
1826; Barnwell, 1798; Beaufort, 1768;
Berkeley, 1683; Camden, 1768; Cartar-
et, 1683; Charleston, 1798; Cheraws,
1768; Chester, 1798; Chesterfield, 1798;

Clarendon, 1798; Colleton, 1798; Dar-
lington, 1798; Dorchester, 1785; Edge-
field, 1798; Fairfield, 1798; Georgetown,
1768; Granville, 1700; Greenville, 1798;
Horry, 1801; Kershaw, 1798; Lancaster,
1798; Laurens, 1798; Lexington, 1804;
Marion, 1798; Marlboro, 1798; Newberry,
1798; Orangeburg, 1798; Pickens, 1826;
Richland, 1799; Spartanburg, 1798; Sum-
ter, 1798; Williamsburg, 1804, and York,
1798.

South Carolina libraries — Charleston,
(Charleston), Charleston Free Library,
94 Rutledge Ave.; Columbia, (Richland),
Richland County Public Library, 1400
Sumter St. (South Carolina); South
Carolina State Library; Spartanburg,
(Spartanburg). Spartanburg Public Li-
brary, 224 Magnolia Street.

South Carolina books:

Ervin, Sara Sullivan, South Carolinians
in the Revolution, 186 pp. (Index seperate)
Pub. 1949, DAR.

Heads o[ Families at the First Census
o[ the U.S. 1790, South Carolina, Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1908.

Revill, Janie. Copy o[ the Original In-
dex Book Showing the Revolutionary Claims
Filed in South Carolina between August
20. 1783 and August 31, 1786. Kept by James
McCall, Auditor General.

Sally. A. S. Jr., Warrants for Lands in
South Carolina 1672-1679. Published by the
Historical Commission of South Carolina,
1910.

South Carolina Historical & Genealogical
Magazine. Published since 1900 ^ 57 Vol.

Young, Miss Pauline, A Collection of
South Carolina Wills and Records. 2
Vols. (Vol. 1 printed, vol. 2 mimeographed)

Name

South Carolina County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

1800-80 District 96 Abbeville

1880 Edgefield Aiken

Barnwell, Hampton Allendale

1830-80 Abbeville Anderson

Barnwell Bamberg

1880 Barnwell

1790-80 Original county Beaufort

Original county Moncks Corner

Lexington, Orangeburg St. Mathews

1800-80 Charleston District Charleston

Union, York Gaffney

1800-80 Camden District Chester

1800-80 Cheraws District Chesterfield

11800-80 Camden District Manning

1800-80 Charleston District Walterboro

Abbeville

1868

Aiken

1871

Allendale

1918

Anderson

1868

Bamberg

1897

Barnwell

1868

Beufort

1868

Berkeley

1882

Calhoun

1908

Charleston

1868

165

Cherokee

1897

Chester

1868

Chesterfield

1868

Clarendon

1868

Colleton

1868

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Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Darlington

1868

1800-80

Dillon

1910

Dorchester

1868

1880

Edgefield

1868

1800-80

Fairfield

1868

1800-80

Florence

1888

Georgetown

1868

1790-80

Greenville

1868

168

1800-80

Greenwood

1897

Hampton

1878

1880

Horry

1861

1810-80

Jasper

1912

Kershaw

1868

1800-80

Lancaster

1868

1800-80

Laurens

1868

1800-80

Lee

1902

Lexington

1868

1800-80

McCormick

1914

Marion

1868

1800-80

Marlboro

1868

1800-80

Newberry-

1868

1800-80

Oconee

1865

1870-80

Orangeburg

1868

1800-80

Pickens

1868

1830-80

Parent County County Seat

Cherwas District Darlington

Marion Dillon

Berkeley County St. George

District 96 Edgefield

Craven Winnsboro

Marion, Darlington Florence

Craven County Georgetown

District 96 Greenville

Abbeville, Edgefield Greenwood

Beaufort Hampton

Kingston Conway

Beaufort, Hampton Ridgeland

Fairfield Camden

Camden District Lancaster

District 96 Laurens

Darlington, Sumter, Kershaw .. Bishopville

Orangeburg Lexington

Edgefield, Abbeville McCormick

Liberty Marion

Cheraws District Bennettsville

District 96 Newberry

Pickens Wahalla

Original district Orangeburg

Pendleton Pickens

County Map of South Carolina

SOUTH CAROLINA

141

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Richland B3 1868 143 2I8IO-8O Old District Columbia

Saluda B2 1895 16 Edgefield Saluda

Spartanburg A2 1868 150 1800-80 District 96 Spartanburg

Sumter B3 1868 58 1800-80 District 96 Sumter

Union A2 1873 31 1880 York Union

Williamsburg B4 1868 44 1800-80 Georgetown Kingstree

York A2 1868 72 1800-80 Camden District York

1. Clarendon census schedules missing for 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850.

2. Richland census schedules missing for 1800.

Census schedules for the following discontinued counties are available: Clare-
mont, 1790, 1810, (combined with Clarendon in 1798); Kingston, 1800; Liberty, ISOO;
Pendleton, 1800, 1810, 1820; Salem, 1800, 1810; Winyaw 1800.

South Dakota

Capital, Pierre

Part of the Louisiana Purchase in
1803, the Dakotas were wedded to num-
erous Territorities before finally becom-
ing states. Until 1820 they were part of
the Missouri Territory. At intervals, the
eastern half was tied to the Terri-
tories of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and
Michigan. During those periods, the
western parts of the Dakotas belonged
to the Nebraska Territory. The Dakotas
were formed into a Territory by itself
in 1861. In 1887 it was divided into two
Territories, North and South Dakota.

Attracted by the rich soil between the
Big Sioux and the Missouri Rivers, farm
families from adjoining states establish-
ed homes there as early as 1857. Sev-
eral communities were established, most
of them along the Missouri, but two or
three along the Big Sioux. The real
influx of settlers came about 1863, after
the passing of the first Homestead Act
in the United States.

South Dakota became the fortieth
state to enter the Union. This was in
1889. All of her 68 counties, with the
exception of three, were already organ-
ized at that time.

The predominating nationality in
South Dakota is the Norwegian. Other
nationalities represented among its cit-
izenry, in the order of their predomi-
nance, are the German, Russian, Swedish,
Danish, Czechoslovakian, English, Aus-
trian, Irish, Finish, Polish, Greek and

Italian.

Records of births, marriages, divorces
and deaths from 1905 to the present
are on file at the office of the State
Public Health Department, Pierre, S. D.

Wills and probate matters are in the
offices of the Clerk of the Court in
each county who also have a record
of marriages since 1905.

All land records are at the office
of the Register of Deeds in the county
of filing. Land grants are at the office
of the Commissioner of School and pub-
lic Lands, Pierre, S. D.

The state census records from 1890
to the present are in charge of the Will
Robinson Division, Department of His-
tory, Pierre, S. D.

Taxpayers lists are at the offices of
the County Treasurer of each coimty.

The war service records are under
the direction of the Register of Deeds
of each county. The Sexton of each ceme-
trey is supervising the records of the
respective cemeteries.

Kingsbury, Geo. W., History of Dakota
Territory. Its History and Its People. Vols,
four and five, biographical. S. J. Clarke Pub-
lishing Co., Chicago, 1915.

Libraries: Aberdeen, (Brown), Alex-
ander Mitchell Public Library, 21 6th
Ave., SE; Pierre, (Hughs), South Da-
ota Free Public Library Commission;
Sioux Falls, (Minnehaha), Carnegie Free
Public Library, Tenth & Dakota Sts.

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South Dakota County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Armstrong

1883

.05

Aurora

1879

1880

Beadle

1873

1880

Bennett

1909

BonHomme

Brookings

1868

1880

Brown

1879

1880

Brule

1879

1880

Buffalo

1872

1880

Butte

1883

Campbell

1873

1880

Charles Mix B3

1865

1880

Clark

1873

1880

Clay

1862

Codington

1878

1880

Corson

1909

Custer

1877

1880

Davison

1875

1880

Day

1879

1880

Deuel

1878

1880

Dewey

1910

Douglas

1873

1880

Edmunds

1873

1880

Fall River

1883

Faulk

Grant

1891

Gregory

1889

Haakon

1873

1880

Hamlin

1878

1880

Hand

1873

1880

Hanson

1872

1880

Harding

1881

Hughes

1874

1880

Hutchinson

1871

1880

Hyde

1873

1880

Jackson

1915

Jerauld

1883

Jones

1917

Kingsbury

1879

1880

Lake

1873

1880

Lawrence

1877

1880

Lincoln

1871

1880

Lyman

1873

1880

McCook

1873

1880

McPherson

1873

1880

Marshall

1885

Meade

1889

Mellette

1909

Miner

1873

Minnehaha

1865

1880

Moody

1873

1880

Pennington

1877

1880

Perkins

1909

Potter

1875

1880

Roberts

1883

Sanborn

1883

Parent County County Seat

Unorganized Territory

Brule Plankinton

Spink, Clark Huron

Indian Lands Martin

Charles Mix Tyndall

Unorganized Territory Brookings

Beadle Aberdeen

Old Buffalo (disc.) Chamberlain

Territorial County Gannvalley

Harding Belle Fourche

Buffalo Mound City

Original District Lake Andes

Hanson Clark

Vermillion

Indian Lands Watertown

Boreman, Dewey Mcintosh

Indian Lands Custer

Hanson Mitchell

Clark Webster

Brookings Clear Lake

Indian Reservation Timber Lake

Charles Mix Armour

Buffalo Ipswich

Custer Hot Springs

Faulkton

Codington, Deuel Milbank

Burke

Changed from Schasse Phillip

Deuel Hayti

Buffalo Miller

Buffalo, Deuel Alexandria

Unorganized Territory Buffalo

Buffalo Pierre

Unorganized Territory Olivet

Buffalo Highmore

Stanley Kadoka

Aurora Wessington Springs

Lyman Murdo

Hanson De Smet

Brookings, Hanson Madison

Unorganized Territory Deadwood

Minnehaha Canton

Unorganized Territory Kennebec

Hanson Salem

Buffalo Leola

Day Britton

Lawrence Sturgis

Tripp White River

Hanson Howard

Territorial County Sioux Falls

Brookings, Minnehaha Flandreau

Unorganized Territory Rapid City

Harding, Butte Bison

Buffalo Gettysburg

Grant Sisseton

Miner Woonsocket

SOUTH DAKOTA

143

Name

Shannon

Spink

Stanley

Sully

Map
Index

B2
C2
C2

Date Pop.
Formed By M

E3 1875

1879
1873
1890

12
2
3

Census

Reports

Available

1880

1880
1880

Parent County County Seat

Territorial County

Attached to Fall Fiver County

Hanson, Walworth Redfield

Unorganized Territory Ft. Pierre

Potter Onida

County Map of South Dakota

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Todd C3 1871 5 1880 Indian Lands

Attached to Tripp

Tripp C3 1873 9 1880 Unorganized Territory Winner

Turner A3 1871 12 1880 Lincoln Parker

Union A3 1864 11 1880 Unorganized Territory Elk Point

Walworth CI 1868 8 1880 Territorial County Selby

Washabaugh D3 1883 2 Indian Lands

Attached to Jackson

Yankton A3 1884 17 Unorganized Territory Yankton

Ziebach D2 1869 3 1880 Pennington Dupree

Discontinued counties: Old Buffalo, Boreman, Granter (changed to Grant),
Schasse (changed to Haakon), Wallette, Washington.

Tennessee

Capital, Nashville

Four or five hostile Indian tribes in-
habited Tennessee up to as late as 1800.
Explorers, representing Spain, France,
and England, visited the territory inter-
mittently from about 1540 until the early
part of the seventeen hundreds.

White settlers moved into what later
became Sullivan and Hawkins counties
in the northeast corner of the state and
established settlements as early as 1772.

The Blue Ridge Mountains, which form
the boundary between North Carolina
and Tennessee, are barriers to travel.
They were so more in the early days
than now. For that reason it was easier
to come into Tennessee from the north
than from the east. Many of the settlers
therefore came into Tennessee from Vir-
ginia. It was in fact thought by some
that it was part of that state.

In those early days came several fam-
ilies into the northeast corner of Ten-
nessee from the Uplands of North Caro-
lina. They banded together as the Wat-
auga Association and spread over the
eastern part of the section. North Car-
olina shortly accepted the district as
Washington County which eventually
embraced all of the present Tennessee.
To secure federal protection for that
territory, North Carolina handed it to
the national government as a present.
But apparently no one in Washington
became enthusiastic about the gift, re-
fusing even to acknowledge it. After it
had been ignored for four or five years

some of the settlers retaliated by organ-
izing the territory into a new state,
Franklin. But even that action received
cold treatment from Washington, and
eventually vanished into the air.

Most of the early settlers in Tennessee
came from North Carolina. Almost equal
numbers came from South Carolina and
Virginia. Many of the Tennessee coun-
ties were settled by Scotch-Irish immi-
grants coming into the state via the
Shenandoah Valley. Many German fam-
ilies settled in several of the counties
west of Chattanooga where still live
many of their descendants.

Many Tennessee counties were settled
years before they were formed into
counties. Some of those counties and the
dates of their earliest settlement are
as follows: Johnson, 1770; Washington,
1772; Robertson, 1776; Greene, 1778;
Sumner, 1779; Hawkins, Hamilton, Dav-
idson, Montgomery, 1780; Hamblen, Jef-
ferson, Cooke, Jackson, 1783; Grainger,
Williamson, 1784; Blount, 1786; Smith,
1787; Cheatham, 1790; Dickson, Stewart,
1793; Claiborne, 1794; Hancock, 1795;
Campbell, 1796; De Kalb, Wilson, 1797;
Houston, Trousdale, 1798; Anderson,
Franklin, Humphreys, Moore, Van Bur-
en, 1800; Lincoln, 1806; Morgan, Lewis,
Marshall, Maury, 1807; Lawrence, Hen-
derson, 1815; Marion, Meiga, Benton,
1817; McMinn, Gibson, Hardeman, Hard-
in, Henry, Madison, McNairy, Obion,
Shelby, Weakley, 1819; Carroll, Decatur,

TENNESSEE 145

Lauderdale, 1820; Haywood, 1821; Fay- service records in the state is held by

ette, 1822; Crockett, 1823; Lake, 1825; the office of the Adjutant General, Em-

T> iL- iR^fi ployment Security Bldg., Nashville,

Polk, 183b. Tenn. There may not be many records

It should be noted that the counties ^f ^^e early wars. There are records

to be settled first were in the East of Tennesseans who served in the Union

and the Middle Tennessee districts, the Forces during the Civil War but not

East district rather leading the Middle, those serving in the Confederate Army.

The West Tennessee district was the Available are also records of the Na-

last to be settled. tional Guard, Tennesseans who served in

Tennessee was the sixteenth state to the Spanish-American War and World
become a part of the Union, 1796. It War I. The State Library has a con-
is also the sixteenth state in population siderable card index of Tennesseans who
order, the 1950 census standing at served in the earlier wars and in the
3,291,718. Confederate Army, but they are not

"The Colonial and State Records of complete and not official. They merely

North Carolina," found in many gen- indicate the sources from which the in-

ealogical libraries, contains many re- formation may be obtained,

cords with much history of the early A letter from the Tennessee State

counties of Tennessee prior to 1790. The Librarian and Archivist, Mr. Dan M.

State Library at Nashville has one of Robinson, in 1942 says, "It is my under-

the largest genealogical sections in the standing that all the Tennessee records

South. we have and many we do not have were

Official registration of births and microfilmed back in the 1930's by the

deaths began in Tennessee in 1914. Of- Genealogical Society of Utah, the Joseph

ficial registration of marriages and di- F. Smith Memorial Building, 80 North

vcrces began in 1945. These records may Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. You

be had from the Division of Vital Sta- will probably find there the most com-

tistics, State Dept. of Public Health, plete Tennessee records available in any

Nashville 3. Tenn. In the larger cities one place."

of Tennessee birth and death records Four books which may help you in

are available for many years back, your Tennessee research are:

Check with the office of the City Health Aklen, Jeannette Tillotson and As-

Department in the particular city in sitants, Tennessee Bible Records and Mar-

which your ancestors lived as you are riage Bonds. Published by Cullom and Ghert-

ready to conduct your search. ner, Nashville, 1933. 2 Vols.

The counties maintain marriage li- Ray, Worth S., Tennessee Cousins, A

cense records and records of wills, deeds, history of Tennessee people. Published by

taxpayers lists, guardianship and other the author, Austin, Texas, 1950.

court proceedings in the respective coun- Temple, O. P., Notable Men o{ Tennes-

ty court houses. Some of these records see, 1833-1875, published 1912

have been transcribed and are in che WPA. Bibliography of Research Projects

State Library. Reports. Check list of Historical Records

The early land grants are recorded in Survey Publication, published 1940.
the Land Grant Office of the State Di- Libraries: Chattanooga, (Hamilton),
vision of Archives, although these re- Chattanooga Public Library, McCallis
cords are far from complete. Although Ave.; Knoxville, (Knox), Lawson Mc-
limited in number, there are in the Ghee Public Library, 217 Market St.
State Library some Church or Parish (Tennessee History and Genealogy);
records, as well as cemetery records. Memphis, (Shelby), Cossitt Public Li-
There is no full collection of such re- brary. Front & Monroe Sts.; Nashville,
cords in the state. (Davidson), Nashville Public Library,

The most complete collection of war 222 8th Ave.

Tennessee County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Anderson A2 1801 59 1830-80 Knox Clinton

Bedford D4 1807-8 24 1820-80 Rutherford Shelbyville

Benton C2 1835 11 1840-80 Henry, Humphreys Camden

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Bledsoe

1807

1830-80

Blount

1795

1830-80

Bradley

1835

1840-80

Campbell

1806

1830-80

Cannon

1836

1840-80

Carroll

1821

1830-80

Carter

1796

1830-80

Cheatham

1856

1860-80

Chester

1875

1880

Claiborne

1801

1830-80

Clay

1870

1880

Cocke

1797

1830-80

Coffee

1836

1840-80

Crockett

1845

Cumberland A2

1856

1860-80

Davidson

1783

322

1820-80

Decatur

1845

1850-80

DeKalb

1837-8 12

1840-80

Dickson

1803

1820-80

Dyer

1823

1830-80

Fayette

1824

1830-80

Fentress

1823

1830-80

Franklin

1807

1820-80

Gibson

1823

1830-80

Giles

1809

1820-80

Grainger

1796

1830-80

Greene

1783

1830-80

Grundy

1844

1850-80

Hamblen

1870

1880

Hamilton

1819

208

1830-80

Hancock

1844

1850-80

Hardeman

1823

1830-80

Hardin

1819

1820-80

Hawkins

1786

1830-80

Haywood

1823

1830-80

Henderson

1821

1830-80

Henry

1821

1830-80

Hickman

1807

1820-80

Houston

1871

1880

Humphreys

1809

1820-80

Jackson

1801

1820-80

Jefferson

1792

1830-80

Johnson

1836

1840-80

Knox

1792

223

1830-80

Lake

1870

1870-80

Lauderdale

1835

1840-80

Lawrence

1817

1820-80

Lewis

1843

1850-80

Lincoln

1809

1820-80

Loudon

1871

1880

McMinn

1819

1830-80

McNairy

1823

1830-80

Macon

1842

1850-80

Madison

1821

1830-80

Marion

1817

1830-80

Marshall

1836

1840-80

Parent County County Seat

Roane Pikeville

Knox Maryville

Indian Lands Cleveland

Anderson, Claiborne Jacksboro

Coffee, Warren, Wilson Woodbury

Western District Huntingdon

Formerly Carteret Elizabethton

Davidson, Dickson,

Montgomery Ashland City

Hardeman, Madison,

Henderson Henderson

Grainger, Hawkins Tazewell

Jackson, Overton Celina

Jefferson, Bedford, Warren Newport

Franklin Manchester

Dyer, Madison, Gibson Alamo

Bledsoe, Morgan, Roane Crossville

Washington Nashville

Perry Decaturville

Cannon, Warren, White Smithville

Montgomery, Robertson Charlotte

Western District Dyersburg

Shelby, Hardeman Somerville

Morgan, Overton Jamestown

Bedford, Warren Winchester

Western District Trenton

Maury Pulaski

Hawkins, Knox Rutledge

Washington Greenville

Coffee, Warren Altamont

Grainger, Hawkins Morristown

Rhea Chattanooga

Claiborne, Hawkins Sneedville

Western District Bolivar

Western District Savannah

Sullivan Rogersville

Western District Brownsville

Western District Lexington

Western District Paris

Dickson Centervflle

Dickson, Stewart Erin

Stewart, Smith Waverly

Smith Gainesboro

Greene, Hawkins Dandridge

Carter Mountain City

Greene, Hawkins Knoxville

Obion Tiptonville

Dyer, Tipton Ripley

Hickman, Maury Lawrenceburg

Hickman, Maury, Wayne,

Lawrence Hohenwald

Bedford Fayetteville

Blount, Monroe, Roane Loudon

Indian Lands Athen

Hardin Selmer

Smith, Sumner Lafayette

Western District Jackson

Indian Lands Jasper

Bedford, Lincoln : Lewisburg

TENNESSEE

147

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Maury

1807

1820-80

Meigs

1836

1840-80

Monroe

1819

1830-80

Montgomery C3

1796

1820-80

Moore

1871

1880

Morgan

1817

1830-80

Obion

1823

1830-80

Overton

1806

1820-80

Perry

1818

1820-80

Pickett

1879

1880

Polk

1839

1840-80

Putnam

1842

1860-80

Rhea

1807

1830-80

Roane

1801

1830-80

Robertson

1796

1820-80

Rutherford

1803

1810-80

Scott

1849

1850-80

Sequatchie

1857

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Williamson Columbia

Hamilton, McMinn, Rhea Decatur

Roane Madisonville

Tennessee Clarksville

Bedford, Franklin Lynchburg

Roane Wartburg

Western District Union City

Jackson Livingston

Hickman Linden

Fentress, Overton Byrdstown

Bradley, McMinn Benton

Smith, White, DeKalb Cookeville

Roane Dayton

Knox Kingston

Tennessee Springfield

Davidson Murfreesboro

Fentress, Morgan, Anderson .... Huntsville
Hamilton Dunlap

County Map of Tennessee

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Sevier

1794

1830-80

Shelby

1819

482

1820-80

Smith

1799

1820-80

Stewart

1803

1820-80

Sullivan

1779

1830-80

Sumner

1786

1820-80

Tennessee

1788

Tipton

1823

1830-80

Trousdale

1870

1880

Unicoi

1875

1880

Union

1850

1860-80

Van Buren

1840

1850-80

Warren

1807

1820-80

Washington

1777

1830-80

Wayne

1819

1820-80

Weakley

1823

1830-80

White

1806

1820-80

Williamson

1799

1820-80

Wilson

1799

1820-80

Parent County County Seat

Jefferson Sevierville

Hardin Memphis

Sumner Carthage

Montgomery Dover

Washington Blountville

Davidson Gallatin

Co. surrendered name when state

became Tennessee 1796

Western District Covington

Macon, Smith, Wilson Hartsville

Center, Washington Erwm

Anderson, Campbell Maynardville

Bledsoe, Warren, White Spencer

White McMinnville

Covered present state. Many

counties from section Jonesboro

Hickman Waynesboro

Western District Dresden

Smith Sparta

Franklin Franklin

Sumner Lebanon

Texas

Capital, Austin

Texas is sprawling over a larger terri-
tory than any other state in the Union.
It has been under jurisdiction of six
separate governments since 1685, those
of France, Spain, Mexico, the Republic
of Texas, the Confederacy, and the
United States.

In 1820 the white settlers of Texas
could be counted in four digits. Shortly
afterwards, former residents of Ala-
bama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ten-
nessee were brought into the section
under the leadership of Moses Austin
and his son, Stephen. By 1830 more than
20,000 Americans had become tillers
of the Texas soil.

The predominating nationalities repre-
sented in Texas are Germany, Czech-
oslovakia, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Aus-
tria, Ireland, Greece, France, Norway,
Denmark, and Hungary.

Austin has been the capital of Texas
since statehood. Other cities which have
been the capitals of Texas are Sen
Felip de Austin, Washington-on-the-Bra-
zos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and
Columbia during the Revolution, 1835,
1836; Houston, 1837-1839; Austin, 1839;
Houston, Washington - on - the - Brazos,
1842-1845; Austin since 1845.

The State Historical Society in Austin

has many records of value to the gen-
ealogist. Among the public libraries with
genealogical sections are those in San
Antonio, Dallas, Houston, and Fort
Worth. There are collections of material
in the museum libraries of the Daugh-
ters of the Republic of Texas, and the
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
both of which are in the Old Land
Office Building, Austin 11, Texas. The
Archives section of the Texas State Li-
brary, State Capital, Austin 11, Texas,
is a relatively large proportion of the
library's holdings. The Museum Library
of San Jacinto Monument has a collec-
tion of earlier' and colonial period pub-
lications. The Cody Memorial Library,
Southwestern University, Georgetown,
Texas, and the Rosenberg Library in
Galveston also cater to researchers.

Other Texas Libraries — Amarillo,
(Potter), Amarillo Public Library, City
Auditorium; Austin, (Travis), Austin
Public Library, 401 W. 9th St.; Texas
State Library & Historical Commission,
State Capital; The University of Texas,
Mirabeau B. Lamar Library, (Texas His-
tory); Beaumont, (Jefferson), Tyrrell
Public Library, Pearl and Forsythe;
Dallas, (Dallas), Dallas Historical So-
ciety Library, Hall of Records; Dallas

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149

Public Library, Commerce and Harwood
Sts.; El Paso, (El Paso), El Paso Pub-
lic Library, (Southwest); Fort Worth,
(Tarrant), Fort Worth Public Library,
Ninth & Throckmorton Sts., (Southwest-
ern History); Galveston, (Galveston),
Rosenberg Public Library, 823 Tremont;
Houston, (Harris), Harris County Pub-
lic Library, 1223 Elder St. ; Houston Pub-
lic Library, 500 McKinney Ave.; San
Antonio, (Bexar), San Antonio Public
Library, 210 W. Market St.; Waco, (Mc-
Lennan), Baylor University Library,
(Texas History); Waco, Public Library.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics, Texas
State Department of Health, Austin,

Texas, has birth and death records from
1903 to the present, and delayed birth
records from about 1850 to 1951, includ-
ing voluntary registrations made during
and since 1929 for births not registered
at time of events. The City Clerk of
the city, or the County Clerk of the
county may have birth or death records
prior to 1903.

The County Clerk of each county is
custodian of other material of interest
to the genealogical researcher.

Johnson, Sid S. Texans Who Wore the
Gray. Names and deeds of the men who
fought for the South in the war between
the states.

Texas County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Anderson

1846

1850-80

Andrews

1876

1880

Angelina

1846

1850-80

Aransas

1871

1880

Archer

1858

1880

Armstrong

1876

1880

Atascosa

1856

1860-80

Austin

1835

1850-80

Bailey

1876

1880

Bandera

1856

1860-80

Bastrop

1837

1850-80

Baylor

1859

1880

Bee

1857

1860-80

Bell

1850

1860-80

Bexar C3

Bef.

1835

500

1850-80

Blanco

1858

1870-80

Borden

1876

1880

Bosque

1854

1860-80

Bowie

1840

1850-80

Brazoria

1837

1850-80

Brazos

1841

1850-80

Brewster

1887

Briscoe

1876

Brooks

1911

Brown

1856

1860-80

Burelson

1846

1850-80

Burnet

1852

1860-80

Caldwell

1848

1850-80

Calhoun

1846

1850-80

Callahan

1877

1880

Cameron

1848

125

1850-80

Camp

1874

Carson

1876

Cass

1871

1850-80

Castro

1876

Chambers

1858

1860-80

Cherokee

1846

1850-80

Childress

1876

Parent County County Seat

Huston Palestine

Bexar Andrews

Nacogdoches Lufkin

Refugio Rockport

Fannin Archer City

Bexar Claude

Bexar Jourdanton

Old Mexican Municipality Belleville

Bexar Muleshoe

Uvalde Bandera

Old Mexican Municipality Bastrop

Fannin Seymour

Goliad, Refugio Beeville

Bexar Belton

Old Mexican Municipality .... San Antonio

Gillespie, Comal Johnson City

Bexar Gail

McLennan Meridian

Red River Boston

Old Mexican Municipality Angelton

Washington Bryan

Presidio Alpine

Bexar Silverton

Starr, Zapata Falfurrias

Caldwell Brownwood

Milam, Washington Caldwell

Travis Burnet

Gonzales Lockhart

Victoria Port Lavaca

Milam, Travis Baird

Nueces Brownsville

Upshur Pittsburg

Bexar Panhandle

Formerly Davis Linden

Wheeler Dimmitt

Jefferson, Liberty Anahuac

Nacogdoches Rusk

Bexar, Fannin Childress

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Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Clay

1857

1860-80

Cochran

1876

Coke

1889

Coleman

1858

1870-80

Collin

1846

1850-80

Collingsworth El

1876

Colorado

1835

1850-80

Comal

1846

1850-80

Comanche

1856

1860-80

Concho

1858

Cooke

1848

1850-80

Coryell

1854

1860-80

Cottle

1876

Crane

1887

Crockett

1875

Crosby

1909

Culberson

1911

Dallam

1876

Dallas

1846

615

1850-80

Dawson

1876

1860-80

Deaf Smith

1876

Delta

1870

Denton

1846

1850-80

DeWitt

1846

1850-80

Dickens

1876

Dimmit

1880

Donley

1876

Duval

1858

1870-80

Eastland

1858

1860-80

Ector

1891

Edwards

1858

Ellis

1849

1850-80

El Paso

1850

195

1860-80

Erath

1856

1860-80

Falls

1850

1860-80

Fannin

1837

1850-80

Fayette

1837

1850-80

Fisher

1876

1880

Floyd

1890

Foard

1891

Fort Bend

1837

1850-80

Franklin

1875

Freestone

1851

1860-80

Frio

1858

1860-80

Gaines

1876

Galveston

1838

113

1850-80

Garza

1876

Gillespie

1848

1850-80

Glasscock

1893

Goliad

1837

1850-80

Gonzales

1837

1850-80

Gray

1876

Grayson

1846

1850-80

Gregg

1873

Grimes

1846

1850-80

Guadalupe

1846

1850-80

Hale

1876

Hall

1890

Hamilton

1858

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Cooke Henrietta

Bexar Morton

Tom Green Robert Lee

Travis Coleman

Fannin McKinney

Bexar, Fannin Wellington

Old Mexican Municipality Columbus

Bexar, Gonzales New Braunfels

Bosque, Coryell Comanche

Bexar Paint Rock

Fannin Gainesville

Bell, McLennan Gatesville

Fannin Paducah

Tom Green Crane

Bexar Ozona

Garza Crosbyton

El Paso Van Horn

Bexar Dalhart

Nacogdoches Dallas

Bexar Lamesa

Bexar Hereford

Lamar Cooper

Fannin Denton

Golia, Gonzales Cuero

Bexar Dickens

Bexar, Maveric Carrizo Springs

Bexar Clarendon

Live Oak, Starr, Neuces San Diego

Bosque, Corvell, Travis Eastland

Tom Green Odessa

Bexar Rocksprings

Navarro Waxahachie

Old Santa Fe El Paso

Bosque, Coryell Stephenville

Limestone, Milam Marlin

Red River Bonham

Bastrop, Colorado La Grange

Bexar Roby

Bexar Flcydada

Knox, King Crowell

Austin Richmond

Titus Mt. Vernon

Limestone Fairfield

Bexar, Uvalde Pearsall

Bexar Seminole

Brazoria Galveston

Bexar Post

Bexar Fredricksburg

Tom Green Garden City

Old Mexican Municipality Goliad

Old Mexican Municipality Gonzales

Bexar Pampa

Fannin Sherman

Rusk, Upshur Longview

Montgomery Anderson

Bexar, Gonzales Seguin

Bexar Plainview

Bexar Memphis

Bosque, Comanche Hamilton

TEXAS

151

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Bexar Spearman

Fannin Quanah

1860-80 Jefferson, Liberty Kountze

1850-80 Formerly Harrisburg

Municipality Houston

1850-80 Shelby Marshall

Bexar Channing

Fannin, Milam Haskell

1850-80 Travis San Marcos

Bexar Canadian

1850-80 Houston Athens

1860-80 Cameron Edinburg

1860-80 Navarro Hillsboro

Bexar Levelland

1870-80 Johnson Granbury

1850-80 Lamar, Nacogdoches .— Sulpher Springs

1850-80 Nacogdoches Crockett

Bexar Big Spring

El Paso Sierra Blanca

1850-80 Fannin, Nacogdoches Greenville

Bexar Stinnett

Tom Green Metzon

1860-80 Cooke Jacksboro

1850-80 Old Mexican Municipality Edna

1850-80 Old Mexican Municipality Jasper

Presidio Fort Davis

1850-80 Old Mexican Municipality Beaumont

Brooks, Dubai Hebbronville

Nueces Alice

1860-80 McLennan, Navarro Cleburne

Bexar, Bosque Anson

1860-80 Goliad Karnes City

1850-80 Henderson Kaufman

1870-80 Kerr Boerne

Sarita

Bexar Clairemont

1860-80 Bexar Kerrville

1870-80 Bexar Junction

Fannin Guthrie

1860-80 Bexar Brackettville

Nueces Kingsville

Fannin Benjamin

1850-80 Red River Paris

Bexar Olton

1860-80 Bell, Travis Lampasas

1870-80 Bexar, Webb CotuUa

1850-80 Colorado, Victoria, Jackson .... Hallettsville

Bastrop, Colorado Giddings

1850-80 Robertson Centerville

1850-80 Bexar Liberty

1850-80 Robertson Groesbeck

Bexar Lipscomb

1860-80 Nueces George West

1860-30 Bexar Llano

Tom Green Mentone

Bexar Lubbock

Bexar Tahoka

1870-80 Bexar Brady

1860-80 Milam, Robertson, Navarro Waco

1870-80 Bexar. Live Oak Tilden

Hansford

1876

Hardeman

1858

Hardin

1858

Harris

1837

807

Harrison

1839

Hartley

1876

Haskell

1858

Hays

1847

Hemphill

1876

Henderson

1846

Hidalgo

1852

160

Hill

1853

Hockley

1876

Hood

1865

Hopkins

1846

Houston

1837

Howard

1876

Hudspeth

1917

Hunt

1846

Hutchinson

1876

Irion

1889

Jack

1857

Jackson

1836

Jasper

1835

Jeff Davis

1887

Jefferson

1836

195

Jim Hogg

1913

Jim Wells

1911

Johnson

1845

Jones

1881

Karnes

1921

Kaufman

1848

Kendall

1862

Kenedy

Kent

1876

Kerr

1856

Kimble

1858

King

1876

Kinney

1874

Kleberg

1913

Knox

1858

Lamar

1840

Lamb

1876

Lampasas

1856

La Salle

1858

Lavaca

1846

Lee

1874

Leon

1846

Liberty

1837

Limestone

1846

Lipscomb

1875

Live Oak

1856

Llano

1856

Loving

1887

Lubbock

1876

101

Lynn

1876

McCulloch

1856

McLennan

1850

130

McMullen

1858

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Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Madison

1853

1860-80

Marion

1860

1860-80

Martin

1876

Mason

1858

1860-80

Matagorda

1837

1850-80

Maverick

1871

1860-80

Medina

1848

1850-80

Menard

1858

1870-80

Midland

1885

Milam

1835

1850-80

Mills

1887

Mitchell

1876

Montague

1857

1860-80

Montgomery B3

1837

1850-80

Moore

1876

Morris

1875

Motley

1876

Nacogdoches A2

1837

1850-80

Navarro

1846

1850-80

Newton

1846

1850-80

Nolan

1876

Nueces

1846

165

1850-80

Ochiltree

1876

Oldham

1876

Orange

1852

1860-80

Palo Pinto

1856

1860-80

Panola

1846

1850-80

Parker

1855

1860-80

Parmer

1876

Pecos

1871

Polk

1846

1850-80

Potter

1876

Presidio

1850

1860-70

Rains

1870

Randall

1876

Reagan

1903

Real

1913

Red River

1835

1850-80

Reeves

1883

Refugio

1836

1850-80

Roberts

1837

Robertson

1876

1850-80

Rockwall

1873

Runnells

1911

Rusk

1843

1850-80

Sabine

1836

1850-80

San

Augustine A2

1835

1850-80

San Jacinto

1870

San Patricio B4

1835

1850-80

San Saba

1856

1860-80

Schleicher

1887

Scurry

1876

Shackelford

1856

1860-80

Shelby

1836

1850-80

Sherman

1876

Smith

1846

1850-80

Somervell

1875

Starr

1848

1850-80

Parent County County Scat

Leon Madisonville

Cass Jefferson

Bexar Stanton

Bexar .... Mason

Old Mexican Municipality Bay City

Kennedy Eagle Pass

Bexar Hondo

Bexar Menard

Tom Green Midland

Old Mexican Municipality Cameron

Brown, Hamilton Goldthwaite

Bexar Colorado City

Cooke Montague

Washington Conroe

Bexar Dumas

Titus Daingerfield

Bexar Matador

Old Mexican Municipality .... Nacogdoches

Robertson Corsicana

Jasper Newton

Bexar Sweetwater

San Patricio Corpus Christi

Bexar Perryton

Bexar Vega

Jefferson Orange

Navarro Palo Pinto

Harrison, Shelby Carthage

Bosque, Navarro Weatherford

Bexar Farwell

Presidio Fort Stockton

Liberty Livingston

Bexar Amarillo

Bexar Marfa

Hopkins, Hunt Emory

Bexar Canyon

Tom Green Big Lake

Bandera, Kerr Leakey

Old Mexican Municipality Clarksville

Pecos Pecos

Old Mexican Municipality Refugio

Bexar Miami

Bexar Franklin

Kaufman Rockwall

Coleman Ballinger

Nacogdoches Henderson

Old Mexican Municipality Hemphill

Old Mexican Municipality .. San Augustine

Liberty Coldspring

Old Mexican Municipality Sinton

Bexar San Saba

Crockett Eldorado

Bexar Snyder

Bosque Albany

Old Mexican Municipality Center

Bexar Stratford

Nacogdoches Tyler

Hood Glen Rose

Nueces Rio Grande City

TEXAS

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Stephens C2 1876 11 1870-80 Bosque Breckenridge

Sterling D2 1891 1 Tom Green Sterling City-
Stonewall Dl 1876 4 Fannin Aspermont

Sutton D3 1870 4 Wood Sonora

Swisher F2 1876 8 Bexar Tulia

Tarrant B2 1849 361 il850-80 Navarro Fort Worth

Taylor C2 1858 63 Bexar Abilene

Terrell D3 1905 3 Pecos Sanderson

Terry El 1876 13 Bexar Brownfield

Throckmorton CI 1858 4 n860-80 Bosque Throckmorton

Titus Al 1846 17 1850-80 Red River Mt. Pleasant

Tom Green D2 1875 59 Bexar San Angelo

Travis B3 1840 161 1850-80 Bastrop Austin

Trinity A2 1850 10 1860-80 Houston Groveton

Tyler A3 1846 11 1850-80 Liberty Woodville

Upshur A2 1846 21 1850-80 Harrison, Nacogdoches Gilmer

Upton D2 1887 5 Tom Green Rankin

Uvalde C3 1850 16 1860-80 Bexar Uvalde

Val Varde D3 1885 17 Crockett. Kinney Del Rio

Van Zandt B2 1848 23 1850-80 Henderson Canton

Victoria B4 1837 31 1850-80 Old Mexican Municipality Victoria

Walker B3 1846 20 1850-80 Huntsville

Waller B3 1873 12 Austin Hempstead

Ward E2 1887 13 Tom Green Monahans

Washington B3 1837 21 1850-80 Texas Municipality Brenham

Webb F4 1848 56 1850-80 Bexar Laredo

Wharton B3 1846 36 1850-80 Colorado, Jackson Wharton

Wheeler El 1876 10 Bexar Wheeler

Wichita CI 1858 98 Fannin Wichita Falls

Wilbarger CI 1858 21 Bexar Vernon

Willacy E4 1911 21 Hidalgo Raymondville

Williamson B3 1848 39 1850-80 Milam Georgetown

Wilson C3 1850 15 1870-80 Bexar Floresville

Winkler E2 1887 10 Tom Green Kermit

Wise CI 16 1860-80 Cooke Decatur

Wood B2 1850 21 1860-80 Van Zandt Quitman

Yoakum El 1876 4 Bexar Plains

Young CI 1856 17 1860-80 Bosque Graham

Zapata F4 1858 4 1860-80 Starr, Webb Zapata

Zavalla C4 1858 11 1860-80 Uvalde, Maverick Crystal City

1. Tarrant U. S. Census Schedule for 1860 is missing.

2. Throckmorton U. S. Census Schedule for 1870 missing

Census schedules available for the following discontinued counties: Buchanan,
1860; Davis, 1870; Encinal, 1860, 1870.

Utah

As the Puritans, the
Quakers, the Huguenots, and many other
religious devotees came to the American

Capital, Salt Lake City

Pilgrims, the Utah. When

they came the land was
barren and desolate, nothing but the
bluish gray of the sagebrush and grease-

shore for the opportunity to worship wood covered the land. Not a sign of
Almighty God according to their con- human life, except here and there, scat-
science, so the members of the Church tered along the shores of a small lake
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the banks of a tiny mountain stream,
or the so-called "Mormons," came to a few Indian wigwams. Not even the
the then arid forbidding valleys of hoofprints of the horses that carried

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Father Escalante and Father Dominguez alogical material. Their microfilm pho-
on a hurried journey through part of tographers have been working in 22
the state seventy-one years earlier were states and the District of Columbia in
anywhere to be found. the U. S, In Europe their activities have

It was on July 24, 1847, that the colon- taken them to England, Ireland, Scot-
ization of the Great Salt Lake Basin land, Wales, Isle of Man, Sweden, the
began with the arrival on the site of Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Germa-
the present Salt Lake City of the first ny, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, France,
Pioneer group 148 . . . 143 men, three Italy and other countries. They also
women, and two boys. New groups ar- have many records from Mexico and
rived several times each month. In Canada. In some of these areas they have
three years, 1850, there were 11,380; completed the filming of all the birth,
in 1860, 40,273; in 1870, 86,786; in death and marriage records available to
1880, 143,963; in 1890, 210,779; in 1900, the public, while in others they are con-
276,749; in 1910, 373,351; in 1920, 449,398; tinuing the work of gathering and film-
in 1930, 507,847; in 1940, 550,310; in 1950, ing records of 100 years ago and older.
688,862. You will also find in their film files the

Most of the early settlers of Utah U. S. Census Records of 1830, 1840, 1850
came from New England, Ohio, Illinois, and 1860 generally complete for all
Missouri, and Canada, and since then states, and part of the 1870 census,
from almost every state in the Union. Their archives department receives
Most of the Europeans who have come about 1,000 family group sheets every
in order of their numerical strength, day from patrons all over the world,
are English, Germans, Danes, Swedes, These are filed in alphabetic order and
Norwegians, Swiss, Hollanders .Welsh, and are accessible to researchers. They are
Scotch, with a sprinkling of Piedmont compiled from information gleaned from
Italians, and a few Czechs , Many many sources about family groups
Austrians, Greeks, Mexicans and Ital- (father, mother and children), some of
ians, not affected by church affiliation, them being truly ancient and others
have come to work in the mining and still living. Employees of the society
smelting operations of the state. Only check each sheet and consider them ab-
about two per cent of the population solutely accurate prior to acceptance,
are Negroes. Between 2y2 and 3 million family group

The Division of Vital Statistics, State sheets and 40,000 pedigree sheets are
Board of Health, Capital Bldg., Salt available for patron's use in this depart-
Lake City, Utah, has records of births ment.

since 1890 and deaths since 1848. Mar- According to Archibald F. Bennett,
riage records are at the offices of the who for years has been executive secre-
County Clerks. tary of the society, they will do research

The principal sources of genealogical for anyone so desiring. However, they
information are the LDS Church records have had such great demands for this
which have been carefully kept and work in certain localities they are far
preserved since 1830. Besides that, re- behind in their orders — for instance,
cords have been gathered for years Swedish research is two years in arrears
from all over the world and brought because competent help is not available
to Salt Lake City by the Genealogical The charge tor these services is $1.50
Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of per hour at this writing. Inquiries should
Latter-day Saints. be addressed to THE GENEALOGICAL

The growth of this society has been SOCIETY, 80 North Main St., Salt Lake
astounding. An increase of over 5,000 City, Utah.

volumes has been noted in the past three About 95 miles north of Salt Lake
years, bringing the total to over 55,000. City is located the beautiful Cache Val-
During that same period they have ac- ley with its principal city, Logan. A
quired microfilms of unpublished records block east of its business section is the
equaling 329,000 volumes of 300 pages Cache County Library. One of the im-
each, almost doubling their microfilm pcrtant departments of that Library is
acquisitions. They now have a total of the genealogical section, not large, but
110,454 - 100 ft. rolls of microfilms from choice. It is good enough to elicit from
foreign countries and 33,934 rolls of a stranger who has visited most of the
American films with a staggering total important libraries on a leisurely auto
of 215,868,100 pages of unpublished gene- trip across the nation the remark, "This

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is the best Genealogical Library I have
seen between the Mississippi and the
Pacific, with the exception, of course,
of your large library in Salt Lake City."

At the close of 1956 the genealogical
shelves of the Cache County Library
held about 8,000 volumes of genealogical
records from almost every state in the
Union and many from Great Britain.
The library is financed by tax money
equally divided between Cache County
and Logan City, about $4,500.00 coming
from each of the two taxing units. In
past years, the Board of Directors, an
equal number serving at the pleasure
of the county and the city commission,
has alloted from $400 to $450 each year
for the purchase of books to the gen-
ealogical department. Merchants of Lo-
gan have also donated toward the book
fund. One year they gave more than
$7,000.00. The book selections are made
by the voluntary department assistants.
Many organizations, civic and religious,
as well as private citizens donate several
hundred dollars each year toward the
book fund. When deaths have occured
in families interested in genealogy, they
have requested that instead of sending
flowers money be donated to the library
for the purchase of genealogical books.

Unique is the system of assistance
provided for the researchers. Since
most of those coming to the library
to search the records are amateurs, some
sixty persons have been called as assist-
ant librarians to aid and advise research-
ers. They work in pairs. Generally
they spend from four to seven hours
each day they are on duty. Some of them

give one day's service each week, a few
two days. Their work is entirely gratui-
tous. No monetary compensation whatso-
ever is given to any one assisting in the
genealogical department. Most of these
aides have given this service for at least
one year. Several have been there from
seven to ten years. Some of these aides
have become more or less expert, es-
pecially those who have taken special
studies in research activities.

The patrons are permitted to select
from the shelves the books they desire to
study at the long desks in the depart-
ment. No books are permitted to be
taken from the library. A stranger
coming into the genealogical depart-
ment, if she is at all acquainted with
research procedure, is immediately at
home among the books.

Any community with an enthusiastic
genealogists can do for his or her library
what has been done here. Several years
ago the late Walter M. Everton, the
founder of the GENALOGICAL HELP-
ER and the HANDY BOOK FOR GEN-
EALOGISTS, opened the genealogical
section of the Cache County Library.
He brought with him to the library one
genealogical book he had purchased some
time previously. He appealed for books
from those interested, money from those
who had no books. He solicited the mer-
chants of Logan for donations and collect-
ed about $7,000.00, all of which was spent
for books. It is mainly through his ef-
forts and the cooperation of the Board
of Directors of the library that there
are now about 8,000 genealogical books
on the shelves of the department.

Utah County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census
Reports
Available

Beaver

1856

1860-80

Box Elder

1856

1860-80

Cache

1856

1860-80

Carbon

1894

Daggett
Davis

B4
B2

1917
1850

1850-80

Duchesne

1914

Emery
Garfield

D3
F3

1880
1864

Grand

1892

Iron

1852

1850-80

Juab

1849

1860-80

Kane

1864

1870-80

Millard

1852

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Iron, Millard - Beaver

Unorganized Territory Brigham

Unorganized Territory Logan

Sanpete Price

Uinta Manila

Salt Lake Farmington

Wasatch Duchesne

Sanpete, Sevier Castle Dale

Iron, Sevier, Kane Panguitch

Emery, Uintah Moab

Unorganized Territory Parowan

Original county Nephi

Washington, Unorganized Terr Kanab

Juab Fillmore

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Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available Parent County

County Seat

Morgan B2 1862 3 1870-80 Davis, Summit Morgan

Piute E2 1866 2 1870-80 Sevier Junction

Rich A3 1864 2 1870-80 Formerly Richland Randolph

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Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

Salt Lake B2 1849 275 1850-80 Orig. Co. (Great S. L.) .... Salt Lake City

San Juan F4 1880 5 Kane Monticello

Sanpete D3 1849 14 1850-80 Original county Manti

Sevier D2 1864 12 1870-80 Sanpete Richfield

Summit B3 1854 7 1860-80 Salt Lake Coalville

Tooele Bl 1849 15 1850-80 Original county Tooele

Uintah C4 1880 10 Wasatch Vernal

Utah C2 1849 82 1850-80 Original county Provo

Wasatch B3 1862 6 1870-80 Summit Heber

Washington Fl 1852 10 1860-80 Unorganized Territory St. George

Wayne E3 1864 2 1880 Piute Loa

Weber A2 1849 83 1850-80 Original County Ogden

Available Census information from discontinued Utah counties: Carson, 1860,
1870; Cedar, 1860; Humboldt, 1860, 1870 (See Nevada, vol. 1); Rio Virgin, 1870;
Saint Marys, 1860.

Vermont

Capital, Montpelier

Vermont was late in getting settled
as compared with other states in New
England. One reason was the hostility
of the French and Indians in the Quebec
district north of Vermont. As soon as
the French released all claims on the
sections within the Ame^^ican colonies,
security was established and settlers felt
free to go into the distant and lonely
Vermont sections. As early as 1724 Eng-
lish people living along the New Eng-
land coastline became interested in Ver-
mont.

Massachusetts and Connecticut played
the biggest role in the settling of Ver-
mont, although people moved from sev-
eral of the other states to settle the
communities established in Vermont
from 1714 on, but mostly between 1740
and 1800. As mentioned, Connecticut
and Massachusetts furnished settlers for
almost every early community in Ver-
mont, but settlers also came from Can-
ada, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode
Island, Maine, and New Jersey.

French Canadians came into the north-
ern counties as late as the 1900s. They
were preceded by several years by the
Irish. Into the Markham Mountain re-
gion in southwestern Windsor county
and the Equinox Mountain section of
northern Bennington County came many
farmers from Finland. Welsh came to
work in the slate quarries in the mid-
west section of Rutland County. Scotch
and Italian stone cutters came to the

quarries southeast of Montpelier. Rus-
sians, Poles, Czechs, Austrians, and
Swedes came to the granite quarries of
Rutland County. About half of the for-
eign born population of Vermont came

from Canada.

The fourteenth state in the Union,
Vermont was admitted in 1791. The
slate had a population in 1950 of
377,747. In 1790 there were 85,425 in-
habitants.

Birth, marriage, and death records
from approximately 1760 until the pre-
sent time are on file in the office of
the Secretary of State, Division of Vital
Records, State House, Montpelier, Ver-
mont. Each month this office receives
a group of vital records from the town
and the county officers. These records
are genreally about six months in ar-
rear. It may be well to try the City or
Town Clerk if the Secretary of State
does not have the record.

Wills are recorded in the twenty pro-
bate districts of the state, with each
county having one or more probate dis-
trict. For information write the Regis-
trar, Probate Court, County Seat. Deeds
are recorded in 246 Town and fourteen
County Clerks offices. Land grants are
on file in the offices of the Town Clerk.
Census records are available at the State
Library in Montpelier. Tax payers lists
are with the Town Clerks. War service
records are on file in the office of the
Adjutant General in Montpelier. Ceme-

VERMONT 159

tery records are with the church records Shelburne, 1768; St. George, 1784; Un-
of the sextons. derhill, 1786; Willistown, 1774.

Carleton, Hiram, Genealogical & Fami- ESSEX, Organized 1797. Bloomfield,
ly History ol the State o/ Vermont, 2 vols . 1762; Brunswick, 1780; Canaan. 1791;
Lewis Publishing Co., New York, Chicago. Concord, 1783; Guildhall, 1764; Lunen-
1903. burg, 1770; Maidstone, 1772; Victory,

Clark, Byron N., A List of Pensioners of 1781.
the War of 1812. pub. 1904. FRANKLIN, Organized 1796. Bakers-

DoDGE, Prentiss Cutler, Encyclopedia, field, 1799; Berkshire, 1780; Enosburgh,
Vermont Biography, pub.. 1912. 1797; Fairfax, 1783; Fairfield, 1788;

First Census of the United States, 1790, Fletcher, 1781; Franklin ,1789; Georgia,
Vermont, Government Printing Office, 1907. 1784-5; Highgate, 1763; Montgomery,

Goodrich, John E.. Vermont Rolls of the 1780; Richford. 1797; Sheldon, 1790;
Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, Publish- Swantown, 1787; St. Albans, 1775.
ed by authority of the Legislature, The GRAND ISLE, Organized 1802. Al-
Tuttle Co.. Rutland. Vt.. 1904. burgh, 1782; Grand Isle, 1783; Isle la

Heads of Families, Second Census of the Mott, 1785; North Hero 1783; South
United States, 1800, State of Vermont, Hero, 1779.

Published by Vermont Historical Society. LAMOILLE, Organized 1835. Cam-
Montpelier, Vt., 1938. bridge, 1783; Elmore, 1790; Hyde Park,

WPA. Bibliography of Research Projects 1787; Johnson, 1784; Morristown, 1790;
Reports, Check List of Historical Records Sterling, 1799; Stowe, 1793; Waterville,
Survey Publications, 1940. 1789; Wolcott, 1781.

Vermont Libraries: Burlington (Chit- ORANGE, Organized 1781. Bradford,
tenden). University of Vermont and S. 1765; Braintree, S. 1783; Brookfield,
State (Agricultural) College Libraries, S. 1771; Chelsea, S. 1784; Corinth. O.
Billings Library, (Vermont), (Civil War); 1777; Fairlee, S. 1766; Newbury, S. 1763;
Montpelier, (Washington), Vermont Orange, O. 1793; Randolph, O. 1781;
Free Public Library Commission, State Stratford, S. 1768; Thetford, S. 1764;
Library Bldg.; Vermont Historical So- Topsham, S. 1781; Turnbridge, S. 1776;
ciety Library, State House, (History. Vershire, O. 1780; Washington, O. 1785;
Vermontiana). W. Fairlee, 1761; Williamtown, 1784.

Vermont Towns Organized Before 1800 ORLEANS, Organized 1797. Barton,

ADDISON, organized 1785. Addison, 1789; Craftsbury, 1788; Derby, 1795;
1783; Bridport, 1786; Cornwall, 1774; Glover, 1797; Greensborough, 1789; Hol-
Ferrisburgh, 1769; Leicester, 1774; Liri- land, 1800; Jay, S. bef. Rev.; Salem,
coin. 1790; Middlebury, 1766; Monktown, 1798; Westfield. 1790.
1774; New Haven, 1769; Orwell, 1775; RUTLAND, Organized 1781. Benson,
Panton, 1764; Ripton, 1781; Salisbury, 1783; Brandon, 1772; Castleton, 1767;
1774; Shoreham, 1766; Starksborough, Chittenden aft. Rev.; Clarendon, 1768;
1788; Vergennes, 1764; Waltham, S. bef. Danby, 1765; Fairhaven, 1779; Hubbard-
Rev.; Weybridge, 1775; Whiting, 1773. ton, 1775; Ira, 1779; Mendon, 1781;

BENNINGTON, organized 1779 Ar- Middletown, 1774; Mt. Holly, 1787; Mt.
lington, 1763; Bennington, 1761; Dorset, Tabor, 1761; Pawlet, 1761; Pittsford,
1768; Glastenbury, 1661; Landgrove, 1767; Poultney, 1777; Rutland, 1769;
1761; Manchester, 1764; Peru abt. 1773; Sherburn, 1785; Shrewsbury, 1763; Sud-
Pownal, 1762; Rupert, 1767; Sandgate, bury, bef. Rev.; Tinsmith, 1770; Wall-
1771; Shaftsbury, 1763; Sunderland, ingsford, 1773; Wells, 1768; West Haven,
1766; Winhall, 1761. 1770.

CALEDONIA, Organized 1796. Barnet, WASHINGTON, Organized 1810. Barre,
1770; Burke, 1790; Cabot, 1785; Dan- 1780; Berlin 1785; Calais, 1787; Dux-
ville, 1785; Groton, 1787; Hardwick, 1790; bury, 1786; Payston, 1798; Marshfield,
Kirby, 1799; Lyndon, 1788; Peacham, 1782; Middlesex, 1787; Montpelier, 1786;
1775; Ryegate, 1774; Sheffield, 1792; St. Moretown, 1790; Northfield, 1785; Plains-
Johnsbury, 1786; Sutton, 1791; Walden, field, 1794; Roxbury, 1789; Waitsfield,
1789; Waterford, 1797; Wheelock, 1785. 1789; Warren, 1797; Waterbury, 1784;

CHITTENDEN, Organized 1787. Bol- Worcester, 1797.
ton, 1763; Burlington, 1773; Charlotte, WINDHAM, 1781. Athens, 1780; Brat-
1776; Colchester, 1772; Essex, 1783; tleboro, 1724; Brookline, 1777; Dover,
Hinesburg ,1774; Huntington, 1786; Jer- 1780; Grafton, 1768; Guilford, 1761; Hal-
icho, 1774; Milton, 1783; Richmond, 1775; if ax, 1761; Jamacia, 1780; Londonderry,

160

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

1773; Marlborough, 1763; Newfane, 1766; water, 1779; Cavendish, 1769; Chester,

Putney, 1744; Rockingham, 1753; Town- 1764; Hartford, 1763; Hartland, 1763;

send, 1761; Woodborough, 1780; West- Ludlow, 1714; Norwich, 1762; Plymouth,

minister, 1741; Whitington, 1771; Wil- 1777; Pomfret, 1770; Reading, 1772; Roy-

mington S. bef. Rev.; Windham, 1773. alton, 1771; Sharon, 1764; Springfield,

WINDSOR, Organized before State- 1761; Stockbridge, 1784; Weathersfield,

hood. Andover, 1776; Baltimore, 1794; 1761; Weston, 1790; Windsor, 1764;

Barnard, 1774; Bethel, 1779; Bridge- Woodstock, 1768.

County Map of Vermont

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161

Vermont County Histories

^Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Addison

1785

1790-80

Bennington

1779

1790-80

Caledonia

1792

1800-80

Chittenden

1787

1790-80

Essex

1792

1800-80

Franklin

1792

1800-80

Grand Isle

1802

1810-80

Lamoille

1835

1840-80

Orange

1781

1790-80

Orleans

1792

1800-80

Rutland

1781

1790-80

Washington

1810

1820-80

Windham

1779

1790-80

Windsor

1781

1790-80

Parent County County Seat

Rutland Middlebury

Original county Manchester

Bennington
Newly Organized Territory .. St. Johnsbury

Original county Burlington

Unorganized Territory Guildhall

Chittenden St. Albans

Franklin North Hero

Chittenden Hyde Park

Original county Chelsea

Original county Newport

Original county Rutland

Addison, Orange Montpelier

Bennington Newfane

Original county Woodstock

Virginia

Capital, Richmond

The colonization of the American con-
tinent in modern times began with the
arrival of three boatloads of English
immigrants in May, 1607 on the north-
east shore of James River in the pre-
sent Virginia.

One of the leaders was Captain John
Smith, a daring adventurous fellow
with an inquisitive mind who had been
in many tight situations on the out-
skirts of civilization. With a score of
companions, he sailed into several of
the many bays and river openings along
the zigzagging east coast, and thus be-
came acquainted with the lay of the
land.

Having done nothing to provide food
for the winter, more than half of the
colony succumbed from illness and lack
of nourishing food.

The summer of 1608 brought them
new supplies from England and 120
more immigrants.

In the fall of 1608 the colony of 130
or 140 persons was augmented by the
arrival of seventy more immigrants in
the third expedition to Virginia.

At the beginning of the winter of
1609 the colony consisted of 490 per*
sons. When the spring of 1610 arrived
there were only 60 persons left in the
colony.

Determined to return to England, the

group embarked. The ship was coming
out of the mouth of the James River
when Virginia bound ships under the
command of Lord Delaware came in
sight. Against their own judgment, the
disgruntled colonists were persuaded to
return to their abandoned homes.

Early in 1610 more food and additional
colonists arrived from England.

Virgina became a royal colony in
1624. From then until 1776, when it
announced its independence, it was in
almost constant trouble with the Crown
or its representatives. Mainly, the col-
onists objected to the arbitrary action
of the colony officials and their ruthless
demands.

Every month in the year, with the ex-
ception of the winter months, saw boat-
loads of new immigrants arriving. More
and more settlements were established,
some as far north as the Potomac River.
By 1700 there were more than 80,000
persons living in the Tidewater region
of Virginia. Twenty thousand more had
come by 1717. During the next 37 years,
the population increased by almost two
hundred per cent, reaching 284,000 by
1754.

Even before that time the settlers
had scattered over the coastal plain,
the Piedmont plateau, and had crossed
over the Blue Ridge highlands and set-

162 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Ited in the Valley of Virginia, with the books may be obtained at a reasonable

Appalachian Plateau at their back, price. The library has Parish Registers

There they had settled along the rivers, and Vestry Books from 1618 to 1860.

hundreds of miles from the coast line. Not that all of those records are from

As early as 1730 there had been a that period, but somewhere within that
heavy immigration from Pennsylvania span of time. The exact records avail-
into Virginia of Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and able are published in Bennett's "Me-
Gcrmans, most of whom settled in the thods of Tacing Pedigrees," Lesson 13,
upper valleys. Naturally, therefore, it page 5. (This is a mimeographed book-
was in that section where flourished leL, stapled at top, and printed on sheets
the Welsh Baptist Church, the English SH-xM.)

Quakers, and the Scotch Presbyterian.^. The State Bureau of Vital Statistics,

Methodist ahurches were established Richmond, Va., has birth and death re-

about 1800. cords from 1853 to 1896, and after 1912.

Virginia was well settled by 1775. Marriage records are available from
By 1800 it had upwards of 90 counties 1853 to the present. Some marriage
and a population of nearly a million. bonds are in the State Library, Rich-
Nine other states had preceded Vir- mond, Va., others are in the office of
ginia into the Union when she entered the Clerk of the Court or city in which
in June 1788. In the first three U. S. the marriage took place. Several of the
Census reports, 1790, 1800, 1810, Vir- so-called independent cities have their
ginia registered the highest population own records of birth and deaths. Inquire
in the nation. In 1820 she was second at the City Board of Health office,
to New York. In 1830 she was surpassed The Virginia Land Office, State Cap-
by New York and Pennsylvania. ital, Richmond, Va., has land patents or

Foreign born residents predominate grants since 1620. Numerous volumes

in the following order in Virginia: Rus- exist. The entries in these patent books

sians, English, Germans, Italians, Greeks, are indexed in one volume, but each

Polish, Czechs, Irish, Austrians and Hun- book is indexed independently of the

garians. others.

Until 1686 the Episcopal Church wa.s Virginia's independant cities are Al-
the state church in Virginia. All child- exandria, Bristol, Buena Vista, Char-
ren, regardless of religious affiliation, lottesville, Clifton Forge, Colonial
were required to be baptized by the min- Heights, Danville, Falls Church, Fred-
isters of that church. Dates of their ericksburg, Hampton, Harrisonburg,
baptism, together with their names, Hopewell, Lynchburg, Martinsville, New-
dates of birth, and names of their par- port News, Norfolk, Petersburg, Ports-
ents were recorded in the parish reg- mouth, Radford. Richmond, Roanoke,
isters. The same information was taken South Norfolk, Stauton, Suffolk, Waynes-
of all marriages and burials. All of boro, Williamsburg and Winchester,
these church records are preserved, Virginia libraries — Charlottesville,
some are printed. They are available (Albemarle), University of Virginia, Al-
in the Virginia State Library in Rich- derman Library, (Virginiana) ; Danville,
mond. (Pittsylvania), Danville Public Library,

The Quit Rent list is used as a Cen- 975 Main St.; Fredricksburg, (Spotsyl-
sus Report or Schedule. In 1704 all Vir- vania), Mary Washington College of the
ginia landowners, except those in Lan- University of Virginia, E. Lee Trinkle
caster, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Library, (Virginiana, American History) ;
Richmond and Stafford counties, had to Lexington, (Rockbridge), Virginia Mili-
pay to the king a Quit Rent of one tary Institute, Preston Library, (Con-
shilling for each fifty acres bought. federate History); Norfolk, (Norfolk),

Since the 1790 U. S. Census records Norfolk Public Library, 345 W. Free-

were destroyed in a fire, Fothergill and mason St., (local history); Richmond,

Naugle in 'Taxpayers of Virginia" have (Henrico), Richmond Public Library,

tried to augment similar lists gathered 101 E. Franklin St.; Union Theological

from other counties by the government. Seminary Library, 3401 Brook Rd., (Pres-

Excellent service is extended research- byterian History); Virginia Historical

ers at the Virginia State Library in Rich- Society, 707 E. Franklin St. (mss. Vir-

mond, Va. Loan volumes are limited ginia and Colonial Americans, Confeder-

to those books of which they have dup- ate state histories); Virginia State Li-

licates. Photostats of original record brary. Capital St., (Virginia and South-

VIRGINIA

163

ern history, Virginia newspapers and
public records); Roanoke, (Roanoke),
Roanoke Public Library, 722 S. Jeffer-
son St.; Williamsburg, (James City),
College of William and Mary Library,
(Virginiana, Early Americana).

Some of the more important books on
Virginia:

Burgess, Louis A., Virginia Soldiers o/
1776. 3 Vol.. pub. 1927 Richmond Press.
Richmond, Va.

Du Bellet, Louise Pecquet. Some Promi-
nent Virginia Families, 4 Vol. pub 1907
Lynchburg.

GwATHMEY, John H.. Historical Register
o/ Virginia in the Revolution, — Soldiers.
Sailors. Marines. 1775-1783. Pub. 1938,
Dietz Press, Richmond. Va.

Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, Virginia
Genealogies, Reprint 1931, The Rare Book
Shop. Washington. D. C.

Nugent, Nell Marion, Cavaliers and
Pioneers, Abstracts of Land Patents and
Grants 1623-1800. 5 Vol. pub. 1934. Deitz
Printing Co.. Richmond. Va.

SwEM, E. G.. Virginia Historical Index,
2 Vol. pub. 1934. Stone Printing and Mfg.
Co.. Roanoke, Va.

Virginia Magazine o[ History and Bio-
graphy, Published by the Virginia Historical
Society, 707 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va.

William and Mary Quarterly, (a maga-
zine of early American history, institutions
and culture) Published by College of Wil-
liam and Mary. Williamsburg. Va.

Name

Accomac

Albemarle

Alexandria

Map
Index

B4
B2

Alleghany Bl

Amelia C2

Amherst B2

Appomatox C2

Arlington A3

Augusta B2

Bath Bl

Bedford
Bland
Botetourt
Brunswick

CI
D3
Bl
C3

Buchanan D2
Buckingham B2
Campbell C2
Caroline B3

Carroll D3

Charles City B3
Charlotte C2

Chesterfield B3
Clarke A2

Craig CI

Culpeper B2
Cumberland B2
Dickenson D2
Dinwiddle C3
Elizabeth City C4
Essex B3

Virginia County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Census
Date Pop. Report.s

Formed By M Available Parent County County Seat

1661-2 34 1810-80 Northampton Accomac

1744 53 1810-80 Goochland, Louisa Charlottesville

1801 1850-80 Fairfax, became part of Dist.

of Columbia

1822 29 1830-80 Bath, Botetourt, Monroe Covington

1734 8 1810-80 Brunswick, Prince George Amelia

1761 20 1810-80 Albemarle Amherst

1845 9 1850-80 Buckingham, Campbell,

Charlotte, Prince Edward .... Appomattox

1801 197 1810-80 Fairfax Arlington

1738-4566 1810-80 Orange Staunton

1790-1 6 1810-80 Augusta, Botetourt,

Greenbrier Warm Springs

1753-4 30 1810-80 Albemarle, Lunenburg Bedford

1861 6 1870-80 Giles, Tazewell, Wythe Bland

1769-7016 1810-80 Augusta, Rockbridge Fincastle

1720-3220 1810-80 Prince George Isle of

Wight, Surry Lawrenceville

1858 36 1860-80 Russell. Tazewell Grundy

1761 12 1810-80 Albemarle, Appomattox .... Buckingham

1781-2 77 1810-80 Bedford Rustburg

1727-8 12 1810-80 Essex, King and Queen,

King William Bowling Green

1842 27 1850-80 Grayson, Patrick Hillsville

1634 5 1810-80 Original Shire Charles City

1764-5 14 1810-80 Lunenburg Charlotte

Court Hoase

1749 46 1810-80 Henrico Chesterfield

1836 7 1840-80 Frdeerick, Warren Berryville

1851 3 1860-80 Botetourt, Giles, Roanoe, Monroe,

Alleghany, Montgomery Newcastle

1748-9 13 1810-80 Orange Culpeper

1748-9 7 1810-80 Goochland Cumberland

1880 23 Buchanan, Russell, Wise Clintwood

1752 54 1810-80 Prince Georg e Dinwiddle

1634 61 1810-80 Orig. Shire Hampton

1692 7 1810-80 Old Rappahannock Tappahannock

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Fairfax

Fauquier

Floyd

Fluvanna

Franklin

Frederick

Giles

Map
Index

A3
A3
D3
B2
CI
A2
D3

B3
B3
CI
Bl

Gloucester B4
Goochland B2
Grayson D3

Greene B2

Greensville C3
Halifax C2

Hanover
Henrico
Henry
liighland
Isle of Wight C3
James City C3
King and

Queen B3

King George B3
King

William
Lancaster
Lee

Loudoun
Louisa
Lunenburg C2
Madison B2

Mathews B4
Mecklenburg C2
Middlesex B4
Montgomery D3

Date Pop.
Formed By M

1742 106
1759 21
1831 11
1777 7
1785-6 25
1738-4331
1806 19

1651 10

1727-8 9

1792-3 21

1838 5

1780-1 16

1752 41

1720-1 22
1634 288

1776-7 48

1847 4

1634 15

1634 13

1691
1720-1

B3
B4
Dl
A3
B2

1701-2 8
1651 9
1792-3 36
1757 21
1742 13
1746 14
1792-3 8
1790-1 7
1764-5 33
1673-4 7
1776-7 39

Nelson B2 1807-8 14

New Kent B3 1654 4

Norfolk C4 1691 404

Northampton B4 1634 17
Northumberland B4 1648 10

Nottoway C2 1788-9 15

Orange B2 1734 13

Page A2 1831 15

Patrick D3 1790-1 16

Pittsylvania CI 1766-7101
Powhatan B3

Prince

Edward
Prince

George
Prince

William
Princess

Anne
Pulaski

1777

C2 1753-4 15

C3 1702-3 30

A3 1730-1 23

Census
Reports
Available

1810-80
1810-80
1840-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80

1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1840-80
1810-80
1820-80
1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1850-80
1810-80
1820-80

1810-80
1810-80

1820-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1820-80
1810-80

Parent County

County Seat

Nansemond C4 1637 38 1820-80

C4
D3

1691
1839

Rappahannock A2 1833

1810-80
1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1810-80
1810-80
1820-80
1840-80
1820-80
1820-80
1810-80

1810-80

1810-80
1840-80
1840-80

Prince William, Loudoun Fairfax

Prince William Warrenton

Montgomery, Franklin Floyd

Albemarle Palmyra

Bedford, Henry, Patrick — Rockymount

Orange, Augusta Winchester

Montgomery, Monroe, Tazewell,

Craig, Mercer, Wythe Pearisburg

York Gloucester

Henrico Goochland

Wythe, Patrick Independence

Orange Stanardsville

Brunswick, Sussex Emporia

Lunnenburg Halifax

New Kent Hanover

Original Shire Richmond

Pittsylvania, Patrick Martinsville

Bath, Pendleton Monterey

Original Shire Isle of Wight

Original Shire Williamsburg

New Kent King & Queen C. H.

Richmond, Westmoreland .... King George

King and Queen King William

Northumberland, York Lancaster

Russell, Scott Jonesville

Fairfax Leesburg

Hanover Louisa

Brunswick Lunenburg

Culpeper Madison

Gloucester Mathews

Lunenburg Boydton

Lancaster Saluda

Fincastle, Botetourt,

Pulaski Christiansburg

New Norfolk (called Upper

Norfolk to 1642) Suffolk

Amherst Lovingston

York (Pt. James City) New Kent

Lower Norfolk Portsmouth

Original Shire Eastville

York Heathsville

Amelia Nottoway

Spotsylvania Orange

Rockingham, Shenandoah Luray

Henry Stuart

Halifax Chatham

Cumberland, Chesterfield Powhatan

Amelia Farmville

Charles City Prince George

King George, Stafford Manassas

Lower Norfolk Princess Anne

Montgomery, Wythe Pulaski

Culpeper Washington

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165

Name

Map Date Pop.

Index Formed By M

Richmond B3
Roanoke CI
Rockbridge Bl
Rockingham A2
Russell D2

Scott D2

Shenandoah A2
Smyth D2

Southampton C3
Spotsylvania B3

Stafford

Surry

Sussex

Tazewell

Warren

A3
C3
C3
D2
A2

1692 6
1838 133
1778 29

1778
1787
1814
1772
1852
1749

46
27
28
21
30
27

1720-1 24

1664 12
1652 6
1753-4 13
1799-0048
1836 15

Census
Reports

Available Parent County County Seat

1810-80 Rappahannock (old) Warsaw

1840-80 Botetourt, Montgomery Salem

1810-80 Augusta, Botetourt Lexington

1810-80 Augusta Harrisonburg

1820-80 Washington Lebanon

1820-80 Lee, Russell, Washington Gate City

1810-80 Frederick (Dunmore 'til 1778) .. Woodstock

1840-80 Washington, Wythe Marion

1810-80 Isle of Wight, Nansemond Courtland

1810-80 Essex, King and Queen,

King William Spotsylvania

1810-80 Westmoreland Stafford

1810-80 James City Surry

1810-80 Surry Sussex

1820-80 Russell, Wythe Tazewell

1840-80 Frederick, Shenandoah Front Royal

County Map of Virginia

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Sea*:

Warrosquoyacke 1634 Original Shire

Warwick C4 1634 82 1810-80 Original Shire Denbigh

Washington D2 1776-7 53 1810-80 Fincastle, Montgomery Abingdon

Westmoreland B3 1653 10 1810-80 Northumberland Montross

Wise D2 1856 56 1860-80 Lee, Russell, Scott Wise

Wythe D3 1789-9023 1810-80 Montgomery (Pt. Grayson) .... Wytheville

York C4 1634 12 1810-80 Original Shire Yorktown

Missing U. S. Census Schedules for Virginia Counties

1. Records of counties for 1790 and 1800.

2. 1810 records missing: Alexandria, Grayson, Halifa.x, Henry, James City,
King Williams, Louisa, Mecklenburg, Nansemond, Northampton, Orange, Patrick,
Pittsylvania, Russell, and Tazewell.

3. For Alexandria records of 1800, 1820, 1830, and 1840, see Washington, D. C.

Census Records Available from Discontinued Virginia Counties

Barbour, 1850, 1860; Berkeley, 1810-1860; Boone, 1850, 1860; Braxton, 1840-1860;
Brooke, 1810-1860; Cabell, 1820-1860; Calhoun, 1 .60; Clay, 1860; Doddridge, 1850,
1860; Fayette, 1840-1860; Gilmer, 1850, 1860; Greenbrier, 1820-1860; Hampshire,
1820-1860; Hancock, 1850, 1860; Hardy, 1820-1860; Harrison, 1810-1860; Jackson,
1840-1860; Jefferson, 1810-1860; Kanawha, 1810-1860; Lewis, 1820-1860; Logan, 1830-
1860; McDowell, 1860; Marion, 1850, 1860; Marshall, 1840-1860; Mason, 1810-1860;
Mercer, 1840-1860; Monongalia, 1810-1860; Monroe, 1810-1860; Morgan, 1830-1860;
Nicholas, 1820-1860; Ohio, 1810-1860; Pendleton, 1810-1860; Pleasants, 1860;
Pocahontas, 1830-1860; Preston, 1820-1860; Putnam, 1850, 1860; Raleigh, 1850, 1860;
Randolph, 1810-1860; Ritchie, 1850, 1860; Roane, 1860; Taylor, 1850, 1860; Tucker,
1860; Tyler, 1820-1860; Upshur, 1860; Wayne, 1850, 1860; Webster, 1860; Wetzel,
1850, 1860; Wirt, 1850, 1860; Wood, 1810-1860; Wyoming, 1850, 1860.

Washington

Capital, Olympia

Washington became a Territory in
1853, after having been part of Oregon
Territory since 1848. Included in that
territorial domain was all of the pre-
sent Idaho. It was reduced to its present
dimensions in 1889 when Washington
became the forty-second state to enter
the Union.

During the years of its greatest growth,
Washington received thousands of form-
er residents of Wisconsin, Minnesota and
other western states. Many Canadian
farmers flocked there to secure good land
at a low price. Most of the newcomers at
that time were Canadians, Swedes, Nor-
wegians, English, Germans, Finns, Ital-
ians, Russians, Danes, and Scotch. The
Scandinavian immigrants felt especial-
ly at home since the country and the
climate reminded them of the place they
had previously inhabited.

Since 1907 the Statistics Section of

the State Department of Health, 1412
Smith Tower, Seattle, Wash., has had
control of all birth and death records
v/ithin the state. Records prior to that
time are on file in the offices of the
County Auditor of the respective coun-
ties. In the cities of Seattle, Spokane,
Bellingham and Tacoma, they may be
obtained at the city health departments.

Records of marriages are at the of-
fices of the respective County Auditors.
All land records are also filed in those
offices.

The County Clerks have charge of the
records of wills and all probate matters.

A partial list of Washington libraries:
Bellingham, (Whatcom), Bellingham
Public Library, 1414 Commercial St.;
Olympia, (Thurston), Regional Pub-
lic Library, 7th & Franklin Sts.; Wash-
ington State Library, Temple of Justice,
(genealogy, Washington newsapers) ; Se-

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attle, (King), King County Library, 906-
908 Fourth Ave.; Seattle Public Library,
4th Ave. & Madison St., (Northwest);
University of Washington Library, (Pa-
cific Northwest); Spokane, (Spokane),

Spokane Public Library, S. 10 Cedar St.,
(Pacific Northwest); Spokane County
Library, 1604 W. Riverside; Tacoma,
(Pierce), Tacoma Public Library, 1120
S. Tacoma Ave.; Washington State His-
torical Society.

Washington County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census]

Map

Date

Pop.

Census
Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Adams

1883

Asotin

1883

Benton

1855

1880

Chelan

1899

Clallam

1854

1860-80

Clark

1854

1860-80

Columbia

1855

1860-80

Cowlitz

1854

1860-80

Douglas

1883

Ferry

1899

Franklin

1883

Garfield

1881

Grant

"•883

Gray's Harbor F3

1885

Island

1854

1860-80

Jefferson

1854

1860-80

King

1855

733

1860-80

Kitsap

1871

1860-80

Kittitas

1883

Klickitat

1858

1860-80

Lewis

1855

1860-80

Lnicoln

1883

Mason

1864

1870-80

Okanogan

1883

Pacific

1854

1860-80

Pend Oreille Al

1891

Pierce

1853

276

1860-80

San Juan

1873

1870-80

Skagit

1883

Skamania

1854

1860-80

Snohomish

1853

112

1870-80

Spokane

1883

222

1860-80

Stevens

1854

1870-80

Thurston

1853

1860-80

Wahkiakum F4

1855

1860-80

Walla Walla B4

1854

1860-80

Whatcom

1857

1860-80

Whitman

1871

1880

Yakima

1865

136

1870-80

Parent County County Scat

Whitman Ritzville

Garfield Asotin

Original county Prosser

Kittitas, Okanogan Wenatchee

Original county Port Angeles

Original county Vancouver

Original county Dayton

Original county Kelso

Lincoln Waterville

Stevens Republic

Whitman Pasco

Columbia Pomeroy

Adams, Lincoln Ephrata

Original county Montesano

Original county Coupeville

Original county Port Townsend

Original county Seattle

Jefferson Port Orchard

Yakima Ellensburg

Original county Goldendale

Original county Chehalis

Spokane Davenport

Sawanish Shelton

Stevens Okanogan

Original county South Bend

Stevens Newport

Original county Tacoma

Whatcom Friday Harbor

Whatcom Mt. Vernon

Original county Stevenson

Original county Everett

Stevens Spokane

Original county Colville

Original county Olympia

Original county Cathlamet

Original county Walla Walla

Island Bellingham

Stevens Colfax

Indian and Unorg. Terr Yakima

IVest Virginia

Capital, Charleston

West Virginia came into existance as much in common. One of the main reas-

a direct result of the Civil War. That ons for this, no doubt, is the rugged Al-

section had always been part of Virginia, legheny mountain range separating the

even though the two sections never had two sections, which made traveling be-

WEST VIRGINIA

169

tvveen them rather difficult. When Vir-
ginia cast its lot with the Confederacy,
the settlers west of the Alleghenies be-
gan to murmur. The complaint event-
ually became so loud and demanding
tliat a separate government for the
western section was organized in 1861.
Two years later West Virginia was ad-
mitted into the Union as the twenty-
fifth state.

The physical features of the section
make West Virginia more accessible
from Pennsylvania than from Virginia,
At least, it was so in the early days.
In those days the Indian trails served
as roads and much of the travel was
in the direction from Pennsylvania to
West Virginia. Germans, Welsh, and
Irish came as early as 1670. English in
1671, various nationalities in 1715 and
1725. Some of the early settlers merely
crossed over from Maryland and made
their homes in the present Berkeley
and Jefferson counties..

Among different nationalities who have
come to West Virginia to man various
factories are Italians, Poles, Hungarians,
Austrians, English, Germans, Greeks,
Russians, and Czechs.

Most of the counties in West Virginia
were settled years before they were or-
ganized. Here are figures showing ihe
years the respective counties were set-
tled: Brooke 1744; Pendleton, 1747;
Randolph, 1753; Monroe, 1760; Monon-
galia, 1767; Greenbrier and Ohio, 1769;
Harrison, Marion, and Preston, 1772;
Kanawha, 1773; Mason and Tucker

1774; Cabell and Mercer, 1775; Han-
cock, 1776; Marshall, 1777; Barbour and
Wetzel, 1780; Jackson and Wirt, 1796;
Wood, 1797; Boone, 1798; Lincoln, 1799;
Putnam and Roan, 1800.

The Division of Vital Statistics, State
Health Department, State House, Charles-
ton, W. v., have the records of births
and deaths from 1917 to the present,
marriages since 1921. Earlier marriages
are recorded in the offices of the respec-
tive County Clerks.

The Virginia tax lists, published to
replace the fire destroyed 1790 Federal
Census, give a record of the taxpayers
in the West Virginia counties of those
days. A number of West Virginia coun-
ties have published the 1850 Census, con-
taining the names, ages and dates of
birth of all family members.

The County Clerk has charge of all
court and land records.

Books on West Virginia history and
genealogy:

Hale, J. P., Trans-Allegheny Pioneers,
Pub. 1886.

Myers, S., History o[ West Virginia, 2
Vols. Pub. 1915.

Sons of the Revolution in the State oi
West Virginia, published by West Virginia
Society, 1941.

West Virginia Libraries: Charleston,
(Kanawha), Kanawha County Library,
Lee & Dickinson Sts.; West Virginia
Dept. of Archives & History Library;
Huntington, (Cabell), Huntington Pub-
lic Library, 900 Fifth Ave.; Morgantown,
(Monongalia), West Virginia University
Library, (West Virginia).

Name

West Virginia County Histories

Population figures to nearest thousand. 1950 Census)

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Index Formed By M Available

Barbour

1843

1850-80

Berkeley

1772

1790-80

Boone

1847

1850-80

Braxton

1836

1840-80

Brooke

1796

1800-80

Cabell

1809

108

1810-80

Calhoun

1856

1860-80

Clay

1858

1860-80

Doddridge

1845

1850-80

Fayette

1831

1840-80

Gilmer

1845

1850-80

Grant

1866

1870-80

Greenbrier

1778

1790-80

Hampshire

1753

1790-80

Hancock

1748

1850-80

Hardy

1785

1790-80

Parent County County Seat

Harrison, Lewis, Randolph Philippi

Frederick Martinsburg

Kanawha, Cabell, Logan Madison

Kanawha, Lewis, Nicholas Sutton

Ohio Wellsburg

Kanawha Huntington

Gilmer Grantsville

Braxton, Nicholas Clay

Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie W. Union

Kanawha, Greenbrier, Logan .. Fayettevillo

Lewis, Kanawha Glenville

Hardy Petersburg

Montgomery Lewisburg

Frederick Romney

Brooke New Cumberland

Hampshire Moorefield

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Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Harrison

1784

1790-80

Jackson

1831

1840-80

Jefferson

1801

1810-80

Kanawha

1789

240

1790-80

Lewis

1816

1820-80

Lincoln

1867

1870-80

Logan

1824

1830-80

McDowell

1858

1860-80

Marion

1842

1850-80

Marshall

1836

1840-80

Mason

1804

1810-80

Mercer

1837

1840-80

Mineral

1866

1870-80

Mingo

1895

Monongalia

1776

1790-80

Monroe

1779

1790-80

Morgan

1820

1820-80

Nicholas

1818

1820-80

Ohio

1777

1790-80

Pendleton

1787

1790-80

Pleasants

1851

1860-80

Pocahontas

1821

1830-80

Preston

1818

1820-80

Putnam

1848

1850-80

Raleigh

1850

1860-80

Randolph

1787

1790-80

Ritchie

1843

1850-80

Roane

1856

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Monongalia Clarksburg

Kanawha, Mason, Wood Ripley

Berkeley Charles Town

Greenbrier, Montgomery Charleston

Harrison Weston

Boone, Cabell, Kanawha Hamlin

Kanawha, Cabell, Giles Logan

Tazewell Welch

Harrison, Monongalia Fairmont

Ohio Moundsville

Kanawha Point Pleasant

Giles, Tazewell Princeton

Hampshire Keyser

Logan Williamson

Dist. of W. Augusta Morgantown

Greenbrier Union

Berkeley, Hampshire -... Berkeley Springs

Greenbrier, Kanawha Summersville

Dist, of W. Augusta Wheeling

Augusta, Hardy Franklin

Ritchie, Tyler, Wood St. Marys

Pendleton, Randolph Marlinton

Monongalia Kingwood

Kanawha, Mason, Cabell Winfield

Fayette Beckley

Harrison Elkins

Harrison, Lewis Harrisville

Kanawha, Jackson, Gilmer Spencer

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Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Summers

1871

1880

Taylor

1844

1850-80

Tucker

1856

1860-80

Tyler

1814

1820-80

Upshur

1851

1860-80

Wayne

1842

1850-80

Webster

1860

1870-80

Wetzel

1846

1850-80

Wirt

1848

1850-80

Wood

1798

1800-80

Wyoming

1850

1860-80

Greenbrier, Monroe, Mercer Hinton

Barbour, Harrison, Marion Grafton

Randolph Parsons

Ohio Middlebourne

Randolph, Barbour, Lewis .... Buckhannon

Cabell Wayne

Braxton, Nicholas Webster Springs

Tyler New Martinsville

Wood, Jackson Elizabeth

Harrison Parkersburg

Logan Pineville

Wisconsin

Capital, Madison

Settlers established themselves in the
Wisconsin area as early as 1832. In 1840,
according to the first U. S. Census tak-
en, there were 130,945. The real influx
of people came about 1848 when tens
of thousands of people, mainly from the
northern European countries came into
the territory. The 1850 Census register-
ed 305,391, and the 1860 Census 775.881.

By far the largest number of these
immigrants were Germans.

About 1840 nearly all of the counties
facing Lake Michigan had received
thousands of settlers. The Rock River
Valley in Rock County also had many
settlers at that time and earlier.

Wisconsin became a Territory in its
own name in 1836. Previously it had
been part of several Territories, includ-
ing Indiana from 1800 to 1809; Illinois,
1809, to 1818; Michigan, 1818 to 1836.
In 1848 it became the thirtieth state in
the Union.

The leading nationalities represented
in Wisconsin, in their numerical order
are German (nearly three to one), Pol-
ish, Norwegian, Russian, Austrian, Swed-
ish, Czech, Italian, Danish, Hungarian,
English, Finnish, Greek, Irish and French.

The Bureau of Vital Statistics, Madi-
son 2, Wisconsin, has birth and death
records from 1860 to date.

Marriage Bans — address church where

recorded.

Wills, deeds, land grants, tax payers
lists — all these records are available in
the various county court houses. Address
inquiries to the County Clerk.,

War Service Records — Adjutant Gen-
eral's Office, State Capital, Madison.

Cemetery Records — A few have been
transferred to the various county clerks,
but the practice is not at all general.
Contact the local sexton.

Guardianship and Orphan Court Pro-
ceedings are held by the issuing court
and by the Public Welfare Department,
State Capital.

The Library of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin includes some
750,000 volumes, nearly one fifth of
which deals with genealogy and local
history. Books and pamphlets dealing
with every state in the union and col-
lective and individual American gen-
ealogies are included. Many church his-
tories and records supplement those vol-
umes generally classified as genealog-
ical.

Wisconsin Libraries: Eau Claire, (Eau
Claire), Eau Claire Public Library, 217 S.
Farwell, (Wisconsin, local history) :
Kenosha, (Kenosha), Gilbert M. Sim-
mons Public Library, 711 59th PI.; La
Crosse, (La Crosse), La Crosse County
Public Library.

Wisconsin County Histories

Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Name

Adams
Asland
Barron

Map

Date Pop.

Censu."-
Report

Index Formed By M Available

D3 1856 8 1850-80

A2 1856 19 1860-80

Bl 1868 35 1870-80

Parent County County Seat

Portage Friendship

Unorganized Territory Ashland

Dallas, Polk Barron

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THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Name

Map
Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Census

Reports

Available

Bayfield

1866

1870-80

Brown

1818

1840-80

Buffalo

1853

1860-80

Burnett

1856

1860-80

Calumet

1836

1840-80

Chippewa

1845

1850-80

Clark

1853

1860-80

Columbia

1846

1850-80

Crawford

1818

1840-80

Dane

1838

169

1840-80

Dodge

1836

1840-80

Door

1851

1860-80

Douglas

1856

1860-80

Dunn

1856

1860-80

Eau Claire

1856

1860-80

Florence

1882

Fond du Lac D3

1836

1840-80

Forest

1885

Grant

1836

1840-80

Green

1836

1840-80

Green Lake

1859

1860-80

Iowa

1829

1840-80

Iron

1893

Jackson

1853

1860-80

Jefferson

1853

1840-80

Juneau

1856

1860-80

Kenosha

1850

1850-80

Kewaunee

1852

1860-80

La Crosse

1851

1860-80

Lafayette

1846

1850-80

Langlade

1880

Lincoln

1866

1870-80

Manitowoc

1836

1840-80

Marathon

1851

1850-80

Marinette

1879

Marquette

1818

1840-80

Milwaukee

1834

871

1840-80

Monroe

1856

1860-80

Oconto

1851

1860-80

Oneida

1885

Outagamie

1851

1860-80

Ozaukee

1853

1860-80

Pepin

1851

1860-80

Pierce

1853

1860-80

Polk

1853

1860-80

Portage

1836

1840-80

Price

1878

Racine

1836

110

1840-80

Richland

1842

1850-80

Rock

1836

1840-80

Rusk

1902

St. Croix

1838

1840-80

Sauk

1838

1840-80

Sawyer

1883

Shawano

1856

1860-80

Parent County County Seat

Ashland Washburn

Territorial county Green Bay

Trempeleau Alma

Polk Grantsburg

Territorial county Chilton

Crawford Chippewa Falls

Marathon Neillsville

Portage Portage

Territorial county Prairie du Chien

Territorial county Madison

Territorial county Juneau

Brown Sturgeon Bay

Unorganized Territory Superior

Chippewa Menomonie

Clark Eau Claire

Marinette, Oconto Florence

Territorial county Fond du Lac

Langlade, Oconto Crandon

Territorial county Lancaster

Territorial county Monroe

Marquette District Green Lake

Territorial county Dodgeville

Ashland, Oneida Hurley

LaCrosse Black River Falls

Dodge, Waukesha Jefferson

Adams Mauston

Racine Kenosha

Manitiwoc Kewaunee

Unorganized Territory La Crosse

Iowa Darlington

Oconto Antigo

Marathon Merrill

Territorial county ... -. Manitowoc

Portage Wausau

Oconto Marinette

Marquette District Montello

Territorial county Milwaukee

Unorganized Territory Sparta

Unorganized Territory Oconto

Lincoln Rhinelander

Brown Appleton

Milwaukee Port Washington

Chippewa Durand

St. Croix Ellsworth

St. Croix Balsam Lake

Territorial county Stevens Point

Chippewa, Lincoln Phillips

Territorial county Racine

Iowa Richland Center

Territorial county Janesville

Chippewa Ladysmith

Territorial county Hudson

Territorial county Baraboo

Ashland, Chippewa Hayward

Oconto Shawano

WISCONSIN

173

Census

Map
Name Index

Date
Formed

Pop.
By M

Reports

Available

Sheboygan D4

1836

1840-80

Taylor B2

1875

Trempealeau C2

1851

1860-80

Vernon D2

1863

1870-80

Vilas B3

1898

Walworth E2

1836

1840-80

Washburn Bl

1883

Washington E4

1836

1840-80

Parent County County Seat

Territorial county Sheboygan

Clark, Lincoln Medford

Chippewa Whitehall

Richland, Crawford Viroqua

Oneida Eagle River

Territorial county Elkhorn

Burnett Shell Lake

Territorial county West Bend

County Map of Wisconsin

DOUGLAS

BURNETT

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174 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Census
Map Date Pop. Reports

Name Index Formed By M Available Parent County County Sent

Waukesha E4 1840 86 1850-80 Milwaukee Waukesha

Waupaca C3 1851 35 1860-80 Waupaca

Waushara D3 1851 14 1860-80 Marquette Wautoma

Winnebago D3 1838 91 1840-80 Territorial county Oshkosh

Wood C2 1856 51 1860-80 Portage Wisconsin Rapids

Census Notes — Bad Axe, 1860 schedule available; Brown, 1820 and 1830, see
Michigan; Crawford, 1820 and 1830 see Michigan; Dallas ( discontinued) 1860
available; Iowa 1830 see Michigan.

Wyoming

Capital, Cheyenne

Only one state has a smaller popula-
tion than Wyoming, and only seven have
a larger area.

When it was organized as a Territory
in 1868 it had only six or seven thous-
and white inhabitants. The middle west
and the southern states provided most
of the settlers who came into the state
to take advantage of the opportunity
to get into the cattle business. Hundreds
of thousands of cattle roamed the west-
ern hills unherded. The eastern sec-
tion had good agricultural soil .

In 1940 the foreign born population of
Wyoming ranked in this order in num-
bers: England, Germany, Sweden, Russia,
Italy, Austria, Greece, Denmark, Nor-
way, Ireland, Poland, Finland, Czechoslo-
vakia, France and Hungary.

Wyoming became a state, the forty-
fourth, in 1890.

In 1869 Wyoming became the first sec-
tion of the United States to grant its
women the right to vote in all elections.

The Wyoming State Library in Chey-
enne has a genealogical section.

Birth and death records from 1909 to
the present, and marriage records from
May 1, 1941 are at the office of the
Division of Vital Statistics, Cheyenne,
Wyoming.

The County Clerk of each county is
custodian of the birth and death re-
cords from the beginning of the county
until 1909, the marriage records from
the beginning of the county until May
1, 1941, the wills, probate matters, and
all land records.

Wyoming County Histories

(Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census)

Census

Map

Date

Pop.

Reports

Name

Index

Formed

By M

Available

Albany

1868

1870-80

Big Horn

1890

Campbell

1911

Carbon

1868

1870-80

Converse

1888

Crook

1878

1880

Fremont

1885

Goshen

1911

Hot Springs D2

1911

Johnson

1875

Laramie

1868

1870-80

Lincoln

1911

Natrona

1888

Niobrara

1911

Park

1909

Platte

1911

Sheridan

1888

Sublette

1921

Parent County County Seat

Original county Laramie

Fremont, John, Sheridan Basin

Johnson, Converse Gillette

Original county Rawlins

Laramie, Albany Douglas

Formerly Pease Co Sundance

Sweetwater Lander

Platte, Laramie Torrington

Fremont Thermopolis

Pease Buffalo

Original county Cheyenne

Uinta Kemmerer

Carbon Casper

Converse Lusk

Albany, Big Horn Cody

Johnson Wheatland

Johnson Sheridan

Fremont Pinedale

WYOMING

175

Map
Name Index

Sweetwater D4
Teton E2

Uinta E4

Washakie C2

Date Pop.
Formed By M

1868 22

1921 3

1868 7

1911 7

Census
Reports
Available

1870-80

Wpston

A2 1911

Parent County County Seat

Original county Green River

Lincoln Jackson

Original county Evanston

Big Horn, Fremont, Crook Worland

Crook Newcastle

Province

Belgium

Provinces of Belgium

Map Index

Capital

Antwerpen (Antwerp)

♦Bruxelles (Brussels)

Mons (Bergen)

Li^ge (Luik)

Hasselt

Aarlon (Arlon)

Namur (Namen)

Gent (Gand or Ghent)

Brugge (Bruges)

Antwerpen (Antwerp)

Brabrant

Hainaut

Li^ge

Limbourg (Limburg)

Luxembourg

Namur

Oost Vlaanderen (East Flanders)

West Vlaanderen (West Flanders

The history of Belgium dates from 1831 when the South Netherlands parted
from Holland and became an independent kingdom.

S«e Map Pagre 196

Canada

By virtue of discovery and settlement
France claimed possession of Canada as
early as 1532. By 1642 Acadia, Quebec,
and Montreal had been founded. Follow-
ing the French and Indian Wars ex-
tending over a seventy-year period, the
Treaty of Paris transferred Canada
to British rule in 1763.

After Canada came under British con-
trol, many of the early American col-
onists, unwilling to sever their British
citizenship riehts. migrated to Canada
where they established their homes. The
French, who had come there earlier,
remained in Canada, later became Can-
adian citizens, but retained their French
language.

Canada is divided into ten provinces.
Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba,
New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island,
Quebec, and Saskatchewan; and two
territories, Yukon, created in 1898, and
Northwest Territories, which Canada
secured in 1870 from Britain and the
Hudson's Bay Company.

Ottawa, located in the province of
Ontario on the south side of the Ottawa
River, is the Dominion Capital.

A wealth of genealogical and his-
torical records is on file at the Public
Archives in Ottawa, including a museum,
a Library with books and manuscripts
dating back to the earliest days. Most
of the church records are in the prov-

inces. Researchers should communicate
with the Archivists, the Dominion and
the Provincial, to ascertain where infor-
mation may be obtained. Data regard-
ing immigration and naturalization
papers may be secured from the De-
partment of Mines and Resources, Cit-
izenship Registration Branch, Ottawa,
Canada. ,

To have the census of Canada search-
ed, write to the Public Archives of
Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Census returns
since 1871 are not open to the public.
The officers in charge give the following
explanation:

"Information available from the cens-
us returns are: the family name, the
age, the country of birth, the religion,
the trade or profession, the kind of
house and the property. The census of
1831 and 1842 give the name of the
head of the family only. That of 1851,
1861, and 1871 give the names of the
father, mother, and the children of
each family. Each census is taken by
the province, divided into counties, which
are subdivided into townships. In order
to obtain information from any census
return, the township of the place of
residence must be given."

If you do not know the township,
ask the Archives for the name of a
genealogist.

Alberta (D-3)

Edmonton is the provincial capital,

176

CANADA 177

with a population of 113,116. Other when it was cut out of the Northwestern

leading cities are Calgary, 100,044; Leth- Territories.

bridge, 16,522; Medicine Hat, 12,859. The Manitoba counties are Boniface,

Taken from the Northwest Territories Brandon, Dauphin, Lisgar, MacDonald,

in 1905, Alberta was made a province. Marquett, Neepawa, Nelson, which con-

The northern half still remains a wild- stitut«s the northern two-thirds of the

erness. The province is divided into the provincial area, Portage La Prairie,

following counties, Acadia Athabasca, Provencher, Souris, Springfield, and

Battle River, Bow River, Calgary East, Winnipeg.

Calgary West, Camrose, Edmon, Ed- The office of the Registrar General,

monton, Lethbridge, Mac Leod, Medicine Vital Statistics Division, Department of

Hat, Peace River, Red Deer, Vegerville, Health and Public Welfare, 331 Legis-

and Westaski. lative Bldg., Winnipeg, Canada has vital

Vital statistics may be secured by statistics from 1874, a few scattered per-

inquiring from the Deputy Registrar haps earlier. For wills write the Surro-

General, Department of Public Health, gate Court in the respective district.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Wills are Some are available from 1891. Land

on file at the Court House, Edmonton, transfers and deeds must also be checked

A.lta, Canada. Deeds are at the Land in the district offices of the Registrar

Titles Office in the same city. of Land Titles.

British Columbia (E-3) is the wester- New Brunswick (A-5) is the eighth lar-

most province in Canada. gest province in land area and in popu-

Its counties are Cariboo, Comox-Al- lation. There are a little more than half

berni, East Kootenay, Frazer Valley, a million people in the province.

Nanalmo, Skeena, Vancouver, North In the days of the American Revolu-

West Kootenay, and Yale. tionary War, English Loyalists moved

The capital of the province is Victoria, from the colonies into New Brunswick,

on the south-east tip of Vancouver Others came over from Yorkshire, Eng-

Island. Victoria has a population of land. More recently French Canadians

50,744. Other leading cities in the prov- moved south into New Brunswick,

ince are Vancouver, 340,272, and New The largest cities are St. John, 51,741,

Westminister, 28,390. on the south coast; Moncton, in the

British Columbia is the third largest south - central part of Westmoreland

province both in area and in population, county, 22,763; Fredericton, the prov-

More than 1,165,000 people live in the incial capital, in York county, on the

province. It was organized in 1858. The St. John River, 10,062.

predominating nationalities in the prov- There are fifteen counties in the

ince are British (almost three-fourths province; Albert, Carleton, Charlotte,

of entire population); Scandinavian, Gloucester, Kent, Kings, Madawaska,

German, French, Russian, Italian, and Northumberland, Queens, Restigouche,

Dutch. St. John, Sunbury, Victoria, Westmor-

For vital statistics since 1874, and land and York,
incomplete records since 1836, write From 1888 until 1920 all birth, marri-
Division of Vital Statistics, Parliament age, and death records have been main-
Bldgs., Victoria, B. C. For wills since tained by the County Registrars, since
1858 contact Registrar of Supreme Court, then at the office of the Registrar
Victoria, B.C. For Land records and deeds General, Department of Health and
since 1861 write Land Registry Office, Social Service, Fredericton, N. B. Fred-
Victoria, B. C. ericton is the provincial capital. Records

Manitoba (C-3) is the sixth province in of wills are with the Registrar of

area and in population. Probates of each county. All land titles

Two-thirds of the people of Manitoba and real estate transfers are at the

are Protestants, belonging to the United office of the Registrar of Deeds of the

Canadian, the Episcopalian, the Luth- respective counties.

eran, the Presbyterian, and the Mennon- Newfoundland (A-2) by popular vote,

ite Church. The other third is Catholic, became a province of Canada in 1949.

Winnipeg is the provincial capital, St. John's the capital, with a popula-

and about the only large city in the tion of 52,000, is the only large city

province. It has a population of 350,924, in the province. About sixteen other

which is very little less than one half cities have a population between one

of the entire population of the province, and six thousand, all others less than

The population is mainly English, Scot- a thousand.

tish, German, Swiss, Polish, and Ukran- The island has been populated since

ian. The province was created in 1870 1750. The English and the French

178 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

people predominate. The Roman Catholic Lincoln, St, Catharines; Manitoulin,
church is the largest numerically, Gore Bay; Middlesex, London; Muskoka,
closely followed by the Episcopalian. The Bracebridge; Nipissing, North Bay;
United Canadian Church claims about Norfolk, Simcoe; Northumberland, Co-
twenty-five per cent of the population, bourg; Ontario, Whitby; Oxford, Wood-
Other Protestant denominations have stock; Parry Sound, Parry Sound; Peel,

smaller memberships. k'^^'^Pu'^'U . ^f *^' ^^^^^^^ford; Peter-

^, .^ , . . . ^^^^ borough, Peterborough; Prescott, L'Orig-

The vital statistics since 1892 are ,,^1; Prince Edward, Picton; Rainy

under the care of the Vital Statistics ^^^^^^ ^^ Francis; Renfrew, Pembroke;

Division of the Departnient of Health, R^gsell; Simcoe, Barrie; Stormont,

St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada The Cornwall; Sudbury, Sudbury; Thunder

Registrar of the Supreme Court, St ^ p^^^ Arthur; Timiskaming, Haile-

John s, Newfoundland IS the custodian of ^ . Victoria, Lindasay; Waterloo,

wills. The Registry of Deeds and Com- Kitchener; Welland, Welland; Welling-

panies,St.Johns Newfoundland, Canada, ^^^ ^uelph; Wentworth, Hamilton;

IS in charge of all land title records York Toronto

Nova Scotia (A-3) is the next to the ^mong the ' cities of Ontario are

smallest in area of the Canadian prov- Toronto, the capital of the province,

inces and the seventh in population. It 670,945; Hamilton. 207,544; Ottawa, the

has more than 640,000 people. Its south- Dominion capital, 198,773; Windsor, 119,-

ern tip is about 250 miles north-north- ^^q. London 94 984

east from Boston. It changed from 3^^^^, marriage,' and death records

French to British rule about 1750. ^^^^^ -(ggg ^^^y ^e obtained from the

A little more than half of the pop- Registrar General, Parliament Bldgs.,

ulation IS English and Scottish. There Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Copies of wills

are still some French, also German, ^^^y be secured from the county or

Swiss, Dutch and Irish. district Registrar of the Surrogate

Halifax IS the capital. It has a court. Information on deeds and land

population of about 85,000, with Sydney ^j^les may be had from the county

coming next with about 31,000. offj^e of the Registrar of Deeds.

Its eighteen counties are: Annapolis, p^i^ce Edward Island, (A-3) one of

Antigonish, Cape Breton, Colchester, ^^e most productive islands and prov-

Cumberland, Digby, Guysborough, Hali- i^ces in Canada, is situated between the

fax, Hants, Inverness, Kings, Lunen- culf of St. Lawrence and the Northum-

burg, Pictou, Queens, Richmond, She!- merland Strait. French colonies were

burne, Victoria, and Yarmouth. established as early as 1713. The island

Vital statistics since 1864 are available ^as made a British colony in 1758. Soon

at the office of the Deputy Registrar after, colonists from Scotland came to

General, Department of Public Health, the island. English and Irish settlers

Halifax, N. S., Canada. The Registrar followed. There are about 15,000 descen-

of Probates, in each probate district ^j^nts of the early Acadians.

has the records of the wills. The Registry The island is divided into three

of Deeds in each probate district is districts or counties. The eastern section

custodian of deeds and land entries. or county is Kings, with Georgetown

Ontario (C-4) is the second largest as the countv seat; the central section

province in land area and the first in or county is Queens, with Charlottetown,

population. It has more than four and a the provincial capital also serving as

half million people living within its county seat; the West section or county

boundaries. Prince, with Summerside as the county

Its counties and county seats are g^at. Charlottetown is the largest city

as follows: Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie; on the island with a population of

Brant, Brantford; Bruce, Walkerton; i5,689; Summerside is the next largest

Carleton, Ottawa; Cochrane, Cochrane; with 6,522, and Souris, 1,176.

Dufferin, Orangeville; Dundas, Morris- Vital Statistics records since 1906 are

burg; Durham; Elgin, St. Thomas; available at the office of the Director

Essex, Windsor; Frontenac, Kingston; of Vital Statistics, Department of Health

Glengarry; Grenville; Gray, Owen and Welfare, Charlottetown, P. E. I.,

Sound; Haldimand, Cayuga; Haliburton, Canada. Wills are registered at the

Minden; Halton, Milton West; Hastings, office of the Judge of Probate in the

Belleville; Huron, Goderich; Kenora, same city. Deeds are recorded with the

Kenora; Kent, Chatham; Lambton, Registrar of Deeds for King and Queen

Sarnia; Lanark, Perth; Leeds, Brock- counties, Charlotteville, P. E. I., Canada,

ville; Lennox and Addington, Napanee; and the Registrar of Deeds for Prince

CANADA

179

County, Summerside, P. E. I., Canada. the early sixteen hundreds, and their

Quebec, (B-3) the largest province in descendants are now in the majority

area and the second largest in population, in the province. More than three-fourths

has more than four milion inhabitants, of the population are French and

French settlers came to Quebec in Catholic.

180 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

The province has 76 counties, but none filed in the Regina Land Titles Office,

of the records in which the genealogical but applicant must describe land and

researcher is interested are in any of the ^%1^^^ P^?P^" Registration District

The twenty-one counties of Saskatche-

county offices. ^an are Assiniboia, Humboldt, Kinders-

The most prominent cities are Mont- ley, Last Mountain, Long Lake, Mac-
real (Greater) 1,370,044; Quebec, 161, Kenzie, Maple Creek, Melfort, Melville,
439; Trois-Rivieres (Three Rivers), Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Prince
45,708 Albert, Qu Appelle, Regina, Rosetown,

Vital statistics for Quebec Catholics Saskatoon, South Battleford, Swift

began about 1622; for Protestants about Current, Weyburn,, Willow Bunch, and

1887. The Director of the Provincial /orkton.

Bureau of Health, Quebec, Que., Canada, Among books dealing with the history

has statistics from 1907. The twenty and genealogy of Canada are the following:

District Notaries have charge of wills Grant. W. L.. M. A., History of Canada.

and land transfer records. Authorized by the Minister of Education

Saskatchewan's (D-3) capital is Regina, f^, Ontario. The Ryerson press. Toronto,

located in the south-eastern section of |g22

the province. It is fifth among the ^^ Haughlin, Sara B.. Canadian Edu^

Canadian provinces in area and popula- ^^^^^ ^j^^ j^^ ^^ p^^^ ^ ^^20.

tion, and has more than 800,000 people ^. u a, . j i. . t

living mostly in the southern half of Gives much on the geography and history of

the province. (-anada. also many biographies of promi-

Its largest cities are Regina, 69,928; "^^ "^^"r- i,k ;, ^ , j r

Saskatoon, 52,732; Moose Jaw, 24,336. ^ ^°^f ' ^eo. Maclean, A Cyclopedia o/

Regina is about 700 miles northwest of Car^adian Biography Ros^ Publishing Co.,

Minneapolis via Winnipeg. Toronto. 1888. A collection of persons dis-

The Director of Vital Statistics, tinguished in professional and political life;
Dept. of Public Health, Provincial leaders in commerce and industry of Canada
Health Bldg., Regina, Sa'sk., Canada, ^"^ successful pioneers.
has charge of the vital statistics of Libraries and genealogical societies in-
the province. A few records go back elude: Hamilton Public Library, Ham-
to 1888, but most of them from 1905. '^^^^^^ Ont.; Public Library and Art
A record of all grants made in wills Museum, Elsie Perrin Williams Mem.
is filed with the Registrar of Surrogate Bldg., London, Ont.; Institute Genea-
Courts, Court House, Regina, Sask., logique Drouin, 4148 St. Denis Street,
Canada. The wills are filed in the office Montreal, Quebec; Vancouver Dist. LDS
of the clerk of the Surrogate Court of Gen. Society, 350 East 55th Ave., Van-
the respective counties. Land Titles are couver 15, B. C.

Denmark

Denmark's (Danmark) principal is- Falster constitute the amt of Maribo.

lands and peninsula: 1. Jutland (Jy- Bornholm Island with Ronne as the ad-

lland); 2. Fyn Island; 3. Zealand (Sja- ministrative center is Bornholm Amt.

Hand); 4. Falster and Lolland (Laa- The Faeroe (Faeroeren) Islands with

land) Islands; 5. Bornholm Island. Thorshavn as its administrative center

Jutland (Jylland) Peninsula has the (750 miles west of Norway and 400 miles

following amter (counties); Aabenraa, ncrth of Scotland) have at times been

Aalborg, Aarhus, Haderslev, Hjoring, considered as the Faeroe Amt.

Randers, Ribe, Ringkobing (Ringkjob- The amter of Denmark in most cases

ing), Sonderborg (Skanderborg), This- arr named after the cities which are

ted. Tender, Vejle, and Viborg. their administrative centers. In fact all

Fyn Island has two amter — Odense follow this pattern except Fredriksborg,

Amt (County) and Svendborg Amt. which has Hillerbd as its administrative

Zealand (Sjalland) Island is divided center, and Bornholm and Faeroe (men-

as follows: Copenhagen (Kobenhavn), tioned above).

Fredriksborg, Holbak, Prasto and Soro All census records, military levying rolls,

amter. civil and government records are ga-

The islands of Lolland (Laaland) and thered into one great central archive

DENMARK 181

at Copenhagen. This is the "Rigsar- cord for the genealogist in Denmark,
kivet" or Royal Archive. All church The number of Danes not belonging
records prior to 1890 are gathered into to the state church prior to 1890 is prac-
the three permanent provincial archives tically negligible, thus making this re-
located at Copenhagen, Odense, Viborg ord most valuable for marriages and
and the one temporary provincial ar- deaths as well.

chive at Aabenraa. These archives are The first church record preserved

the most important for genealogical re- was made by a priest, Jost Poulsen, in

search in Denmark, Of the two kinds Nakskov for the years 1572-90. Another

of archives the provincial archive is the one was kept by a priest of the same

more important to researchers for it place from 1618-1629. The oldest un-

is here that the vital statistics are interrupted church record in Denmark

kept for practically everything prior to is that of Holmen's Church in Copen-

1890. hagen which began In 1617. Several

There are other archives and libraries churches began keeping parish records
that furnish valuable information for in 1641, and in 1645 all parishes were
the genealogist. The Royal Library will asked by the government to keep re-
probably stand first in this respect, cords of all births, marriages, deaths,
Here will be found all printed records in etc. It was understood at this time that
Denmark and also a few manuscript it became the duty of the parish priest
records. This will, of course, save a to keep such a record and that this re-
researcher a great deal of time, if he cord belonged to the parish and not to
should find his records already printed the priest. Further enforcement was
then all he needs to do is check-up on enacted in 1683 and 1685, such that be-
the connections. Other archives worthy fore the end of the seventeenth century,
of mention are the military archive at it was definite and practiced by prac-
Copenhagen, the city and county ar- tically all of the priests,
chives and libraries, the Danish-Amer- The birth records generally consists
ican Archives at Aalborg which may ne of two separate lists: the male and the
of great worth to Danish-Americans female. The information obtainable is
in establishing their connections with the same for both, and consists of: the
Denmark; also there are the industrial name of the child, date of birth, date
archives, university archives, etc. of christening, name of the parents and

In all of these archives thus men- their occupation, names of the god-

tioned all records that are obtainable mother and the sponsors and possibly

for the public are from 1890 and back, some remarks.

None are obtainable after that date The confirmation record is also divid-
except by special permission or rights ed into male and female lists. Confirm-
but for those records that are there ation generally takes place between
is no charge for the use of them in the fourteen and fifteen years of age. The
reading-rooms of the archives. information obtainable from these re-

CHURCH RECORDS. In Denmark cords is: name of child, name of par-
most people belong to the same church, ents, date of confirmation, usually the
the state or Lutheran church. It used date of either birth or chistening, and
to be required of all to belong to this character testimonials from the school,
church and to support it by means of a The marriage record or list gives the
civil tax, but that is a thing of the past name of the bridegroom and the bride;
now, as far as it being a requirement of generally their age or birthdate and the
every person regardless of desire or parish they came from, if native of an-
personal creed. However, this church other parish (marriage is performed in
still remains the registrar of certain the parish which the bride come from),
vital statistics. Thus, regardless of sometimes the names of the fathers are
what church you may belong to, all given, the names of the sponsors who
births must be registered with the priest are generally fathers or near, relatives
of the state church of that particular (male) are always g ven, date of mar-
parish in which you may be residing, riage and possible remarks and banns.
All other vital statistics such as mar- The removal record or record of in-
riages, deaths, etc., are either register- coming and outgoing members from the
ed here or with the local civil author- parish, is a result of the system of
ities. For this reason the state church character testimonial employed at one
records become the most valuable re- time in Denmark.

182

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

The death record shows the name of of the deceased, or if a child the posi-
the person deceased, possibly the name tion or occupation of the father or
of the husband or wife or in the case mother. The age also is given,
of a child the name of the father or PROBATE RECORDS. Probate re-
even both the parents, date of death, cords have been in existence since the
date of burial, position or occupation early part of the sixteenth century in

DENMARK 183

Denmark. In 1874 the old system was an extra tax was required of the

done away with entirely. Most of the people. In most cases it just hit the

earliest records have been lost or burnt, land-owners and other men with rath-^r

however, records from 1574 to 1637 are large capitals or assets. But there

at the archive. These are mostly for were times when it was required from

cities since this system began much each family. In such cases a list was

earlier there. After this period there made out of all the heads of families

are many more in existence, and as which were to be taxed,

the end of the sevententh century is Royal Library

approached are found throughout the Genealogical research is greatly aided

entire land. through the sources found in the Royal

The Royal Archive Library. Here will be found all the

The most important records found printed records, history, biography, etc.

at this archive are the census records in Denmark. Various types of direc-

and the military levying rolls. Other tories and short biographical sketches

records such as tax lists, customs re- of important or more or less outstand-

cords, commercial records, postal re- ing men of Denmark are found here,

cords, pension records and other govern- Very valuable family histories are also

mental records are also available. located here which many times can save

CENSUS RECORDS. The first com- a researcher a great deal of time when

plete census record which has not been his pedigree connects up with one of

destroyed is that taken in 1787. Since these.

that date census records have been tak- Military Archives

en during the following years: 1801. The military archives at Copenhagen

1834, 1840, 1845, 1850, 1855, 1860, 1870, will be of great help to any one search-

1880, 1890, 1901 and thereafter period- ing names on a military line. Accurate

ically. Of these all up to and includ- records are kept of all officers and sub-

ing 1890 census are available to the officers in the nation's fighting force,

public for their perusal and study at the Data generally given is mostly that

reading room at the Royal Archive. concerning the person's military career.

These censuses are listed according "Raadstuearkiver" — City Archives

to parishes, "herreds," and "Amter." The city archive has several valuable

The last two mentioned divisions are records, but that which is of greatest

comparable to county and state within value to the genealogist is the record

the United States. of marriage permits issued.

MILITARY LEVYING ROLLS. Be- Other Records

ginning with 1789 all males born out- Other records of value are wills,

side of the cities in Denmark were deeds, divorces, civil marriages, death

entered upon levying rolls so that they registrations at 'Tinghuset," etc. All

could be used for military training records pertaining to wills, deeds and

when they reached a certain age. It divorces in recent years are located at

was required of each male individual to the head office of the Judicial District

ever have his whereabouts known. Thus (Domekontoret) or at least information

if he moved he had to report at his concerning their whereabouts could be

new place of residence, where he came given here. Civil marriages will be with

from and the one in charge of the the community government records as

records for the place of his original well as with the civil confirmations,

residence was notified in order that his Deaths are registered at "Tinghuset,"

name could be followed through these so information concerning deaths can

records at any time. also be located here as well as from

EXTRA TAX LISTS. Whenever some the church records,

extraordinary situation arose in the See Scandinavia

country wherein more money was need- (Much of above extracted from an arti-

ed than that which could be supplied cle on Danish research by Henry E.

by the government by ordinary means, Christensen.)

England

Write Letters First papers, write to old residents, to post-

You can write letters to find relatives masters, to city and county officials, to

who have genealogy, advertise in news- dealers in genealogical books, to names

184 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

from directories, just the same in Eng- a township. A town may have several
land as in America. If you expect to churches. To be a city in England there
send a number of letters, write to some must be a cathedral,
postmaster and send a money order for The Census of England and Wales
some 2y2d. (2V2 penny) stamps. You can For nearly a hundred and fifty years
then send a self-addressed, stamped en- the census has been taken each ten
velope with your letter to help get a re- years. The only ones available for gen-
ply. Or for 13 cents you can buy from ealogical research are those of 1841 and
your postmaster a coupon which can be 1851.

exchanged in England or any other coun- Prior to that time census enumerators

try for a stamp to pay postage on the listed only the number of people living

answer to your letter. at a given address. The census of 1841

Searching Parish Registers tells names of family members, the ages

Parish registers, which are the records of the nearest five years but does not tell

of the Church of England, are valuable the exact place of birth. The census of

sources of genealogical information. 1851 gives the names of each member

They do not contain the records of of the family, their relationship to the

Methodists, Quakers, etc. If your an- head of the family, the occupation of

cestors belonged to those religions the each, the age and the parish where born,

records of their churches must be search- It is necessary that the approximate

ed for the desired information. address be known before a search can

A few parish registers go back as begin,
far as 1538, but most of them commence Information from the 1861 qensus

at a later date. Between 1538 and 1 July and later enumerations are not open to

1837 they are the principle sources of the public or their agents. They contain

records of births, deaths and marriages practically the same information as the

of every class of people in England. 1851 census. Upon written application the

Burke's Key to the Ancient Parish Reg- Register General may make a search

isters of England and Wales by Arthur for a particular family but it is necessary

M. Burke, London 1908, lists alphabetical- to give him the precise address, the

ly the names of the parishes in England surname of the person or persons resid-

and Wales, giving also the name of the ing there and also a signed statement

county and the dates of registration. It that the information from the census

is not unusual to find gaps in the records will not be used for litigation.
— periods when no registrations were The following is the address of the

made or when they have been lost, office in charge of the census, Public

Check each register to see if it covers Record Office, Chancery Lane, W. C. 2,

completely the period you are interested London, England. They may suggest a

in. professional genealogist if you enclose

If you know the birthplace of your an- an international reply coupon which

cestor you can often find his parents you may buy for 13 cents at your post

and the date of his birth and marriage office.

by searching the parish registers. The England Vital Statistics
record of births or christenings gives Previous to 1837 the task of keeping
only the given name of the mother but a record of vital statistics of England
by searching the marriage record her and Wales was left almost entirely to
surname can often be found. The burial the churches. Beginning on the first
record also gives information that is day of July, 1837, the government has
valuable. There are many thousands of kept a record of births, deaths and mar-
parish registers, only a few of which riages. These records have been gather-
have been printed. ed in one office and indexed so that

If it is necessary to have the original anyone born in England or Wales, know-
record searched you must engage an Eng- ing the date of his birth, can for a small
lish genealogist to do it. It used to be fee obtain a birth certificate, etc. To
that the Rector or the Vicar in the par- obtain information from this record
ticular English church where the search write to the Register of Births, Marri-
is to be made would do it, but not any ages and Death, Somerset House, Lon-
more. The practice was ended on April 7, don, England. The fee for such service
1952. is five shillings one penny, (a shilling is

Parishes may be divided into town- about 15c). Thus if we know the full

ships. A small parish may not have name of a person and his exact age

ENGLAND

185

but do not know his parents or birth-
place, the birth certificate will give this
information.

may find in your public or genealogical
library.

Berry> Wm., County Genealogies Pedi-
grees of Berkshire, Pub. 1837, Gilbert and

If the date is near 1851, you can refer p.p^j. Poternaster Row. London
to the census and find the birthplace Cox, J. Charles, Notes on the Churches
of the Darents and thus open the way ol Derbyshire, 4 Vol., Pub. 1875 by Bem-
for searching the parish register. If rose and Sons, 10, Paternoster Bid. Gives
you do not know the exact name and the early history of the ancient churches
date of birth it will be hard to get in- and chapelries of Derbyshire County,
formation from the record. Marshal, Dr. G. W., Marshall's Gene-

Wills In England alogist's Guide, 1903, gives a list of publi-

Wills are the backbone of genealog- cations which have, at various times printed
ical research in England. The informa- material on English families. The families are
tion they give is the most reliable, and arranged alphabetically and the publications
you can often make up several family are coded with the page, volume, etc.
group sheets from one will. So far as listed, enabling a person to quickly discovefl
telling who belongs to which family if genealogical or historical material on that
they are far better than the parish reg- line has appeared in print. This book along
ister. After you have examined a will with A Genealogical Guide, which is a con-
it is well to search a parish register to tinuation of this same idea for the period
fill in the dates and complete the record. 1903 to 1953 (see Whitmore, J. B., below),
Non-Parichial or Nonconformist are two of the most important books for

Registers English researchers.

In England and Wales each church Palmer, W. M. Monumental Inscriptions
kept its own records. Those who did not and Coats of Arms from Cambridge, Pub. by
belong to the Episcopal Church (Church Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1932.
of England) did not have their names Smith, Frank and Gardner, David E.,
mentioned in the parish registers. The Genealogical Research in England and
registers of the Nonconformists or Dis- Wales, Vol. 1., Pub 1956, Bookcraft Pub-
senters which include the Methodists, Bap- lishers, Salt Lake City, Utah. This book
tists, Quakers, Presbyterians and some can be purchased through most genealogi-
smaller groups were all, as far as pos- cal supply houses, including The Everton
sible, gathered up and deposited in Som- Publishers, price $3.00. The authors have
erset House, London. Most of these rec- been engaged in professional genealogical
ords began about 1650 and continued to work for many years. Both were born in
about 1850. To have these records search- England and handled and searched count-
ed, address: The Registrar General, Gen- less parish and archive records in almost
eral Register Office, Somerset House, every county in England before coming to
London, England. When a search is to America to continue their genealogical ca-
be made a description of the register reers. Their combined effort has brought
must be given, also the name and the' forth a book that should be in the hands
location of the chapel. For example, of every person seeking to do research in
Register of births, from the Baptist Chap- England and Wales.

el in Deerham, Norfolk, England. Also Thompson, T. R., A Catalogue of British
give about the date. The fee for searching Family Histories, 1928, second edition 1935.
when the application is made by mail Whitmore, T. R., A Genealogical Guide,
is usually 2 shillings 6 pence for each Pub. 1953, John Whitehead & Son Ltd.,
volume. If your ancestor lived in Deer- Leeds. An index to British pedigrees in con-
ham and you wish to try the other tinuation of Marshall's Genealogist's Guide,
churches you can send and have the Bap- (1903).

tist record searched. If that fails you Worthy, Chas, Esq., Devonshire Wills,
may try the Quakers, etc. There will be a Pub. Benrose & Sons Ltd., London, 1896. A
separate charge for each search. collection of annotated testimentary ab-

Your research in England will be eased stracts, together with the family history and
considerably by a study of the following genealogy of many of the most ancient
books. Some may be purchased, others you gentle houses of the west of England.

Counties of England

Name

Bedfordshire
Berkshire

Map

Abbreviation

Index

County Town

Beds.

Bedford

Berks.

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Map

Name

Abbreviation

Index

County Town

Buckinghamshire

Bucks.

Buckingham

Cambridgeshire

Cambs.

Cambridge

Cheshire (Chester Co.)

Ches.

Chester

Cornwall

BIO

Bodmin

Cumberland

Cumb.

Carlisle

Derbyshire

Derby

Devonshire

Devon

Plymouth

Dorsetshire

Dorset

Dorchester

Durham

Dur.

Durham

Essex

Clemsford

Gloucestershire

Glos. (Gloucs.)

Gloucester

Hampshire

Hants.

Winchester

Herefordshire

Herefs.

Hereford

Hertfordshire

Herts.

Hertford

Huntingdonshire

Hunts.

Huntingdon

Kent

Maidstone

Lancashire (Lancaster Co.)

Lanes.

Lancaster

Leicestershire

Leics.

Leicester

Lincolnshire

Lines.

Lincoln

London

Middlesex

Mx.

London

Monmouthshire

Mont.

Monmouth

Norfolk

Norwich

Northamptonshire

Northants.

Northampton

Northumberland

Northumb.

Newcastle

Nottinghamshire

Notts.

Nottingham

Oxfordshire

Oxon.

Oxford

Rutlandshire

Rut.

Oakham

Shropshire

Salop. (Shrops.)

Shrewsbury

Somersetshire

Somerset

Bristol

Staffordshire

Staffs.

Stafford

Suffolk

Ipswich

Surrey

Guilford

Sussex

Lewes

Warwickshire

War. (Warws.)

Warwick

Westmorelandshire

Westmd.

Appleby

Wiltshire

Wilts.

Salisbury

Worcestershire

Worcs.

Worcester

Yorkshire

York

Finland

Administrative Departments of Finland (Suomi).
Department Map Index Administrative

Center

1 Ahvenanmaa (Aland) D3

2 Uusimaa D4

3 Kymi C4

4 Turu-Pori C3

5 Hame C3

6 Mikkeli C4

7 Vaasa C3

8 Kuopio C4

9 Oulu B4

10 Lappi A4

Turku is the oldest Finnish City. It was founded by Swedes in 1157 and was
the capital of Finland from 1809 to 1819. Helsinki, the present capital of Finland,
was founded by Swedes in 1550.

See Map Page 182

Mariehamn (Maarianhamina)

♦Helsinki (Helsingfors)

Kptka

Turku (Abo)

Hameenlinna (Tavastehus)

Mikkeli (Sankt Michel)

Vaasa (Vasa)

Kuopio

Oulu (UleSborg)

Kemi

France

The genealogical situation in France is Protestants are, relatively speaking, rare,

quite different from the conditions in They are found in the Town Hall along

England. We have the noble families with the other registers,

in France as in England but unlike Eng- The Registers of "Insinuations" in

land there was no law to prevent any which all notorial documents that were

wealthy family from claiming nobility, subject to a tax had to be recorded is

The feudal families, the Quasi-feudal, another good source of information,
the noblemen created by the King, and Besides these, the National Library
the public office holder of old — all and the National Archives together with
claiming nobility — have many descen- the various departmental archives supply
dants. Today it is said that 70,000 French- inexhaustable sources of information,
men assume to be noblemen and not In these public archives are preserved
more than 8,000 or 9,000 have any real thousands of manuscript volumes ex-
title to that quality. tending back into the middle ages where

The coat of arms, which is so help- the researcher might spend many months

fu] in tracing pedigrees in England, was and still continue to find new things,

also greatly overdone in France. The The above information was gleaned

registration of coats of arms was taxed from a six page article in the Genealo-

ai 20 livres per person. The collector of gists' Magazine, published in London,

taxes compelled many persons not con- September, 1946.

nected with the nobility to pay the tax Regarding printed genealogies the au-

and assume a coat of arms. Over 60,000 thor has this comment: "Finally we have

coats of arms are recorded. the printed sources, the genealogcial

The earliest parish registers of births, works of the judges of arms and kings
marriages and burials were written about genealogists, the monks of St. Maur such
400 years ago. These registers were kept as Pere Anselme and a number of pro-
by the parish priest who, beginning in fessional and amateur genealogists who
about 1700 deposited copies of his regis- are more or less reliable, not to say
ters with the Clerk of the Court. At the more or less honest or trustworthy . . ,
time of the revolution (1789) the task Unfortunately the only guide to the
of recording births, marriages and deaths printed works on heraldry and genealo-
was transferred to the Mairie (Town gy is the Bibliotheque heraldique de la
Hall) where the parish priests were com- France by Joannis Guigard, published in
pelled by law to deposit all the registers Paris in 1861. For later works one has to
in his possession. The new registers wade through the printed or hand writ-
( since 1789) are known as Registres de ten indexes of the National Library,
I'Etate Civil. It is therefore to the Town which from my own experiences is a
Hall that one should apply to con- tedious and not very satisfactory process."
suit the records of births, marriages and He makes no mention at all of the
deaths either prior to or subsequent to books which form the great bulk of
the year 1789. The registers are kept genealogical literature in England and
in the Registry Office of the Town Hall America. Neither does he mention gene-
or in the Archives or in the Town Hall alogical libraries which play such an
Library. Occasionally the Departmental important part in genealogical research
Archivist has insisted on the transfer of in both England and America,
the old parish registers to his Muniment In the closing paragraphs he tells us
rooms when they have not been carefully that the Departmental Archivists are
preserved in the Town Hall. There is most helpful as also as a rule are the
usually an index provided for each vol- secretaries of the town halls in the im-
ume. Only rarely is a register found that portant towns all over France where the
dates back to 1600. War, fires, floods, old parish registers and the modern vital
and the carelessness of parish priests are statistics are kept. At the National Li-
all responsible for the loss of many par- brary and the National Archives one
ish registers, in Paris the original reg- must rely entirely on the manuscript and
isters and the duplicates up to 1860 were printed indexes. A letter of introduction
destroyed by fire. Copies of a few of from the Embassy is required of those
these registers had been made and these who would examine these indexes,
are still preserved. Registers of the Incidentally he gives the name of a

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firm of genealogists in Paris. Pelletier et Departments of France

Pecquet, 18 Rue de Cherche-Midi, Paris Departments are listed alphabetical
6, France. with the map index in parenthisis and

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the department capital following.

Ain (C4) Bourg; Aisne (A3) Laon;
Allier (C3) Moulins; Alpes-Maritimes
(D4) Nice; Andorra (Autonomous Re-
public) (D3) Andorra la Veil; Ardeche
(C3) Privas; Ardennes (A3) Mezi^res;
Ariege (D2) Foix; Aube (B3) Troyes;
Aude (D3) Carcassonne; Aveyron (C3)
Rodez.

Bas-Rhin (B4) Strasbourg; Basses-
Alpes (D4) Digne; Basses-Pyrenees (D2)
Pau; Belfort (B4) Belfort; Bouches-du-
Rh5ne (D4) Marseille; Calvados (A2)
Caen; Cantal (C3) Aurillac; Charente
(C2) Angoul^me; Charente-Maritime
(C2) La Rochelle; Cher (B3) Bourges;
Corr^ze (C3) Tulle; Corse (an island SE
of Var) Ajaccio; C0te-D'or (B3) Dijon;
Cmes-du-Nord (Bl) St. Brieuc; Creuse
(C3) Gueret.

Deux-S^vres (B2) Niort; Dordogne
(C2) Perigueux; Doubs (B4) Besancon;
Drome (C4) Valence; Eure (A2) Evreux;
Eure-et-Loir (B2) Chartres; Finist^re
(Bl) Quimper; Card (D3) Nimes; Gers
(D2) Auch; Gironde (C2) Bordeaux;
Haute-Garonne (D2) Toulouse; Haute-
Loire (C3) Le Puy; Haute-Marne (B4)
Chaumont; Haute-Savoie (C4) Annecy;
Haute-Sa5ne (B4) Vesoul; Hautes-Alpes
(C4) Gap; Hautes-Pyrenees (D2) Tar-
bes; Haute-Vienne (C2) Limoges; Haut-
Rhin (B4) Colmar; Herault (D3) Mont-
pellier.

Ille-et-Vilaine (B2) Rennes; Indre (B2)
Ch^teauroux; Indre-et-Loire (B2) Tours;
Is^re (C4) Grenoble; Jura (B4) Lons-
le-Saunier; Landes (D2) Mont-de-Mar-
san; Loire (C3) St. Etienne; Loire-In-
f^rieure (B2) Nantes; Loiret (B3) Or-

leans; Loir-et-Cher (B2) Blois; Lot (C3)
Cahors; Lot-et-Garonne (C2) Agen;
Lozere (C3) Mende.

Maine-et-Loire (B2) Angers; Manche
(A2) St. LS; Marne (A3) Chalons-sur-
Marne; Mayenne (B2) Laval; Meurthe-
et-Moselle (B4) Nancy; Meuse (A4)
Bar-le-Duc; Monaco (Principality) (D4)
Monaco; Morbihan (Bl) Vannes; Moselle
(A4) Metz; Ni^vre (B3) Nevers; Nord
(A3) Lille; Oise (A3) Beauvais; Orne
(B2) Alecon; Paris (B3) — ; Pas-de-Calais
(A3) Arras; Puy-de-D6me (C3) Cler-
mont-Ferrand; Pyrenees- Orientales (D3)
Perpignan.

Rh6ne (C3) Lyon; Sa^ne-et-Loire (B3)
M^con; Sarthe (B2) Le Mans; Savoie
(C4) Chambery; Seine-et-Marne (B3)
Melun; Sein-et-Oise (B3) Versailles;
Sein-Inferieure (A2) Rouen; Somme (A3)
Amiens; Tarn (D3) Albi; Tarn-et-Gar-
onne (D2) Montauban; Var (D4) Dragui-
gnan; Vaucluse (D4) Avignon; Vendee
(B2) La Roche-sur-Yon; Vienne (C2)
Poitiers; Vosges (B4) Epinal; Yonne (B3)
Auxerre.

Former Provinces of France
1, Flanders; 2, Artois; 3, Picardy;
4, Normandy; 5, He de France; 6, Cham-
pagne; 7, Lorraine; 8, Alsace; 9, Brit-
tany; 10, Maine; 11, Oreanais; 12, Bur-
gundy; 13, Franche-Comtg; 14, Anjou;
15, Touraine; 16, Berry; 17, Nivernais;
18, Poitou; 19, Marche; 20, Bourbonnais;
21, Aunis; 22, Saintonge; 23, Angoumois;
24, Limousin; 25, Auvergne; 25A, Ly-
onais; 26, Dauphin; 27, Guyenne; 28,
Gascony; 29, Beam: 30, Foix; 31, Rous-
sillon; 32, Languedoc; 33, Comtat; 34,
Provence.

Germany

The German people during the past
several centuries have been a record
keeping people. Some church records have
information since early in the sixteenth
century. Birth, Marriage, and death re-
cords are generally available since the
nineteenth century. Census records have
also been kept for many years, as have
parish and Protestant church records.
In some provinces the real estate records

are among the most valuable. Burger
rolls, tax lists, and police registers as-
sist in giving accurate identification
The German police method of keeping
track of every individual arriving in
any city or locality, is important in
tracing individuals or families from one
city to another.

To most Americans interested in Ger-
man genealogy it is neccessary to employ

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researchers in Germany. They can be
located in many German cities. Care
should be taken to secure reliable help,
researchers who subscribe to the highest
genealogical practices and ideals.

A great deal of information and many
records from Germany are now on file
in the library of the Genealogical So-
ciety of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Those not acquainted with the research
situations in Germany may find it ad-
vantagous to correspond with that of-

fice before employing a researcher
MILITARY OCCUPATION ZONES OF
GERMANY
Some controversy and confusion arises
when one attempts to name, locate and
established the capitals of the state and
zones of Germany. The accompanying
map has the boundries and capitols simi-
lar to those found in Hammond's Ambas-
sador World Atlas, published by C. S.
Hammond & Co. Maplewood, N. J., Third
Printing 1956. We quote from The New

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Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, Uni- which consists of the former state of
corn Publishers, Inc., N. Y., 36 Vols. 1951, Bavaria, a part of the former Prussian
and The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclo- province, the Palatinate, and the town
pedia, Published by The Viking Press, and district of Lindau; Wiirttemberg-
N Y 2 Vols 1953 Baden; Hessen; and Bremen. The capi-
This from Funk and Wagnalls: France: tals of these states are respectively
The French zone comprises parts of the Munich, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, and Bre-
fcrmer states of Prussia, Baden, Hessen, ^^J}-. ^ ^ , u. ,r-i • • -.n^r*
and Wlirtemburg, and all of the Saar- ^ This from Colunibm-Viking: in 1949
land. For administrative purposes, the ^wo separate republics came into ex-
zone has been divided into four states, ^^^^^^^' (1> federal Republic of (West)
namely Rhineland - Palatinate, Baden, Germany, temporary capital, Bonn, un-
Wurtembarg-Hohenzollem, and the Saar. der U. S., British, and French occupa-
The capitals of these states are respec- tion, consisting of the states of Bavaria,
tively Coblenz, Frieburg, Tubigen, and Wurttemberg-Baden, Hesse, and Bremen
Saarbrucken . . . United Kingdom: The <U.S. zone); North Rhine-Westphalia,
British zone consists of the former state Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, and
of Hamburg, portions of the former Hamburg (British Zone); Rhineland-
state of Prussia, and the former states Palatinate, Wiirttemberg-Hohenzollern,
of Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg- and Baden (French zone); and W. Ber-
Lippe, and Lippe. For administrative lin. (2) (East) German Democratic Re-
purposes the zone has been divided into public, capital E. Berlin, under Russian
four states, namely Schleswig-Holstein, occupation, consisting of the states of
Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westpha- Brandenburg, Mecklenberg, Thuringia,
lia, and Hamburg. The capitals of these Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.
states are respectively Kiel, Hanover, It should be remembered regarding
Dlisseldorph, and Hamburg . . . Union of Germany and most of the other Euro-
Soviet Socialist Republics: The Soviet P^'an countries that the spelling of
zone consists of the former states of many of the place names in their na-
Saxony, Thuringia, Mecklenburg and tive language is different than the Eng-
Anhalt, and portions of the former state lish spelling. For instance in Germany
of Prussia, including the provinces of Pflaz means the Palatinate; Bayern is
Silesia and Pomerania. For Adminis- Bavaria; Munchen is Munich; Nord-
trative purposes, the zone has been rhein is North Rhine; Sachsen is Sax-
divided into five states, namely Bran- ony; Koblenz is Coblenz, etc.
denburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thur- THE THIRD REICH ADMINISTRATIVE
ingia, and Mecklenburg. The capitals DIVISIONS
of these states are respectively. Pots- The sixteen administrative divisions
dam, Dresden, Halle, Weimer, and of the Third Reich in 1937 were Anhalt,
Schwerin . . . United States: The Ameri- Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Brunswick,
can zone comprises the former states Hamburg, Hesse, Lippe, Mecklenberg,
of Bavaria and Bremen and parts of Oldenburg, Prussia, Saarland, Saxony,
the former states of Prussia, Baden, Schaumburg-Lippe, Thuringia, and Wiirt-
Wurtemberg, and Hessen. For adminis- temburg. Liibeck, which had held the
trative purposes, the zone has been di- status of a city-state, was merged with
vided into four states, namely Bavaria, Prussia in March, 1937.

Ireland

Genealogical Research In Ireland Record Office in London) in 1922, Irish
Only a very few Irish records have records have been so sparse that con-
been published. Most of the original nected research is out of the question,
records were gathered in Dublin. In 1882 (except in the case of well known fam-
a big fire destroyed them. Others were ilies figuring in the standard reference
destroyed in the recent civil war in 1922. books.)"

The Society of Genealogists in London A general index for the vital statis-

recently wrote us as follows: "Since tics for all of Ireland is at the Cus-

the destruction of the Four Courts in tom House, Dublin, Ireland. There are

Dublin, (the equivalent of the Public birth, marriage and death records from

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1864. Protestant marriage records avail-
able only since 1845. Northern Ireland
has kept its registers separately since
1922.

Since 1708 land records and deeds
have been filed at the Land Registry,
Henrietta Street, Dublin. Two Indexes
have been made for these records — one
under the surname of the property own-
er, the other under the township or

property name. These records are be*
ing microfilmed.

Indexed records of wills filed in the
Prerogative Court of Armagh for all
Ireland by testators owning land in
more than one diocese are available.
They are also microfilmed. Wills re-
lating to property in one diocese only
were proved in the diocesan court. Each
court file is indexed separately.

County Map of Ireland

IRELAND 195

Ireland Provinces & Counties Belfast; Carlow (D3) Carlow; Cavan (B3)

Ireland is divided into four provinces Caven; Clare (D2) Ennis; Cork (E2)
which in turn are divided into 32 coun- Cork; Cork (County Borough (E2) Cork;
ties and four county boroughs. Each Donegal (Ancient Name Tryconnel also
county borough is a separate admini- O'Donnell's Country) (A2) Lifford;
strative district and each one is also the Down (B4) Downpatrick; Dublin (C4)
^ ^^ ^. Dublin; Dublin (County Borough) (C4)

county town of one of the counties. j^^^y,^. Fermanagh (B3) Enniskillen;

Ulster Province is divided between N. calway (CD Galway; Kerry (El) Tralee;
Ireland (counties Antrim, Down, Ar- Kildare (C3) Naas; Kilkenny (D3) Kil-
magh, Fermanagh, Tyrone, and London- kenny; Laoighis (Leix) (Formerly
derry) and republic (counties Monaghan, Queen's) (D3) Portlaoighise; Leitrim
Cavan, and Donegal). Other three prov- (B3) Carwick-on-Shannon; Leix (see
inces are in republic — Leinster has coun- Laoighis); Limerick (D2) Limerick; Lim-
ties Louth, Meath, Dublin, Kildare, Wick- erick (Luimneach) (County Borough)
low, Carlow, Wexford, Longford; Mun- (D2) Limerick; Londonderry (A3) Lon-
ster Province has Tipperary, Waterford, donderry; Longford (C3) Longford;
Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Clare; Con- Louth (B4) Dundalk; Mayo (Bl) Castle-
naught Province has Leitrim, Roscommon, bar; Meath (C4) Trim; Monaghan (B3)
Galway, Mayo, and Sligo. Monaghan; Offaly (C3) Tullamore; Ros-

Counties and County Boroughs of Ireland common (C2) Roscommon; Sligo (B2)
(Counties are listed alphabetical with the Sligo; Tipperary (D3) Clonmel; Tyrone
map index in parenthisis and the county (B3) Omagh; Waterford (E3) Water-
town following.) ford; West Meath (C3) Mullingar; Wex-
Antrim (A4) Belfast; Armagh (B4) ford (D4) Wexford; Wicklow (D4) Wick-
Armagh; Belfast (County Borough) (A4) low.

Italy

ITALY bald F. Bennett, its executive secretary.

During 1947 and 1948 the records The records from sixteen parishes were

^ T>- ^ 4- T4^ 1 • *•! J photographed, including the years 1690

from Piedmont, Italy, were microfilmed f ^^^^ r\ ■e■^ ^-

"" to 1940. One film contains as many as

foi the Genealogical Society of Utah ^ggg p^ges. There are several films

under the personal direction of Archi- available.

Netherlands

Capital — The Hague ('s Gravenhage)

The early history of Holland has been Many Hollanders have come to the

one of troubles and wars, in all of United States and are now living in

which the determination of the people various parts of the nation. Michigan

to rule themselves has been paramount, and Illinois have many of these indus-

In religious affairs they have always trious people within their borders. Since

leaned heavily toward Protestantism. 1861 more than four thousand Holland-

T'Vio r^ofi^r, rr;„«o fi-^^^^i^i c,.^..^v,+ +^ ^^^ havc made their homes in Utah.

Ihe nation gives financial support to „, .. , ^ x- ^- ^ n ^ ^-l

^^ The vital statistics of all of the prov-

several religious organizations. i^ces are being microfilmed under the

Since 1811 vital records have been direction of the Genealogical Society

kept, giving detail information about of Utah. South Holland and Groningen

each individual. records have been filmed and work is

Since 1850 the Bevolkingsregister progressing in other provinces,
(population register) has kept informa- Several trained Holland researchers
tion as to the movements of each in- are connected with the Genealogical So-
dividual, ciety of Utah.

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Netherlands is divided into eleven provinces. Each province controls its own archive.
Name Map Index Capital

Drenthe

Assen

Friesland

Leeuwarden

Gelderland

Arnhem

Groningen

Limburg

Maastricht

Noord (North) Brabant

Hertogenbosch

Noord (North) Holland

Haarlem

Overijssel (Overyssel)

Zwolle

Utrecht

Zealand

Middleburg

Zuid (South) Holland

*'s Gravenhage (The Hague)

Norway

Administrative Districts (Counties) of Norway (Norge) are called Fylkers as
follows:

Administrative Center

Kristiansand

Arendal

Stavanger

Skien

Tonsberg

Moss

*Oslo

Drammen

Bergen

Hermansverk

Lilliehammer

Hamar

Molde

Trondheim

Steinkjer

Bodo

Tromso

Vadso

Fylker

Map Index

1 Vestager

2 Aust-Agder

3 Rogaland

4 Telemark

5 Vestfold

6 'Ostfold

7 Akershus

8 Oslo

9 Buskerud

10 Hordaland

11 Bergen

12 Sogn og Fjordane

13 Opland

14 Hedmark

15 More og Romsdal

16 Sor-Tr6ndelag

17 Nord-Trondelag

18 Nordland

19 Troms

20 Finnmark

See Map Page 182

Scandinavia

Included in this designation should be
Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and
Iceland. Years ago Finland was part
of Sweden and many Swedish families
moved there. They have been perpetuat-
ed since then in Finland, and the pre-
sent generations look upon Finland as
their original country. There are also
Finns and Russians living in Finland,
but their names and languages are
entirely different. The present Iceland-

ers have descended from the three Scan-
dinavian peoples, but mainly from the
Danish.

At different times over the centuries,
Norway has been part of either Den-
mark or Sweden. It wasn't until 1905
that it became a kingdom of its own,
when a Danish prince was invited to be-
come King of Norway.

The three languages are enough alike
that they can be understood by people

198 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

of all three countries, although the dia- and son's name is Ola or Jens, or

lects in different sections of each one of Svend, or Carl, the full name of the

^, ^, . . V, +u 4. son would be Ola Hansen, or Jens Han-

the three countries vary so much that ^^ ^„^ xj^,, ^^ ^v, ^'^^^ xjo«^^.,

•^ sen, or Svend Hansen, or Carl Hansen.

they are not understood in every section ^he same is true in Swedish families,

of the country. The dialects of the coun- with the exception that there the name

try sections are nothing like the city dia- ending is "sson" instead of "sen" as in

lects, and cities vary in different sec- the Norwegian and the Danish. How-

tions of the country. ever, among Scandinavians in America

Until about 1880 the most common this name ending is not adhered to

method of giving surnames was for as strictly as it was years ago. Among

the children to take the father's first Swedish families the "sson" may have

name or given name and add to it become "son," but never "sen". Many

"ssen", or "sen", or "sson". For instance, Norwegian or Danish name endings,

if the father's first name was Ronald, are "son" instead of "sen". In Iceland

his children's surname would be Ronald- the name endings are like that in Swe-

ssen or Ronaldsson; if Erick, Erickssen den, "sson," as Gislasson, Thordarsson,

or Ericksson; If Johan, Johanssen or Sveinsson, Valgardsson, etc.

Johansson; if Niels or Nils, Nielssen or Books:

Nilsson. if Ingvar, Ingvarssen or In- Nelson, O. N., Ph.D., History o[ the

gvarsson, etc. Scandinavians in the United States 2 Vols.

The patronymic method of naming per- O N. Nelson & Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

sons is not so difficult to comprehend 1904.

as some seem to believe. For instance, Hokanson, Nels, Swedish Immigrants in

if the father's name is Hans Sorensen Lincoln's Time, Harper & Bros., New York.

Scotland

Research In Scotland Permission for a general search, that

Unlike the conditions in England, the is a search that is not limited to one
parish registers in Scotland have all person or to one census will be grant-
been gathered in one building in Edin- ed only to responsible officials or local
burgh. Besides the parish registers, authorities engaged in making search
there is a wealth of other records in for public purposes, and to other spec-
Edinburgh which may be searched. Very ially approved applicants. A general
few of the Scottish records have been search must not exceed six hours and
printed. It is usually best to hire a must be completed within two days. The
genealogist to do the searching. cost is One Pound (about $3.00) which

Before engaging help perhaps you covers the cost of the extract. Each
should inquire from the Genealogical So- additional extract costs two shilUngs six
ciety of Utah, Salt Lake City, what micro- pence. The office force does not do
film records from that country are the searching in a general search. When
available and if assistance can be ob- you write for your application blank
tained to search them. ask for the name of a searcher.

The Census of Scotland The earliest vital registers of Scot-

The census of Scotland was taken the land have a starting date of 1538 but
same years and contained the same in- most of them did not start until much
formation as the census of England. In later, the majority having their incep-
Scotland the census returns of 1841, 1851, tion between 1640 and 1700.
1861 and 1871 may be searched. Written When writing for information it is
application must be made for permission very important that the birth date be
to search the census. For application given also the locality and occupation
blanks write to the Registrar General, of the deceased. The law requiring regis-
New Register House, Edinburgh, Scot- tration of births, deaths and marriages
land. The fee for a particular search, was passed in 1855.

that is a search for one person or house- The Old Registration House in Edin-
hold at one census and at one certain burgh has among others the following
address, is ten shillings. If the address records: Wills and Deeds, 1514 to present;
is good enough this search will be made Land and Housing records (real estate
by the office force without extra charge, transfers), 1550 to present; Lyon Court

SCOTLAND

199

County Map of Scotland

200

THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Records (King-of-Arms) ; Guild regis-
trations (tradesmen); Poll Tax (regis-
tration of males of over 16 for military
service) ; Registration of University grad-
uates of the Universites of Edinburgh,
Glasgow, St. Andrew's and Aberdeene.
COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND

Counties are listed alphabetically with
the map index in parenthisis and the
county seat following.

Aberdeen (C4) Aberdeen; Angus (or
Forfar) (D4) Forfar; Argyll (D2) In-
veraray; Ayr (F3) Ayr; Banff (C4)
Banff; Berwick (E4) Duns; Bute (E2)
Rothesay; Caithness (B3) Wick; Clack-
mannan (E3) Clackmannan; Dumbarton

(E2) Dumbarton; Dumfries (F3) Dum-
fries; East Lothain (E4) Haddington;
Fife (D4) Cupar; Iverness (C3) Iver-
ness; Kincardine (D4) Stonehaven; Kin-
ross (E3) Kinross; Kirkcudbright (F3)
Kirkcudbright; Lanark (E3) Lanark;
Midlothain (E4) *Edinb;urgh; Moray
(C3) Elgin; Narin (C3) Narin; Orkney
(A3) Kirkwall; Peebles (E4) Peebles;
Perth (D3) Perth; Renfrew (E3) Ren-
frew; Ross & Cromarty (C2) Dingwall;
Roxburgh (F4) Jedburgh; Selkirk (E4)
Selkirk; Shetland see Zetland; Suther-
land (B3) Dornoch; West Lothain (E3)
Linlithgow; Wigtown (F3) Wigtown;
Zetland (B4) Lerwick.

South Africa

The Cape Settlement was established
by the Dutch East India Co. as a "half
way house" between Europe and India,
under the command of Jan van Riebeeck,
who arrived in Table Bay on the 6 April,
1652. Ten years later van Riebeeck was
appointed commander to the Government
at Malacca and the muster rolls of the
Cape Settlement showed it had grown to
several hundred inhabitants during his
tenure of office. The Cape settlement
continued under the rule of this trading
company for about 140 years, gradually
growing from within and without. The
Netherlands, of course, supplied most of
the immigrants but French refugees also
came in considerable numbers as well
as numerous Germans, a few Swiss and
others.

The first British occupation occurred
in 1795 but not until 1806 did they wrest
it permanently from the Dutch. In 1820
under sponsorship of the British Govern-
ment over 3,000 English settlers arrived
at Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), becoming
the nucleus of the English speaking peo-
ple of South Africa. The start of the
great trek of the Boers (South African
descendants of the Dutch), came in 1836.
They traveled north and east with the
object of settling outside the sphere of
British control. Gradually they found
their way to Natal, Orange Free State
and Transvaal, which with the Cape
Province, after much tribulation and
war, now form the Union of South Africa.
Published Genealogies

The oldest and largest published
genealogical works is that of Christoffel

Coetzee de Villiers, "Geslacht-Register
der Oude Kaapsche Familien" (Genera-
tion Index of the Old Cape Families)
which was published in three volumes in
1893-4. This is an excellent reference
book but should be checked with original
or other sources where possible as it has
some mistakes. Another useful gen-
ealogical work is "Personalia of the
Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806" by Dr.
J. Hoge, which was published as the 1946
issue of the "Archives Year Book for
South African History." This publication
attempts to give a complete list of the
Germans and Swiss who came to the Cape
in the service of the Dutch East India Co.
during the period 1652 till 1806. It lists
as sources manuscripts in the Cape sec-
tion of the Government Archives and
Archives of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Other good sources are: "The French
Refugees at the Cape" by Col. Graham
Botha (1919); "Precis of the Archives of
the Cape of Good Hope" in two vol.,
consisting of Reque^ten (Memorials)
1715-1806; "De Afkomst der Boeren" by
Dr. H. J. Colenbrander contains a list of
many of the early marriages of the set-
tlers, with birthplaces of the wives — some-
times not otherwise obtainable "The
Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in
South Africa" lists all the settlers of
1820 and gives their ages as of that year.

The histories and genealogies of some
individual families have been compiled,
some of them being: "Genealogy Jacob
Izaak de Villiers and his wife Johanna
Margaretha Muller of Waltevreeden,
Dist. of Paarl" by D. F. Bosman; "His-
tory of the Malan de Merindol' compiled

SOUTH AFRICA 201

by Henry Victor Malan (1836) and revis- with the Master of the Supreme Court,
ed by James John Malan (1950); ''Record The charge made for a certified copy of
of the Caldecott Family of South Africa"; a Death Notice is 6s 6d. If the complete
"Jan Van Riebeeck Zijn Voor-en Nages- will is wanted, write for cost. Cape Prov-
lacht" (his ancestors and posterity) pub- ince wills and Deceased Estate records
lished 1952 by the Netherlands govern- (Death Notices) from 1689 to 1833 are
ment gives many South African descend- kept in the Union Archives and from 1834
ants of the leader of the first European to date in the Master's Office of the
Colony south of the tropic of Capricorn. Supreme Court — the address of both is
State Records Queen Victoria Street, Capetown, C. P.

Laws requiring the registration of South Africa. In Natal the Master of the
births, deaths and marriages were passed Supreme Court has wills dating back to
in Natal in 1868, in the Cape Province 1852 and Deceased Estates from 1872 to
in 1895, in the Orange Free State and date — the address is Pietermaritzburg,
Transvaal in 1902. Prior to these dates Natal, Souht Africa. Deceased Estate rec-
it was optional with parents as to wheth- ords in the Master's Office in the Orange
er they had the births of their children Free State started in 1850 — the address
registered or not. Survivors had the same is Bloemfontein, OFS, South Africa. The
option with the registration of deaths, address of the Master's Office in the
The registration of marriages started Transvaal is Pretoria, Tvl., South Africa,
some years before that of births and Their records start in 1872.
deaths in all the provinces except Natal. It must be remembered that sometimes
Births, marriage and death certificates estates are settled many years after
may be obtained from the local registrar death occurred and that most of the
or from the Registrar of Births, Mar- estates are indexed according to the year
nages and Deaths, Dept. of Int. Pretoria, they are filed. Also, none of the public
South Africa. Birth certificates are of record offices have facilities for doing
little value to the genealogists of South research, making it necessary to use
Alrica, however, as the information given care in giving information as to what is
on them is restricted by law to the wanted and what year it may be found
name, place and date of birth of the v/hen asking for certificates. In the case
registrant — the price is 2s 6d. Full birth of birth certificates, the date and place
certificates, giving the name, place and of birth must be given, also the names
date of birth, also the names, ages, place of parents. If the record is not found in
of birth and marriage of parents, may be that year, an additional charge of 2s 6d
had only by applicants residing outside is made for searching the year before
the Union of South Africa — the price be- and the year following the one given,
ing 5s. (s — Shilling, abt. 15 cents; d — but no longer search than for the three
penny, abt. iy2 cents) years will be made on one application.

The marriage certificate gives the Church Records

names of each party, the date and place The church records in the Archives of
of marriage, the country of birth and the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduits-
the age of each. The death certificate Hervormde of Gereformeerde Kerk,
gives the name, date and place of death, claiming 85% of the membership of the
age at death and birthplace. In the case Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa)
of children who died under 10 years of are of great value to historical and gene-
age, it also gives the names of the alogical researchers. They have baptism
parents. The cost of a marriage certifi- and other records dating back to 1665
cate or death certificate is 2s 6d. and it has been the aim of the church

In the Union of South Africa they have to gather all their church records up to
what they call a "Death Notice" which about 1875 to this repository. However,
is completed on the filing of a will or some of the local churches still have
on the settlement of deceased estate, their records from inception and, of
These are very valuable for genealogists course, inquiries on recent records must
as they list, when properly executed, the also be made locally. Baptism Certifi-
following information: name, age, birth- cates may be had for 2s 6d, membership
place, date and place of death, names of certificates for 2s 6d, and marriage cer-
spouse, parents and children. The law tificates for 6s 6d. Address inquiries to
requires that all estates over ten pounds Dutch Reformed Church Archives, 44
sterling be probated, also that all wills Queen Victoria Street, Capetown, C. P.,
of estates under that amount be filed South Africa, or to locality where your

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people came from.

The records of other churches
are kept mostly in the local churches and
inquiries should be directed to them.

The Union Archives at Pretoria, Pieter-
maritzburg, Bloemfontein and Capetown,
though not staffed sufficiently to do re-
search, have many wonderful old records
which are veritable "gold mines." In
some cases the old church records have
been removed to the State Archives as in
Pietermaritzburg where they have bap-

tismal and marriage records kept by the
"Predikants" as they crossed the plains
with the Voortrekkers. Also the Marriage
Register— 1837 to 1912 of the Dutch Re-
formed Church of that locality.

The South African Mission of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, with headquarters at "Cumorah"
Main Rd., Mowbray, C. P., South Africa,
has a card index file of about 15,000
names which is growing continually as
members in South Africa send in all in-
formation on their personal lines.

Sweden

Research In Sweden

The primary source of genealogical
information in Sweden, as elsewhere,
is the church record. These records are
recognized to be among the best in Eur-
ope. If your ancestors whose information
you want lived within the past century
their records would be in the church of
the community in which they lived. If
the desired data is older than that then
the search should be conducted in the
landsarkiv in that particular section of
the country.

The major archive in Sweden is Riks-
arkivet, located in Stockholm and hous-
ing most of the material of national im-
portance. Besides that there are five
main provincial archives, known as lands-
arkiven, serving the various sec-
tions of the country. They are located at
Harnosand in the province of Anger-
manland on the Gulf of Bothnia; at
Uppsala in Uppland, the seat of the
Archbishop of the Swedish Lutheran
church; at Gothenburg (Goteborg) on
the west coast; at Vadstena in the prov-
ince of Ostergotland, a short distance
south-west of Motala on the east coast
of the large lake Vattern, and at Lund
in the'^ravince of Skane, a short dis-
tance north-east of Malmo, Sweden's
third largest city.

As mentioned previously, the most im-
portant source of genealogical informa-
tion is the church which your ancestors
attended in their hdme community.
Since there are more than 2,550 of these
local churches in Sweden, you recognize
the necessity of your knowing the cor-
rect name and locality of the church
in which you are interested. Since there
is a repitition of names of localities and
churches, you should know in which Ian

or province it is located. Just the name
of the province is not enough. This in-
formation is necessary tor you to have
whether you hire a professional gene-
alogist to do the work for you, or you
search the available Swedish microfilms
yourself.

It is very rare to find Swedish records
earlier than 1686 although some have
been found as early as 1610. If your
lines run into those of more important
families you may find them much ear-
lier.

Among the different records that may
be found in most churches Male Bap-
tisms, Female Baptisms, Male Confir-
mations, Female Confirmations, Mar-
riages, Incoming Members, Outgoing
Members, Visitations (Husforhorslang-
der), Male Deaths, Female Deaths, and
General Index.

Marriage banns are recorded in the
church of the bride.

Papers filed in the District Court (Har-
adsratten) are also important records
for the genealogical researcher. Among
available records in these offices are
the Inventories (losoreforteckning),
Wills (testamenter), census records
(mantalslangder), and public records of
land (jordebockerna).

One of the bugaboos to the novice re-
searcher of Swedish genealogy is the
patronymic system in vogue in Sweden
until about 1890. Patronymics were
used in many other sections of the world.
Patronymic indicates a name derived
from the father or ancestors. Here are
examples of patronymics from different
parts of the world: Tydides, the son of
Tydeus; Pelides, the son of Pelius; Fitz-
william, the son of William; Williamson,
the son of WilHam; Pavlovitch, the son of
Paul; MacDonald, the son of Donald. The

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203

Swedish patronymics are derived by add- named Peter Hansson would have as
ing the ending son to the father's given their surname Petersson, while his girls
name. For instance the sons of a man would be Petersdotter or daughter.

Administrative Districts

(Counties)

of Sweden (Sve

rige) are called Lans as

follows:

Lan

Map

Administrative

Landskap

(County)

Index

Center

(Province)

1 Malmohus

Malmo

Skane

2 Kristianstad

Kristianstad

Skdne

3 Blekinge

Karlskrona

Blekinge

4 Kronoberg

VSxjo

Smaland

5 Halland

Halmstad

Halland

6 Jonkoping

Jonkoping

Smaland

7 Kalmar

Kalmar

Smaland

8 Gotland

Visby

Gotland

9 Alvsborg

Vanersborg

Vastergotland

10 G'oteborg och Bohus

Goteborg

Bohuslan

11 Skaraborg

Mariestad

Vastergotland

12 Gstergbtland

Linkoping

Ostergotland

13 Sodermanland

Nykoping

Sodermanland

14 Orebro

Orebro

Narke

15 Varmland

Karlstad

Varmland

16 Vastmanland

Vasteras

Vastermanland

17 Stockholm

♦Stockholm

Sodermanland

18 Uppsala

Uppsala

Uppland

19 Kopparberg

Falun

Dalarna

20 Gavleborg

Gavle

Gastrikland

21 Jamtland

Ostersund

. Jamtland

22 Vasternorrland

HarnosancJ

Angermanland

23 Vasterbotten

Umea

Vasterbotten

24 Norrbotten

Lulea

Norrbotten

25 City of Stockholm

See Map Page 182

Switzerland

Capital, Bern

Switzerland, anciently known as Hel-
vetia, covers an area about half as
large as South Carolina, and into that
little space is crowded a population
twice that of South Carolina plus half
a million. The population 4,700,297, as
compared to South Carolina's 2,117, 027.
Switzerland is surrounded by France,
Germany, Austria, and Italy. Languag-
es represented are German, French,
Italian, and Romansch.

Switzerland consists of twenty-two
states or cantons which form the Swiss
Republic. For administrative purposes
three cantons, Appenzell, Basel, and Un-
terwalden, have been divided into two
districts each. The cantons are Aargau,
Appenzell, Basselland, Bern, Fribourg,
Geneve, Glarus, Grisons, Luzern, Neu-
chatel, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Schwyz.
Solothurn, Thurgau, Ticino, Unterwald-
en, Uri, Valais, Vaud, Zug, and Zurich.

Among the available genealogical
sources are the church or parish reg-
isters, the baptismal, the confirmation,
the marriage, and the death books. The
confirmation books contain the names
and records of the fifteen-year-old boys
and girls who have prepared themselves
in special study groups under the direc-
tion of the minister prior to their partici-
pation for the first time in the Lord's
Supper. Among the non-church records
are the Burger Rodel (Citizen Roll) in
which is recorded the name of each citi-
zen, together with his parents' and
grandparents' names, and the Zivilstand-
samt (civilian position), containing about
the same information.

Of the many European nationalities
represented in Utah, none has been more
consistent and energetic in their re-
search activities than have the Swiss.

204 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS

Cantons of Switzerland

GRAUBUNDEN

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ZlJRICH
ZUrich^

AARGAU
Aai

Glarus

SCHWYZ
Schwyz

^Itdorf
URI

Luzern

•Sarnen^

UNTHRWAL-

LUZERN

iTiestal

• Bern

:jj^

•Fribourg
FRIBOURG

Bellinzona*

TICI^D

VALIS

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203

As a result voluminous records have
been filed with the Genealogical Society
of Utah. For instance, one woman has
over the years gathered more than
60,000 names of ancestors, all of whom
have been thoroughly identified. Sev-
eral records go back as far as 1520.

People of Swiss descent, regardless
of their present residence, may do well
to confer with the Genealogical Society
of Utah, 80 North Main Street, Salt
Lake City 1, Utah, about their research
activities before engaging a professional
researcher.

Wales

For nearly five hundred years Eng-
land and Wales have been one country.
The Welsh government affairs have
been conducted in London just as those
of England. In everything else the two
peoples are entirely different. The
Welsh, or Cymry, have their own tra-
ditions, history, language, literature, and
songs.

"English and Welsh records were com-
piled under the same condition^ and
laws," says David E. Gardner, an un-
tiring Utah student and teacher of gen-
ealogy. "This means that parish regis-
ters, probate court wills and administra-
tions, and civil registering of vital sta-
tistics (since 1837), taxing, militia re-
cords, and overseeng of the poor and
highways were practically the same."

Mr. Gardner explains that the lang-
uage is so difficult that names of days,
months, and counties often are mistaken
for places of birth. Spelling of names
is not always uniform. To add to the
difficulty of interpreting the old records,
some of the parish vicars or ministers
have interchanged Latin and English.

Since many of the surnames were
taken from the place of residence, you
will find many families with the same

name who are unrelated.

The patronymics (father's name)
changed with each generation just as
in the Scandinavian countries. Until
1850 these changes were common in all
families. So, for instance, John son
Philip Thomas, is the same as John ap
Philip Thomas, which becomes John
Philip, or David ab Evan Hugh, becomes
David Evan or David Bevan.

The only legal form of marriage from
1754 to 1837 was by the parish minister.
If births and burials are not found in
parish register, search nonrparbchial
registers, many of which, prior to 1837,
are at Somerset House.

Because of the changes of names and
frequency of common names, wills may
give the only real identification.

Wills and administrations are grouped
into four probate courts: (1) Llandaff
(South Wales and Monmouth); (2) St.
David's (West Wales); (3) Bangor (Cen-
tral and Northwest Wales); (4) St.
Asaph (Northwest Wales). All names in
the records are indexed under the first
given name.

Unless the researcher is well acquaint-
ed with the Welsh language, it may be
to his advantage to employ a Welsh
professional researcher.

Counties of Wales

Map

Name

Abbreviation

Index

County Town

Anglesey

Ang.

Beaurnares

Brecknockshire

Brec.

Brecknock or Brecon

Caernarvonshire (Carnarvon)

Caern.

Caernarvon

Cardiganshire

Card.

Cardigan

Carmarthenshire

Carm.

Carmarthen

Denbighshire

Denb.

Denbigh

Flintshire

Flint.

Flint

Glamorganshire

Glam.

Cardiff

Merionethshire

Meri.

Dolgelly

Montgomeryshire

Mont.

Montgomery

Pembrokeshire

Pemb.

Pembroke

Radnorshire

Rad.

New Radnor

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