{"id":842,"date":"2012-06-21T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=842"},"modified":"2012-06-21T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:10:05","slug":"using-the-census-part-ii-locator-indexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/21\/using-the-census-part-ii-locator-indexes\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Census, Part II: Locator Indexes"},"content":{"rendered":"

When places of origin and migration patterns are not clear in the data you have, use these Locator Indexes<\/strong> to determine where to search.\u00a0 When surnames have been changed–check these indexes for variants and translations from\u00a0foreign languages like Grman, French, Italian, and Spanish.\u00a0 Enumerators often made adjustments in the spellings of names based on what they heard, how they interpreted the names, whether or not they could spell the name, and how they were told the name was spelled.<\/p>\n

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  1. 3,169 surnames with 10,000 or more persons<\/span>.\u00a0 Report of Distribution of Surnames in the Social Security Number File, 1 Sept 1974.\u00a0 Department of Health, Education, Welfare.\u00a0 Available in Government Document Libraries, some public libraries, most university libraries.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. 20,909 Spanish surnames<\/span>.\u00a0 Based on names from Madrid, Basque area, Catalan, Galicia, Castile.\u00a0 Special computer database for the 1980 Census.\u00a0 Computer printout available\u00a0 Genealogy Library Center, Inc., 60 West Main Street, Tremonton UT 84337 (mailing address: PO Box 40, Garland UT 84312)\u00a0and selected research libraries in Washington DC.<\/li>\n
  3. 27,337 surnames<\/span>.\u00a0 A Century of Population Growth<\/strong><\/em>, Washington DC:\u00a0 Bureau of the Census, 1909.\u00a0 Reprinted 1969 and 1980, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD.\u00a0 Available in most genealogy libraries and on microfiche, Family History Library, 60100733-76.\u00a0 Significant list to discover origins because since 1790, most foreign surnames were Americanized to different spellings than those on the 1790 list.\u00a0 For example, many Irish surnames dropped O and Mc from the surname.\u00a0 E. Kay Kirkham, Survey of American Census\u00a0Schedules<\/strong><\/em> (Salt Lake City:\u00a0 Deseret Book Company, 1959), reprinted as Table III:\u00a0 Names Represented by 100 white persons by state and territories at the first census, 1790,<\/em>\u00a0 5,700<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Surnames<\/span><\/em><\/strong> from the 1790 Census<\/strong><\/em>, plus variants, reprinted by Heritage Quest, 1998.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. 1,650 surnames<\/span>. Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Founders of Early American Families:\u00a0 Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Cleveland:\u00a0 General Court of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975.\u00a0 See also his “English Surnames of the Early American Colonists and their Backgrounds,” Genealogical Journal<\/strong><\/em> 8 (Sep 1979):\u00a0 163-68.<\/li>\n
  5. 5,000+ additional names<\/span>.\u00a0 1800 Census Index<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 North Salt Lake:\u00a0 Heritage Quest, 2000.\u00a0 A completely new index to the second census taken in 1800–with over 5,000 additional names not found in earlier indexes.\u00a0 1790<\/strong><\/em> and 1810<\/strong><\/em> are also newly indexed with several thousand new names added to those indexes.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  6. “The Population of the United States, 1790:\u00a0 A Symposium.”\u00a0 Core surnames that are always German, Dutch, Swedish, French, and Welsh.\u00a0 For example, Irish surnames are also discussed with the comment that a core “list of just Irish names is impossible to make.”\u00a0 Hughes, which is\u00a0usually considered Welsh, is actually Irish.\u00a0 Very important article.<\/li>\n
  7. Debra L. Newman.\u00a0 Special Lists 34:\u00a0 List of Free Black Heads of Families in the First Census of the United States<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Washington DC:\u00a0 NARS, 1973 and reprints.\u00a0 Names are alphabetical state by state.\u00a0 Use with Raymond Martin Bell, “A List of Slave Owners, Washington County Pennsylvania, 1782,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly<\/strong><\/em> 59 (1971): 22-23.\u00a0 And Carter B. Woodson, Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830 together with Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the<\/strong><\/em> United States in 1830<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Westport CT:\u00a0 Negro Universities Press, n.d.<\/li>\n
  8. African-American Census Schedule Online<\/span>. http:\/\/www.prairiebluff.com\/aacensus<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Includes blacks and mulattos in mortality schedules, 1870, free people of color, and slave census lists.<\/li>\n
  9. Early American Series<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ronald Vern Jackson, etal.\u00a0 Bountiful UT: \u00a0Accelerated Indexing Systems (AIS). 27+ volumes, “odds and ends” of inhabitant lists and hard-to-find records for each state–tax lists, petitioners lists, residents lists, church census records, pew rents, rent rolls–many are unique to specific areas and canbe used to locate ancestors and shorten search time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These nine Locator Indexes<\/strong> will get you started.\u00a0 Watch this blog for another\u00a0batch of indexes guaranteed to help you discover spelling variants of surnames on your pedigree.\u00a0 You will be amazed at what the spellings, variants, misspellings, and alternates can tell you about the origins and migrations of your ancestors!\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

    PS\u00a0 I am so much better today, that I almost feel like I can take on the genealogy world.\u00a0 My cough is almost gone.\u00a0 So I can laugh outloud without coughing!<\/p>\n

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