The Adventures of Indiana Bones Feb 2013

Indiana Bones will be off soon, this morning, for another adventure in genealogical research. This time in the Christian County Courthouse looking for deed records of another John West born sometime between 1760 & 1775 in North Carolina. This John West is somewhat elusive, but bought the land inherited by the heirs of Thomas West, Jr. in Nov. of 1836 in Christian Co., KY. It says in that indenture that John West was the brother of Thomas West (the deceased)... others say that is not correct that he is the son of Thomas West and brother to the other heirs. Indiana Bones is on a quest to find out about this John West's actual relationship is to my direct ancestor Thomas West.

I have some U.S. Census records for a John West (or perhaps for more than one man) beginning in North Carolina and then in Christian Co., KY.  there is a John Trip West in Christian Co. that is more than likely the son of Thomas West that is in the 1850 Census (born about 1773).  The one that bought the land in 1836, we believe was born about 1762 and would be the young uncle to the 1773 John West.

I will begin by trying to locate the disposal of that 1836 land (250 acres) and see if I can find any other deeds and tax records for the brother John West.

- Indiana Bones

U.S. Census 2010 Maps & Stats

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Cool map from U.S. Census that gives info per county in the U.S.

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block

projects.nytimes.com

Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which was conducted from 2005 to 2009.

projects.nytimes.com

-Submitted by Carol Lantaff

1940 U.S. Census Release 02 Feb 2012

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The 1940 U.S. Federal Census...
will be released on 02 Feb 2012

The digital images will be accessible free of charge at NARA facilities nationwide through our public access computers as well as on personal computers via the internet.

Go to the National Archives website for more information and check out their cool countdown clock... 161 days, 21 hours, 0 minutes and 20 seconds til release time (at this typing)!

http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/index.html

"Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Census..."

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. Census...
but were afraid to ask!

Well, maybe not everything, but a great deal of information is available at this site.

Intergrated Public Use Microdata Series - IPUMS
http://usa.ipums.org/usa/

IPUMS-USA is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing United States census data. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota and others.

Its goals are to:

Collect and preserve data and documentation
Harmonize data
Disseminate the data absolutely free!

Major Collaborators:

FamilySearch.org and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
National Archives and Records Administration, Central-Plains Federal Records Center
SocialExplorer.com and CUNY-Queens College, Andrew Beveridge and Ahmed Lacvic
U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies, Todd K. Gardner

"It gives an interesting statement of purpose on the home page, and lots of census information. What one of my researchers here in Lake Zurich is doing is printing out the questions that were asked of people for the 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 censuses and using those questions when she is interviewing family members. 'What do you think you answered when you were filling out this census?' The web site also provides all of the same information from 1850-1930, the printable census forms for 1850-1930 will provide the questions/columns necessary. I always keep a printout handy when I’m teaching someone.” - Carol Bartlett

"Interactive U.S. Census - Footnote.com"

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FOOTNOTE.COM LETS PEOPLE CREATE AMERICA’S FAMILY TREE THROUGH THE ONLY

INTERACTIVE U.S. CENSUS

-Finding Ancestors and distant relatives can be as easy as clicking a single button-
Lindon, UT - March 11, 2010 – In order to encourage more people to find their ancestors and connect with family, Footnote.com, the web’s premier interactive history site, is opening all of their U.S. census documents for free to the public for a limited time.
Unlike any other historical collection on the web, the Interactive Census Collection has the unique ability to connect people related to ancestors found on the historical documents. Simply by clicking the “I’m Related” button for a name on the document will identify you as a descendent and also list others that have done the same. Never before has it been as easy to connect with distant relatives through historical documents. To learn how to get started with the Interactive Census, visit: http://go.footnote.com/discover.

This was recently released by Footnote.com of which I found on Eastman's Online Newsletter on Friday. I was not impressed when I saw what they had online with the Census:

1860 US Census 100% complete
1900 US Census 5% complete
1910 US Census 3% complete
1920 US Census 3% complete
1930 US Census 98% complete

Not all US Censuses are complete. We are always adding more records every month. Watch a Census year to see when we update it.

I suspect it will be another nice tool once they get more complete census online (and hopefully the 1870 & 1880!).

- Submitted by JGWest