929.1 Ev2K ^^^'^ TMM Emm f\ mmmmi^ Oimiiai' Basanoaoi iiJJ.: LI 5 RARY OF THE U N I VERSITY or ILLINOIS evZh 1957 lUTfiiis mmrn. sphey '£u.'^ 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 Copyright, 1957 by THE EVERTON PUBUSHERS All Rights Reserved 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. 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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/handybookforgeneOOilever i 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 D3 Fl D4 C2 B3 D4 Butler E3 Calhoun B3 Chambers C4 Cherokee B4 Chilton C2 Dl El C3 B4 E3 Al E2 C3 E3 E3 Bl Al E3 CI 1818 1809 1832 1818 1818 1866 1819 1832 1832 1836 1868 1847 1812 1866 1866 1841 1867 1818 1832 1821 1866 18 41 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 A D LAUDERDALE COLBERT LIME- STONE FRANKLIN / MARION fvT WINSTON MADISONI JACKSON MORGAN / MAR- /qe KALB CULLMAN^ ETOWAH s 'BLOUNT FAYETTE! / PICKENS JEFFERSON ,/ TUSCALOOSA >r CLAY HALE SUMTER AUTAUGA LOWNDES ? V ELMORE / r MACON BULLOCK ^ >^ CONECUH S ^>- RUSSELL ESCAMBIA S COFFEE GENEVA '^>r BALDWIN 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- THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 B3 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 C2 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 37 24 10 10 64 Census Reports Available 1830-80 1830-80 1870-80 1850-80 1840-80 1850-80 1880 1840-80 1850-80 1870-80 1870-80 1840-80 1830-80 1830-80 1880 1830-80 1830-80 1830-80 1830-80 1840-80 1830-80 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 1850-80 1850-80 1830-80 1840-80 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. C D 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 11 12 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 CI 1853 740 1860-80 Alpine • B2 1864 25 1870-80 Amador B2 1854 9 1860-80 Butte A2 1850 65 1850-80 Calaveras B2 1850 10 1850-80 Colusa Al 1850 12 1850-80 Contra Costa Bl 1850 299 1860-80 Del Norte A3 1857 8 1860-80 El Dorado B2 1850 16 1850-80 Fresno C2 1856 277 1860-80 Glenn Al 1891 15 Humboldt B3 1853 69 1860-80 Imperial F4 1907 63 Inyo D3 1866 12 1870-80 Kern D2 1866 228 1870-80 Kings D2 1893 47 Lake Al 1861 11 1870-80 Lassen B4 1864 18 1870-80 Los Angeles E2 1850 4152 1850-80 Madera C2 1893 37 Marin Bl 1850 86 1850-80 Mariposa C2 1850 5 1850r80 Mendocino Al 1850 41 1850-80 Merced C2 1855 70 1860-80 Modoc A4 1874 10 1880 Mono C3 1861 2 1870-80 Monterey CI 1850 131 1850-80 Napa Bl 1850 47 1850-80 Nevada B2 1851 20 1860-80 Orange E3 1889 216 Placer B2 1851 42 1860-80 Plumas A2 1854 14 1860-80 Riverside F3 1893 170 Sacramento B2 1850 277 1850-80 San Benito CI 1874 14 1880 San Bernardino E3 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 County Map of California 13 '°Oc/^ <^t£•^^ '^Kf j' c, °Lus^ s'^^^A ''^^/NC .vt'^'^V '"Oo, '^^^Ma D ^f'*-, ^^«e «£'»/v. '""O/NO "'WCfi SlOf O'EGO "^PER,AL 14 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available San Diego F3 1850 557 1850-80 San Francisco Bl 1850 775 1860-80 San Joaquin B2 1850 201 1850-80 San Luis Obispo D2 1850 51 1850-80 San Mateo CI 1856 236 1860-80 Santa Barbara E2 1850 98 1850-80 Santa Clara CI 1850 291 1860-80 Santa Cruz CI 1850 67 1850-80 Shasta B3 1850 36 1850-80 Sierra A2 1852 2 1860-80 Siskiyou A3 1852 31 1860-80 Solano Bl 1850 105 1850-80 Sonoma Bl 1850 103 1850-80 Stginislaus C2 1854 127 1860-80 Sutter B2 1850 26 1850-80 Tehama Al 1856 19 1860-80 Trinity B3 1850 5 1860-80 Tulare D2 1852 149 1860-80 Tuolumne B2 1850 13 1850-80 Ventura E2 1872 115 1880 Yolo Bl 1850 41 1850-80 Yuba B2 1850 24 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 15 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 B2 1861 40 1880 Alamosa D4 11 Arapahoe C2 1861 52 1870 Archuleta E4 1885 3 Baca A4 1889 8 Bent B4 1874 9 Boulder C2 1859 48 1870 Chaffee D3 1879 7 Cheyenne A3 1889 3 Clear Creek D2 1859 3 1870 Conejos D4 1861 10 1880 Costilla C4 1859 6 1870 Crowley B3 5 Custer C3 1877 2 Delta E3 1883 17 Denver C2 416 1880 Dolores F4 1881 2 Douglas C2 1859 4 1870 Eagle D2 1883 4 Elbert B2 1874 4 El Paso C3 1859 75 1880 Fremont C3 1859 18 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 16 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS County Map of Colorado 1 1 2 1 J 1 4 Af ^ lO 1 1 ■ tr UJ u 8 a. 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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 21 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 D R h E 22 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 24 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- 26 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 B3 1824 57 1830-80 Baker A3 1861 6 1870-80 Bay El 1913 43 Benton C2 1843 1850-80 Bradford A3 1888 11 1870-80 Brevard C4 1844 24 1860r80 Broward E4 1913 84 Calhoun Dl 1836 8 1840-80 Charlotte D3 1921 4 Citrus B2 1887 6 Clay A3 1858 14 1860-80 Collier E3 1923 6 Columbia A2 1832 18 1840-80 Dade F4 1836 495 1840-80 DeSoto D3 1887 9 Dixie B2 1921 4 Duval A3 1822 304 1830-80 Escambia Fl 1824 113 1830-80 Flagler Franklin B3 D2 1917 1832 3 6 1840-80 Gadsden Dl 1823 36 1830-80 Gilchrist B2 1925 3 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 27 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 2 7 9 10 6 7 14 250 14 12 35 10 3 36 23 52 11 3 14 35 38 8 30 13 28 3 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 D 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 29 30 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 D3 1818 14 1820-80 Atkinson E3 1917 7 Bacon D3 1914 9 Baker El 1825 6 1830-80 Baldwin C2 1803 30 1830-80 Banks A2 1858 7 1860-80 Barrow B2 1914 13 Bartow Al 1832 27 1870-80 Ben Hill D2 1906 15 Berrien E2 1856 14 1860-80 Bibb C2 1822 114 1830-80 Bleckley C2 1912 9 Brantley E3 1920 6 Brooks E2 1851 18 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 31 Map Date Pop. Name Index Formed By M Bryan D4 1793 6 Bulloch C4 1796 25 Burke C3 1777 23 Butts B2 1825 9 Calhoun Dl 1854 9 Camden E4 1777 7 Campbell Bl 1828 Candler C3 1914 8 Carroll Bl 1826 34 Catoosa Al 1853 15 Charlton E3 1854 5 Chatham D4 1777 151 Chattahoochee CI 1854 12 Chattooga Al 1838 21 Cherokee A2 1831 21 Clarke B2 1801 37 Clay Dl 1854 6 Clayton B2 1858 23 Clinch E3 1850 6 Cobb Bl 1832 62 Coffee D3 24 Colquitt E2 1856 34 Columbia B3 1790 10 Cook E2 1918 12 Coweta Bl 1826 28 Crawford C2 1822 6 Crisp D2 1905 18 Dade Al 1837 7 Dawson A2 1857 4 Decatur El 1823 24 DeKalb B2 1822 136 Dodge D3 1870 18 Dooly D2 1821 14 Dougherty D2 1852 44 Douglas Bl 1870 12 Early El 1818 17 Echols E3 1858 2 Effingham C4 1777 9 Elbert B3 1790 19 Emanuel C3 1812 20 Evans D4 1914 7 Fannin A2 1854 15 Fayette B2 1821 8 Floyd Al 1832 63 Forsyth A2 1832 11 Franklin A2 1784 14 Fulton Bl 1853 474 Gilmer A2 1832 10 Glascock B3 1857 4 Glynn E4 1777 29 Gordon Al 1850 19 Grady E2 1905 19 Greene B3 1786 13 Gwinnett B2 1818 32 Habersham A2 1818 17 Hall A2 1818 40 Hancock B3 1793 11 Haralson Bl 1856 15 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 32 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Harris CI 1827 11 1830-80 Hart A3 1853 14 1860-80 Heard Bl 1830 7 1840-80 Henry B2 1821 21 1830-80 Houston C2 1821 16 1830-80 Irwin D2 1818 12 1820-80 Jackson B2 1796 19 1820-80 Jasper B2 1812 7 1820-80 Jeff Davis D2 1905 9 Jefferson C3 1796 19 1820-80 Jenkins C3 1905 10 Johnson C3 1858 10 1860-80 Jones 02 1807 8 1820-80 Lamar 02 1920 10 Lanier E3 1919 5 Laurens 03 1807 33 1820-80 Lee D2 1827 7 1830-80 Liberty D4 1777 8 1820-80 Lincoln B3 1796 6 1820-80 Long D4 1920 4 Lowndes E2 1835 35 1830-80 Lumpkin A2 1832 7 1840-80 McDuffie B3 1870 11 1880 Mcintosh D4 1793 6 1820-80 Macon 02 1837 14 1840-80 Madison B3 1811 12 1820-80 Marion 01 1827 7 1830-80 Meriwether 01 1827 21 1830-80 Miller El 1856 9 1860-80 Milton Bl 1857 1860-80 Mitchell E2 1857 23 1860-80 Monroe 02 1821 11 1830-80 Montgomery D3 1793 8 1820-80 Morgan B2 1807 12 1820-80 Murray Al 1832 11 1840-80 Muscogee 01 1826 118 1830-80 Newton B2 1821 20 1830-80 Oconee B2 1875 7 Ogelthorpe B3 1783 10 1820-80 Paulding Bl 1832 12 1840-80 Peach 02 1924 12 Pickens A2 1853 9 1860-80 Pierce E3 1857 11 1860-80 Pike 02 1822 8 1830-80 Polk Bl 1851 31 1860-80 Pulaski D2 1808 9 1820-80 Putnam B2 1807 8 1820-80 Quitman Dl 1858 3 1860-80 Rabun A2 1819 7 1830-80 Randolph Dl 1828 14 1830-80 Richmond B3 1777 109 1820-80 Rockdale B2 1870 8 Schley D2 1857 4 1860-80 Screven 04 1793 18 1820-80 Seminole El 1920 8 Spalding B2 1851 31 1860-80 Stephens A2 1905 17 Stewart Dl 1830 9 1840-80 Sumter D2 1831 24 1840-80 Talbot 01 1827 8 1830-80 Taliaferro B3 1825 5 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 33 Name Census Map Date fop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Tattnall D3 1801 16 1820-80 Taylor 02 1853 9 1860-80 Telfair D3 1807 13 1820-80 Terrell D2 1856 14 1860-80 Thomas E2 1825 34 1830-80 Tift D2 1905 23 Toombs D3 1905 17 Towns A2 1856 5 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 34 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Map Index Dale Formed Pop. By M Census Reports Available Treutlen C3 1917 7 Troup CI 1826 50 1830-80 Turner D2 1905 10 Twiggs C2 1809 8 1830-80 Union A2 1832 7 1840-80 Upson C2 1824 25 1830-80 Walker Al 1833 38 1840-80 Walton B2 1818 20 1820-80 Ware E3 1824 30 1830-80 Warren B3 1793 9 1820-80 Washington C3 1784 21 1820-80 Wayne D4 1803 14 1820-80 Webster Dl 1856 4 1860-80 Wheeler D3 1912 7 White A2 1857 6 1860-80 Whitfield Al 1851 34 1860-80 Wilcox D2 1857 10 1860-80 Wilkes B3 1777 12 1820-80 Wilkinson C2 1803 10 1820-80 Worth D2 1852 19 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 35 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 1870-80 Ada Dl 1864 71 Adams CI 1911 3 Alturas 1863 Bannock E4 1893 42 Bear Lake E4 1875 7 Benewah B3 1915 6 Bingham D4 1885 23 Blaine D2 1895 5 Boise CI 1863 2 Bonner A3 1907 15 Bonneville D4 1911 30 Boundary A3 1915 6 Butte D3 1917 3 Camas D2 1917 1 Canyon Dl 1891 54 Caribou D4 1919 6 Cassia E3 1879 15 Clark C4 1919 9 Clearwater A2 1911 8 Custer C2 1881 3 Elmore D2 1889 7 Franklin D4 1913 10 Fremont C4 1893 9 Gem CI 1915 9 Gooding D2 1913 11 Idaho B2 1862 11 Jefferson D4 1913 10 Jerome E2 1919 12 Kootenai* B3 1864 25 Latah** Al 1888 21 Lemhi C3 1869 6 Lewis Al 1911 4 Lincoln D2 1895 4 Madison D4 1913 9 Minidoka E3 1913 10 Nez Perce Al 1861 23 Oneida E3 1864 4 Owyhee El 1863 6 Payette CI 1917 12 Power E3 1913 4 Shoshone B4 1861 23 Teton D4 1915 3 1870-80 1870-80 1870-80 1870-80 1870-80 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)." 37 38 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 CI 1825 65 1830-80 Alexander E3 1819 20 1820-80 Bond D2 1817 14 1820-80 Boone A3 1837 17 1840-80 Brown C2 1839 7 1840-80 Bureau B2 1837 38 1840-80 Calhoun CI 1825 7 1830-80 Carroll A2 1839 19 1840-80 Cass C2 1837 15 1840-80 Champaign C3 1833 106 1840-80 Christian C3 1839 39 1840-80 Clark C4 1819 17 1820-80 Clay D3 1824 17 1830-80 Clinton D2 1824 23 1830-80 Coles C3 1830 40 1840-80 Cook A4 1831 4508 1840-80 Crawford D4 1815 21 1820-80 Cumberland C3 1843 10 1850-80 Dane 1839 DeKalb A3 1837 41 1840-80 DeWitt A3 1839 17 1840-80 Douglas C3 1859 17 1860-80 DuPage A3 1839 155 1840-80 Edgar C4 1823 23 1830-80 Edwards D3 1814 9 1820-80 Effingham D3 1831 22 1840-80 Fayette D3 1821 25 1830-80 Ford B3 1859 16 1860-80 Franklin E3 1818 49 1820-80 Fulton B2 1823 44 1830-80 Gallatin E3 1812 10 1830-80 Greene C2 1821 19 1830-80 Grundy B3 1841 19 1850-80 Hamilton D3 1821 12 1830-80 Hancock Bl 1825 26 1830-80 Hardin E3 1839 8 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 39 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 40 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 B 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 41 42 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Bartholomew C3 1821 36 1830-80 Benton B2 1840 11 1840-80 Blackford B3 1834 14 1840-80 Boone B2 1831 24 1830-80 Brown C2 1836 6 1840-80 Carroll B2 1828 16 1830-80 Cass B7 1828 39 1830-80 Clark D3 1801 48 1820-80 Clay C2 1825 24 1830-80 Clinton B2 1830 30 1830-80 Crawford D2 1818 9 1820-80 Daviess C2 1817 27 1830-80 Dearborn C3 1803 25 1820-80 Decatur C3 1821 18 1830-80 DeKalb A3 1836 26 1840-80 Delaware B3 1828 90 1820-80 Dubois D2 1817 24 1820-80 Elkhart A3 1830 85 1830-80 Fayette C3 1819 23 1820-80 Floyd D3 1819 44 1820-80 Fountain B2 1826 18 1830-80 Franklin C3 1811 16 1820-80 Fulton A2 1836 17 1840-80 Gibson Dl 1813 31 1820-80 Grant B3 1831 62 1840-80 Greene C2 1820 28 1830-80 Hamilton B2 1823 28 1830-80 Hancock B3 1828 20 1830-80 Harrison D2 1809 18 1820-80 IJendricks C2 1824 25 1830-80 Henry B3 1822 46 1830-80 Howard B2 1844 54 1850-80 Huntington I B3 1834 31 1840-80 Jackson C2 1815 28 1820-80 Jasper A2 1838 17 1840-80 Jay B3 1837 23 1840-80 Jefferson C3 1810 22 1820-80 Jennings C3 1816 15 1820-80 Johnson C2 1822 26 1830-80 Knox C2 1787 43 1820-80 Kosciusko A3 1835 33 1840-80 Lagrange A3 1832 15 1840-80 Lake A2 1837 368 1840-80 LaPorte A2 1832 77 1840-80 Lawrence C2 1818 34 1820-80 Madison B3 1823 104 1830-80 Marion C2 1821 552 1830-80 Marshall A2 1836 29 1840-80 Martin C2 1820 11 1820-80 Miami B2 1834 28 1840-80 Monroe C2 1818 50 1820-80 Montgomery B2 1823 29 1830-80 Morgan C2 1822 24 1830-80 Newton A2 1857 11 1860-80 Noble A3 1836 25 1840-80 Ohio C3 1844 4 1850-80 Orange D2 1816 17 1820-80 Owen C2 1818 12 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 43 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 B 44 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 B2 1824 20 1830-80 Vigo C2 1818 105 1820-80 Wabash B3 1835 29 1840-80 Warren B2 1825 9 1830-80 Warrick D2 1813 22 1820-80 Washington D2 1813 17 1820-80 Wayne B3 1810 69 1820-80 Wells B3 1837 20 1840-80 White B2 1834 18 1840-80 Whitley A3 1828 19 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 45 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 C2 1853 12 1860-80 Adams C2 1853 9 1860-80 Allamakee A4 1851 16 1850-80 Appanoose C3 1846 20 1850-80 Audubon B2 1855 12 1860-80 Benton B3 1846 23 1850-80 Black Hawk B3 1843 100 1850-80 Boone B2 1846 28 1850-80 Bremer A3 1851 19 1860-80 Buchanan B3 1848 22 1850-80 Buena Vista Al 1859 21 1860-80 Butler A3 1853 17 1860-80 Calhoun B2 1855 17 1860-80 Carroll B2 1854 23 1860-80 Cass CI 1853 19 1860-80 Cedar B4 1838 17 1840-80 Cerro Gordo A3 1855 46 1860-80 Cherokee Al 1857 19 1860-80 Chickasaw A3 1855 15 1860-80 Clarke C2 1850 9 1850-80 Clay Al 1858 18 1850-80 Clayton A4 1837 23 1840-80 Clinton B4 1839 50 1840-80 Crawford Bl 1855 20 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 46 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Dallas B2 1847 24 1850-80 Davis C3 1844 10 1850-80 Decatur C2 1850 13 1850-80 Delaware B4 1837 18 1840-80 Des Moines C4 1836 42 1840-80 Dickinson Al 1857 13 1860-80 Dubuque B4 1836 71 1840-80 Emmett A2 1859 14 1860-80 Fayette A3 1850 28 1850-80 Floyd A3 1854 22 1860-80 Franklin A3 1855 16 1860-80 Fremont CI 1850 12 1850-80 Greene B2 1854 16 1860-80 Grundy B3 1856 14 1860-80 Guthrie B2 1851 15 1860-80 Hamilton B2 1856 20 1860-80 Hancock A2 1857 15 1860-80 Hardin B3 1853 22 1860-80 Harrison Bl 1853 20 1860-80 Henry C4 1836 19 1840-80 Howard A3 1855 13 1860-80 Humboldt A2 1857 13 1860-SO Ida Bl 1858 11 1860-80 Iowa B3 1847 16 1850-80 Jackson B4 1837 19 1840-80 Jasper B3 1845 32 1850-80 Jefferson C3 1839 16 1840-80 Johnson B4 1838 45 1840-80 Jones B4 1837 19 1840-80 Keokuk C3 1844 17 1850-80 Kossuth A2 1855 26 1860-80 Lee C4 1843 43 1840-80 Linn B4 1837 104 1840-80 Louisa C4 1837 11 1840-80 Lucas C2 1849 12 1850-80 Lyon Al 1872 15 1870-80 Madison C2 1850 13 1850-80 Mahaska C3 1844 25 1850-80 Marion C3 1845 26 1850-80 Marshall B3 1849 36 1850-80 Mills CI 1851 14 1860-80 Mitchell A3 1854 14 1860-80 Monona Bl 1854 16 1860-80 Monroe C3 1845 12 1850-80 Montgomery CI 1851 16 1860-80 Muscatine A4 1837 32 1840-80 O'Brien Al 1860 19 1860-80 Osceola Al 1872 10 1870-80 Page CI 1850 24 1850-80 Palo Alto A2 1858 16 1860-80 Plymouth Al 1858 23 1869-80 Pocahontas A2 1859 15 1860-80 Polk B2 1836 226 1850-80 Pottawattamie 01 1848 70 1850-80 Poweshiek B3 1848 19 1850-80 Ringgold C2 1855 10 1860-80 Sac Bl 1857 18 1860-80 Scott B4 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 IOWA 47 Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Shelby Bl 1853 16 1860-80 Sioux Al 1860 26 1860-80 Story B2 1853 44 1860-80 Tama B3 1852 22 1850-80 Taylor C2 1851 12 1850-80 Union C2 1855 16 1860-80 Van Buren C3 1836 11 1840-80 Wapello C3 1844 47 1850-80 Warren C2 1846 18 1850-80 Washington C4 1837 20 1840-80 Wayne C2 1850 12 1850-80 Webster B2 1852 44 1860-80 Winnebago A2 1857 13 1860-80 Winneshiek A3 1851 22 1850-80 Woodbury Bl 1857 104 1860-80 Worth A3 1857 11 1860-80 Wright A2 1855 20 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 49 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 A3 1855 18 1860-80 Anderson A3 1855 10 1860-80 Atchison A2 1855 21 1860-80 Barber D4 1873 9 1880 Barton D2 1872 30 1870-80 Bourbon A3 1855 19 1860-80 Brown Al 1855 15 1860-80 Butler B3 1855 31 1860-80 Chase B3 1859 5 1860-80 Chautauqua B4 1875 7 1880 Cherokee A4 1873 25 1870-80 Cheyenne Fl 1875 6 1880 Clark E4 1873 4 1880 Clay C2 1856 12 1860-80 Cloud C2 1860 16 1870-80 Coffey * B3 1875 10 1860-80 Comanche D4 1875 4 1880 Cowley B4 1867 37 1870-80 Crawford A3 1867 40 1870-80 Davis 1876 Decatur El 1873 6 1880 Dickinson C2 1855 21 1860-80 Doniphan Al 1855 10 1860-80 Douglas A2 1855 34 1860-80 Edwards D3 1875 6 1880 Elk B3 1875 7 1880 Ellis D2 1865 19 1870-80 Ellsworth C2 1867 8 1870-80 Finney F3 1884 15 Ford E3 1873 20 1880 Franklin A2 1856 20 1860-80 Geary B2 1889 22 Gove E2 1880 4 Graham E2 1881 5 Grant F3 1887 5 Gray E3 1887 5 Greeley F2 1887 2 Greenwood B3 1855 14 1860-80 Hamilton F3 1878 4 Harper C4 1879 10 Harvey C3 1872 22 1880 Haskell F3 1887 3 Hodgeman E3 1879 3 Jackson B2 1855 11 1860-80 Jefferson A2 1855 11 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 50 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Repoi ts Name Index Formed By M Available Jewell CI 1870 10 1870-80 Johnson A2 1855 63 1860-80 Kearny F3 1887 3 Kingman C3 1874 10 1880 Kiowa D3 1886 5 Parent County County Seat Mitchell Mankato Original county Olathe Finney Lakin Unorganized Territory Kingman Comanche, Edwards Greensburg KANSAS 51 Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Labette A4 1867 29 1870-80 Lane E2 1877 3 Leavenworth A2 1855 42 1860-80 Lincoln C2 1870 7 1870-80 Linn A3 1855 10 1860-80 Logan F2 1881 4 Lyon B2 1862 27 1870-80 McPherson C3 1870 24 1870-80 Madison 1860 Marion C3 1860 16 1860-80 Marshall Bl 1855 18 1860-80 Meade E4 1873 6 1880 Miami A2 1855 20 1870-80 Mitchell C2 1870 10 1870-80 Montgomerj rB4 1869 46 1870-80 Morris B2 1858 8 1860-80 Morton F4 1881 3 1870-80 Nemaha Bl 1855 14 1860-80 Neosho A3 1866 20 1870-80 Ness E2 1873 6 1880 Norton Dl 1872 9 1880 Osage B2 1864 13 1860-80 Osborne D2 1871 9 1870-80 Ottawa C2 1866 7 1870-80 Pawnee D3 1872 11 1880 Phillips Dl 1872 9 1880 Pottawatomie B2 1857 12 1860-80 Pratt D3 1879 12 1880 Rawlins E4 1873 6 1880 Reno C3 1881 54 Republic CI 1868 11 1870-80 Rice C3 1871 16 1870-80 Riley B2 1871 33 1860-80 Rooks D2 1872 9 1880 Rush D2 1874 7 1880 Russell D2 1872 13 1870-80 Saline C2 1855 33 1870-80 Scott F2 1873 5 1880 Sedgwick C3 1872 222 1870-80 Seward F4 1873 10 1880 Shawnee B2 1855 105 1860-80 Sheridan E2 1880 5 Sherman F2 1873 7 1880 Smith Dl 1872 9 1880 Stafford D3 1870 9 1880 Stanton F3 1887 2 Stevens F4 1887 5 Sumner C4 1871 24 1870-80 Thomas F2 1873 8 1880 Trego E2 1879 6 Wabaunsee B2 1871 7 1860-80 Wallace F2 1865 3 1870-80 Washington CI 1856 13 1860-80 Wichita F2 1873 3 Wilson B3 1855 15 1860-80 Woodson B3 1855 7 1860-80 Wyandotte A2 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. UKIVLRSITY OF ILLUMOIS LIBRARY 52 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 55 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 57 9 7 15 1780 101 1798 12 1799 54 26 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 1810-80 1860-80 1850-80 1810-80 1840-80 1810-80 1810-80 1810-80 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 56 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Jessamine C2 1798 12 1810-80 Johnson A2 1843 24 1850-80 Kenton Bl 1840 104 1840-80 Knott A2 1884 20 Knox B3 1799 30 1810-80 Larue C2 1843 10 1850-80 Laurel B3 1825 26 1830-80 Lawrence A2 1821 14 1830-80 Lee B2 1870 9 1870-80 Leslie B2 1878 16 1880 Letcher A3 1842 40 1850-80 Lewis Bl 1806 14 1810-80 Lincoln C2 1780 19 1810-80 Livingstone E2 1798 7 1810-80 Logan D3 1792 22 1810-80 Lyon E3 1854 7 1860-80 McCracken F3 1824 49 1830-08 McCreary B3 1912 17 McLean Dl 1854 10 1860-80 Madison B2 1785 31 1810-80 Magoffin A2 1860 14 1860-80 Marion C2 1834 17 1840-80 Marshall E3 1842 16 1850-80 Martin A2 1870 12 1880 Mason Bl 1788 18 1810-80 Meade Dl 1823 9 1830-80 Menifee B2 1869 5 1870-80 Mercer C2 1785 15 1810-80 Metcalfe C3 1860 10 1860-80 Monroe C3 1820 14 1820-80 Montgomery B2 1796 13 1810-80 Morgan B2 1822 14 1830-80 Muhlenberg D3 1798 33 1810-80 Nelson C2 1784 20 1810-80 Nicholas Bl 1799 8 1810-80 Ohio Dl 1819 21 1810-80 Oldham CI 1823 11 1830-80 Owen CI 1819 10 1820-80 Owsley B2 1843 7 1850-80 Pendleton Bl 1798 10 1810-80 Perry B2 1820 47 1830-80 Pike A2 1821 81 1830-80 Powell B2 1852 7 1860-80 Pulaski C3 1798 38 1810-80 Robertson Bl 1867 3 1870-80 Rockcastle B2 1810 14 1810-80 Rowan B2 1856 13 1860-80 Russell C3 1825 14 1830-80 Scott C2 1792 15 1810-80 Shelby C2 1792 18 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 KENTUCKY 57 County Map of Kentucky 1 • ^ K ^ * A jXfl^i - \ - f i/?>l/^ ° /^'-^''^■"^-^^A B { { C ^ A,V\ \>L« -J ^"^C^^/^ yV V*^ OvO v*^ ^ '^^^ri^ 5 h \i ir^^ fc L r t r^ 1 D ^r-> ^V I V, A./ U ^ J i\ V M A J-~£- \ E f z c^'^\<^ty^\ a: 1 \ = ^ KifVr o\ ^ ju^ 1 marA shallV CALLO-^ WAY m^ .<^ r '" ^ f %mi(. VLV'vj^/ ■ \ F \ 58 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 59 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 D3 Allen D3 Ascension C3 Assumption C4 Avoyelles C2 Beauregard E3 Bienville Dl Bossier El Caddo El Calcasieu E3 Caldwell D2 Cameron D4 Catahoula C2 Claiborne Dl Concordia C2 De Soto E2 East Baton Rouge C3 East Carroll CI East Feliciana C3 Evangeline D3 Franklin CI Grant D2 Iberia C3 Iberville C3 Jackson Dl Jefferson B4 Jefferson Davis D3 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 C3 1823 58 1830-80 Lafourche B4 1807 42 1810-80 LaSalle D2 1910 13 Lincoln Dl 1873 26 1880 Livingston B3 1832 20 1840-80 Madison CI 1848 17 1840-80 Morehouse CI 1844 32 1850-80 Natchitoches D2 1863 38 1810-80 Orleans B4 1718 570 1810-80 Ouachita Dl 1807 75 1810-80 LOUISIANA 61 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 65 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 66 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 A2 1839 96 1840-80 Cumberland Dl 1760 169 1850-80 Franklin CI 1838 21 1790-80 Hancock C3 1789 32 1800-80 Kennebec C2 1799 84 1800-80 Knox C2 1860 28 18G0-80 Lincoln D2 1760 18 1790-80 Oxford* CI 1805 44 1810-80 Penobscot B3 1816 108 1820-80 Piscataquis B2 1838 19 1840-80 Sagadahoc D2 1854 21 1860-80 Somerset B2 1809 40 1810-80 Waldo C2 1827 22 1830 80 Washington C3 1789 35 1790-80 York** (shire) Dl 1638 94 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 69 Map Name Index Allegany E4 Anne Arundel C2 Baltimore CI Baltimore City* C2 Calvert C3 Caroline B3 Carroll Dl Cecil Bl Charles D3 Dorchester B3 Frederick Dl Garrett F4 Harford CI Howard D2 Kent B2 Montgomery D2 Prince Georges D3 Queen Annes B2 Saint Mary' s C4 Somerset B4 Talbot B3 Washington El Wicomico B4 Worcester A4 *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 73 County Map of Massachusetts 74 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 C3 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- 75 76 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 D4 1869 6 1860-80 Alger B2 1885 10 Allegan F2 1835 47 1840-80 Alpena D4 1857 22 1860-80 Antrim D3 1843 11 1860-80 Arenac D4 1883 10 Baraga Bl 1875 8 1880 Barry F3 1839 26 1840-80 Bay E3 1857 88 1860-80 Benzie D2 1869 8 1870-80 Berrien F2 1829 116 1830-80 Branch F3 1829 30 1840-80 Calhoun F3 1829 121 1840-80 Cass F2 1829 28 1830-80 Charlevoix C3 1869 13 1870-80 Cheboygan C3 1840 14 I860- SO Chippewa B3 1826 29 1830-80 Clare D3 1871 10 1870-80 Clinton E3 1839 31 1850-80 Crawford D3 1818 4 1820-80 Delta C2 1861 33 1860-80 Des Moines 1834 Dickinson Bl 1891 25 Eaton F3 1829 -1837 40 1840-80 Emmett C3 1853 17 1860-80 Genesee E4 1836 271 1840-80 Gladwin D3 1855 9 1860-80 Gogebic A3 1881 27 Grand Travers D2 1851 29 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 77 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 1830-80 1850-80 1850-80 1840-80 1850-80 1830-80 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 79 80 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Map Index Date Formed Pop. By ^ Becker C2 1871 25 Beltrami B2 1870 25 Benton D2 1849 16 Big Stone El 1862 10 Blue Earth F2 1853 38 Brown F2 1855 26 Carlton D3 25 Carver E3 1855 18 Cass C2 1851 19 Chippewa El 1869 17 Chisago D3 1851 13 Clay CI 1862 30 Clearwater C2 1903 10 Cook A3 1875 3 Cottonwood F2 16 Crow Wing D2 1881 31 Dakota E3 1849 49 Dodge F3 1855 13 Douglas D2 1881 21 Faribault F2 1855 24 Fillmore F4 1853 24 Freeborn F3 1856 35 Goodhue E3 1853 32 Grant Dl 1873 10 Hennepin E3 1851 677 Houston F4 1854 14 Hubbard C2 1883 11 Isanti D3 1857 12 Itasca C3 1851 33 Jackson F2 1869 16 Kanabec D3 1881 9 Kandiyohi E2 29 Kittson Bl 1879 10 Koochiching B3 1907 17 Lac Qui Parle El 1863 15 Lake A3 1855 8 Lake of the Woods B2 5 Le Sueur E3 1853 19 Lincoln El 1873 10 Lyon El 1871 22 McLeod E2 1883 22 Mahnomen CI 1878 7 Marshall Bl 1878 16 Martin F2 1865 26 Meeker E2 19 Mille Lacs D3 1905 15 Morrison D2 1883 26 Mower F3 1875 42 Murray Fl 1872 15 Nicollet E2 1853 21 Nobles Fl 1871 22 Norman CI 1881 13 Olmsted F3 1855 48 Otter Tail Dl 51 Pennington Bl 1910 13 Pine D3 1857 18 Pipestone Fl 1879 14 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 81 County Map of Minnesota 82 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 83 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 84 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 Jefferson El A4 El C3 A3 Bl B3 B2 B3 Choctaw C3 Claiborne Dl Clarke D4 Clay B4 A2 D2 E3 A2 E3 El F4 E4 B2 Hancock F3 Harrison F3 Hinds D2 Holmes C2 Humphreys C2 CI A4 F4 D3 El 1799 1870 1809 1833 1870 1836 1852 1833 1836 1836 1871 1823 1819 1836 1906 1809 1910 1811 1870 32 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 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 85 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 1830-80 1820-80 1840-80 1820-80 1880 1840-80 1840-80 1840-80 1840-80 1840-80 1820-80 1820-80 1840-80 1870-80 1880 1830-80 1840-80 1880 1830-80 1840-80 1850-80 1840-80 1880 1840-80 1840-80 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 D 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, 87 88 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 89 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) County Map of Missouri ^ •^--^^ ' 2 ' 3 • 4 } Sr^^T^^ V^^^^ \ l^'i-.^:::::^ kvlscor J *V ^L \ 1 ^^/— -— _^/"^^~~ 7 1 — ^^-~~^ ^'*'^o /clarIV \v!ifc^^ ^9 ^^ L^ / / '/. / I ~— ~ / '-Evvis 1 ^~S§>H~~^ B Y^./cc.77 ^-71 0.^^0,1^^''''°'' k — r — /~"~~\ ^>UX^\^^^^^^ / \ j^°''^OE 1 "^"-Ls^X /^^CKso„/'-^''^verTE/ ^^"-iNg ^^^^./^^^^-T^^]^ ^'ke^^ - 1 Cass / "'°'^'^soN /p^ / COOPER \ ""V -TLo^^ ''^L,''''^^°^'' \ / ^^ — / r~-~-'~~— -/ W*^^^ /^( >.— — iL— -v''^'"'^w ^^^-^^^ c / SATES / "'^'""M l^o^a\^''°'^UJ^^l'^^ 1 J — — ^-7^^''^°'"/ *^^rL>._i^°s^GE / 0^"^/ ^^^^^^^'^•C'CJ 1]"' c.^.Tf^^j" — y'''^^^r^ — i/ / "''^''^'-'^ /\ y 1 ''""°'^r-T_V^ \ f - /~^^/^°'^^ / \ / \ V-^x L^^W^^W '°'"'^ r^^ / ''^^^o^\_/ P^^L^i^X/ ^- V '"^^ / " U^ / '—^~-r~' — ^T-— .^^ 1 1 °^'^^ ^/"i'roZ^i ^'^ s^^^e/ ^^ f -'■*spe^ r"~ ~-i 1 j?-1 j 1 r— -i ^-p— S^O' ^ERfjy^^ D f_^ / ^c>7 '^''eE^g^ 7 ^-^^ / / ^— 1 ^S ■» / /% T^— -r~^^v», 1 rz^^u^^ '''" /[\ iJ-jxiA^^ t~~~-~.^..__ / " 7 7 / ^ — ~"^-r— ~.^ / ^'^•*^"voN \. ^J" / Tc)"^ /'^'■"^ ^ r'^°^ ^""''^ / ^^/^~^-~r^''^ 7""^ / 1^ '^'^''' C _rVi ^ *- 1 ^ / L^^ / TANey / """"^ — V / ~~~~~7 ^'*'*'"^'' \______^/^^''~'^ V'^°'"'\jL ^^^^^^^^■^i^^»_L / / oe^D I'^^^ellI — T— -^^ 7 T \ J3^^^V ^^^^■^^^^^^^ '^ / ( °''EGON / ^ 7 Y^OOOaroI y\ J ""^^^"^-i ,^^ / / '""LEV [ ButlerX / V\^r;>\ ^^^^"^^^^^^ S J- r—~~J o^^ V '^ E '\U^9^ vf/^^ CiS^ MISSOURI 93 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) 94 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 95 Montana County Histories (Population fi Map Index E4 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 C3 E3 Dl E3 E2 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 Sweet Grass D3 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 14 31 22 2 10 1 3 14 4 3 14 25 2 9 3 6 2 2 35 5 12 1 6 6 3 6 2 13 10 10 7 7 7 48 5 4 7 7 1 11 3 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 1860 census see Nebraska, vol. 1, (unorganized 96 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS County Map of Montana B z 1 ^ d ^ r r^^ Kll i l\ r ^ J s l^"""^ 1 ■ in i r «-rJ H < J r ^ Ui I L— -. ' J £ > z 3 __J Ill 1 S ^ L| o f . (t i . L <. ■ — r^ t r 8 J ^ J r. f 1 i: / K 1 <** r * — \ o /I 1 I \ 1-^ \ ■ I ( ^^■'■■•V^**^ \X^ J L 1 I 2 I 3 I 1 ^ ^— >- -■ y- ^ }j \1 — - i S 1 ] 3 (^ f-'-'-^ ~ ^ jk ■ ) w "^■^■^ ^ 3 1 uiriSf m £ 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 C3 1870 29 1870-80 Antelope B2 1875 12 1880 Arthur E2 1888 1 Banner F2 1888 1 Blaine D2 1885 1 Boone B2 1871 11 1880 Box Butte F2 1886 12 Boyd CI 1890 5 Brown D2 1883 5 Buffalo C3 1857 25 1860-80 Burt A2 1855 12 1860-80 Butler B3 1857 11 1860-80 Cass A3 1854 16 1860-80 Cedar Bl 1855 14 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 97 98 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Chase E3 1873 5 1880 Cherry E2 1883 8 Cheyenne F3 1867 12 1870-80 Clay B3 1857 9 1860-80 Colfax B2 1865 10 1870-80 Cuming B2 1860 13 1860-80 Custer D3 1875 19 1880 Dakota A2 1854 10 1860-80 Dawes Fl 1885 10 Dawson D3 1871 19 1860-80 Deuel E3 1888 3 Dixon B2 1853 9 1860-80 Dodge B2 1855 26 1860-80 Douglas A3 1854 281 1860-80 Dundy E4 1873 4 1880 Fillmore B3 1865 10 1860-80 Franklin C4 1867 7 1870-80 Frontier D3 1872 5 1880 Furnas D4 1877 9 1880 Gage A4 1855 28 1860-80 Garden E2 1887 4 Garfield C2 1884 3 Gosper D4 1877 3 1880 Grant E2 1887 1 Greeley C2 1875 6 1880 Hall C3 1855 32 1860-80 Hamilton B3 1870 9 1870-80 Harlan C4 1871 7 1880 Hayes D3 1873 2 1880 Hitchcock D4 1873 6 1880 Holt C2 1876 15 1880 Hooker E2 1889 1 Howard C3 1871 7 1880 Jefferson B4 1872 14 1870-80 Johnson A3 1854 7 1860-80 Kearney C3 1854 6 1860-80 Keith E3 1873 7 1880 Keya Paha Dl 1884 2 Kimball F3 1888 4 Knox Bl 1854 15 1860-80 Lancaster A3 1854 120. 1860-80 Lincoln D3 1867 27 1870-80 Logan D2 1885 1 Loup C2 1883 1 McPherson D2 1887 1 Madison B2 1865 24 1860-80 Merrick B3 1854 9 1860-80 Morrill F2 1887 8 Nance B3 1879 7 Nemaha A3 1855 11 1860-80 Nuckolls B4 1871 10 1860-80 Otoe A3 1854 17 1860-80 Pawnee A4 1854 7 1860-80 Perkins E3 1887 7 Phelps C3 1873 9 1880 Pierce B2 1867 9 1870-80 Platte B2 1854 20 1860-80 Polk B3 1854 8 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 99 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 B PERSHING CHURCHILL fws^ LYON DOUGLAS ( ESMERALDA WHITE PINE t 102 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, 104 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 48 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 B D 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 D2 1837 132 1840-80 Bergen A3 1682 539 1830-80 Burlington D2 1682 136 1830-80 Camden D2 1844 301 1850-80 Cape May E2 1692 37 1830-80 Cumberland E2 1753 49 1830-80 Essex B3 1861-2 906 1830-80 Gloucester D2 1681-2 92 1830-80 Hudson E3 1840 647 1840-80 Hunterdon B2 1692 43 1830-80 Mercer C2 1838 230 1840-80 Middlesex B3 1682 265 1830-80 Monmouth C3 1682 225 1830-80 Morris B2 1738 164 1830-80 Ocean C3 1850 57 1850-80 Passaic A3 1837 337 1840-80 Salem Dl 1681-2 50 1830-80 Somerset B2 1688 99 1830-80 Sussex A2 1753 34 1830-80 Union B3 1857 398 1860-80 Warren B2 1824 54 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 B2 1852 146 Catron CI 1921 4 Chaves C3 1887 41 Colfax A3 1869 17 Curry B4 1909 23 De Baca C3 1917 3 Dona Ana D2 1852 40 Eddy D4 1887 41 Grant Dl 1868 22 Guadalupe B3 1905 7 Harding A4 1921 3 Hidalgo Dl 1920 5 Lea D4 1917 31 Lincoln C3 1880 7 Los Alamos B2 1949 10 Luna D2 1901 9 McKinley Bl 1899 27 Mora A3 1859 9 Otero D3 1899 15 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 110 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Quay B4 1903 14 Rio Arriba A2 1852 25 1850-80 Roosevelt C4 1903 16 Sandoval B2 1903 12 San Juan Al 1887 18 San Miguel B3 1852 27 1850-80 Santa Fe B3 1852 38 1860-80 Sierra C2 1884 7 Socorro 02 1852 10 1860-80 Taos A3 1852 17 1850-80 Torrance B3 1903 8 Union A4 1895 7 Valencia Bl 1852 22 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 B 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 111 112 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 B3 1683 239 1790-80 Allegany D2 1806 44 1810-80 Bronx B4 1914 1451 Broome C3 1806 185 1810-80 Cattaraugus E2 1808 78 1810-80 Cayuga C2 1799 70 1800-80 Chautauqua E2 1808 135 1810-80 Chemung D2 1836 87 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 114 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 El 1847 15 1850-80 Alleghany El 1859 8 1860-80 Anson D2 1750 27 1790-80 Ashe El 1799 22 1800-80 Avery C3 1911 13 Bath 1696 Beaufort B2 1712 37 1790-80 Bertie Bl 1722 26 1790-80 Bladen C3 1734 30 1790-80 Brunswick C3 1764 19 1790-80 Buncombe D4 1791 124 1800-80 Burke C4 1777 46 1790-80 Bute 1764 Cabarrus E2 1792 64 1800-80 Caldwell El 1841 43 1850-80 Camden Al 1777 5 1790-80 Cartaret B2 1722 23 1790-80 Caswell Dl 1777 21 1800-80 Catawba E2 1842 62 1850-80 Chatham D2 1771 25 1790-80 Cherokee E4 1839 18 1840-80 Chowan Bl 1670 13 1790-80 Clay E4 1861 6 1870-80 Cleveland E2 1841 64 1850-80 Columbus C3 1808 61 1810-80 Craven B2 1712 49 *1790-80 Cumberlanc C2 1754 96 1790-80 Currituck Al 1670 6 **1790-S0 Dare Al 1870 5 1870-80 Davidson Dl 1822 62 1830-80 Davie El 1836 15 1840-80 Dobbs 1758 Duplin B2 1750 41 1790-80 Durham CI 1881 102 Edgecombe Bl 1741 52 1790-80 Forsyth Dl 1849 146 1850-80 Franklin CI 1779 31 **1800-80 Gaston E2 1846 111 1850-80 Gates Bl 1779 10 1800-80 Glasgow 1791 Graham E4 1872 7 1800 Granville CI 1746 32 1800-80 Greene B2 1791 18 * 1800-80 Guilford Dl 1771 191 1790-80 Halifax Bl 1758 58 1790-80 Harnett C2 1855 48 1860-80 Haywood D4 1808 38 1810-80 Henderson D4 1838 31 1840-80 Hertford Bl 1759 21 1790-80 Hoke C2 1911 16 Hyde A2 1712 6 1790-80 Iredell El 1788 56 1790-80 Jackson D4 1851 19 1860-80 Johnston C2 1746 66 1790-80 Jones B2 1778 11 1790-80 Lee C2 1907 24 Lenoir B2 1791 46 1800-80 Lincoln E2 1779 27 1790-80 Macon E4 1728 16 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 118 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 NORTH CAROLINA 119 Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Montgomery D2 1779 17 **1790-80 Moore D2 1784 33 1790-80 Nash CI 1777 60 1790-80 New Hanover B3 1729 63 *1790-80 Northampton Bl 1741 28 1790-80 Onslow B2 1734 42 1790-80 Orange CI 1752 34 1800-80 Pamlico B2 1872 10 1880 Pasquotank Al 1670 24 1790-80 Pender B3 1875 18 1880 Perquimans Al 1670 10 1790-80 Person CI 1791 24 1800-80 Pitt B2 1760 64 1790-80 Polk D4 1855 12 1860-80 Randolph C2 1779 51 ** 1790-80 Richmond D2 1779 40 1790-80 Robeson C3 1787 88 1790-80 Rockingham Dl 1785 65 1790-80 Rowan E2 1753 75 1790-80 Rutherford D4 1779 75 1790-80 Sampson D2 1784 50 1790-80 Scotland D2 1899 26 Stanly D2 1841 37 1850-80 Stokes Dl 1789 22 1790-80 Surry El 1771 46 1790-80 Swain E4 1871 10 1880 Transylvania D4 1861 15 1870-80 Tyrrell Al 1729 5 1790-80 Union E2 1842 42 1850-80 Vance CI 1881 32 Wake* CI 1771 136 ** 1790-80 Warren CI 1779 24 1790-80 Washington Bl 1799 13 1800-80 Watauga El 1849 18 1850-80 Wayne C2 1779 64 1790-80 Wilkes El 1777 45 1790-80 Wilson B2 1855 55 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 120 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 E4 1907 5 Barnes B3 1875 17 1880 Benson C2 1883 11 Billings F3 1879 2 1880 Bottineau Dl 1873 12 1884 Bowman F4 1883 4 Burke El 1910 7 Burleigh D3 1873 26 1800 Cass A3 1873 59 1880 Cavalier Bl 1873 12 1880 Dickey B4 1881 9 Divide Fl 1910 6 Dunn E3 1883 7 Eddy B2 1885 5 Emmons C4 1879 10 1880 Foster B3 1873 5 1880 Golden Valley F3 1912 3 Grand Forks A2 1879 39 1880 Grant E4 1916 7 Griggs B3 1881 5 Hettinger E4 1883 7 Kidder C3 1873 6 1880 LaMoure B4 1873 9 1880 Logan C4 1873 6 1880 McHenry D2 1873 13 1880 Mcintosh C4 1883 8 McKenzie F2 1883 7 McLean D2 1883 19 Mercer E3 1875 9 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 NORTH DAKOTA 121 County Map of North Dakota 4 1 « 2 ' 3 ' _y a 1 1^1^*^^ z 1 _^^^i^^m ^^0Kamm ^ 1 A — J < q: t- if) < 1 1 < z H h 5 I ir li. bJ -1 8 bJ - Q. J < bJ 1- — bJ < q: S C z C3 Z < (D B hJ < > < 1 z C bJ (T 3 2 > bl O 5 ^ ir Z < 5 -. ' > t;; S 2 - _^ £ 1- 3 h z — -J U) z < I w Z lU m -i -i q: °, u C 1- u -J Ui ■ ^' ^ ^ : o: £ — z V) z s I 2 1 — ' > bJ iTi 2 bJ 3 < UJ Z bJ — — I w ir z h ' """Uw^ X V D CD q: ( z r 5 /\^ bJ > z -^. - -1 J > = i / u 1 1 ) -t^T- \ tt ' I bJ r "Ji E u 1 1 "'y^I z a bJ z J ' ^ /^ z 3 < HETTI ADA 1 ^ I \ I si ~ < < z ^ 1 > H 1 J^ :i 1 bJ z u 1 -Wo 1 - -1 5 ^ c 1 "l 1 N 122 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Morton D3 1878 19 1880 Mountrail F2 1909 9 Nelson B2 1883 8 Oliver D3 1885 3 Pembina Al 1871 14 1880 Pierce C2 1887 8 Ramsey B2 1873 14 1880 Ransom A4 1873 9 1880 Renville El 1873 5 1880 Richland A4 1873 20 1880 Rolette CI 1873 11 1880 Sargent A4 1883 8 Sheridan D2 1873 5 1880 Sioux D4 1914 4 Slope F4 1915 2 Stark E3 1879 16 1880 Steele A3 1871 5 1880 Stutsman B3 1873 24 1880 Towner CI 1885 6 Traill A3 1875 11 1880 Walsh A2 1881 19 Ward D2 1885 19 Wells C3 1881 10 Williams Fl 1890 16 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 to 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 124 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 OHIO 125 Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Huron B3 1809 39 1820-80 Jackson D3 1816 28 1820-80 Jefferson B4 1797 96 1820-80 Knox B3 1808 35 1820-80 Lake A3 1840 76 1840-80 Lawrence D3 1816 49 1820-80 Licking C3 1817 71 1820-80 Logan B2 1817 31 1820-80 Lorain A3 1822 148 1830-80 Lucas A2 1835 396 1840-80 Madison C2 1810 22 1820-80 Mahoning B4 1846 258 1850-80 Marion B2 1824 50 1830-80 Medina B3 1812 40 1820-80 Meigs D3 1819 23 1820-80 Mercer Bl 1820 28 1820-80 Miami CI 1807 61 1820-80 Monroe B4 1813 15 1820-80 Montgomer yCl 1805 398 1820-80 Morgan C3 1818 13 1820-80 Morrow B2 1848 17 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 B 126 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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. OKLAHOMA 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 B4 1907 15 Alfalfa B2 1907 11 Atoka D3 1907 14 Beaver Al 1890 (1892) 7 Beckham CI 1907 22 Blaine B2 1895 (1892) 15 Bryan D3 1907 29 Caddo C2 1891 (1906) 35 Canadian C2 1890 26 Carter D2 1907 36 Cherokee B4 1907 19 Choctaw D4 1907 20 Cimarron Al 1907 5 Cleveland C2 1890 41 Coal C3 1907 8 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 128 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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) OKLAHOMA 129 Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By I Noble B3 1897 (1893) 12 Nowata B4 1907 13 Okfuskee C3 1907 17 Oklahoma C2 1891 (1890) 325 Okmulgee C3 1907 45 Osage B3 1907 (1893) 32 Ottawa B4 1907 32 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 Choctaw Lands (Chickasaw Lands) Nowata Okemah Oklahoma City Okmulgee Pawhuska Miami Pawnee Stillwater McAlester Ada County Map of Oklahoma 130 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Map Index Date Formed Pop, By M Census Reports Available Pottawatomie €3 Pushmataha D4 1893 (1891) 1907 44 12 Roger Mills CI Rogers B4 Seminole C3 Sequoyah C4 Stephens D2 1895 (1892) 1907 1907 (1906) 1907 1907 7 20 41 20 34 Texas Tillman Tulsa A2 Dl B3 1907 1907 1907 14 18 252 Wagoner B4 1907 17 Washington B3 Washita CI Woods Bl 1907 1897 (1892) 1893 33 18 15 Woodward Bl 1907 (1893) 14 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 OREGON 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. 132 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 133 134 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 C3 1800 44 1800-80 Allegheny CI 1788 155 1790-80 Armstrong Bl 1800 81 1800-80 Beaver Bl 1800 175 1800-80 Bedford C2 1771 41 1790-80 Berks B4 1752 256 1800-80 Blair C2 1846 140 1850-80 Bradford A3 1810 52 1820-80 Bucks B4 1682 145 1790-80 Butler Bl 1800 97 1800-80 Cambria B2 1804 210 1820-80 Cameron A2 1860 7 1870-80 Carbon B4 1843 58 1850-80 Centre B2 1800 66 1800-80 Chester C4 1682 159 1790-80 Clarion Bl 1839 38 1850-80 Clearfield B2 1804 86 1810-80 Clinton B2 1839 37 1840-80 Columbia B3 1813 53 1820-80 Crawford Al 1800 79 1800-80 Cumberland C3 1750 94 1790-80 Dauphin C3 1785 198 1790-80 Delaware C4 1789 414 1790-80 Elk A2 1843 35 1850-80 Erie Al 1800 219 1800-80 Fayette CI 1783 190 1790-80 Forest Al 1848 5 1860-80 Franklin C2 1784 76 1790-80 Fulton C2 1850 10 1850-80 Greene CI 1796 45 1800-80 Huntington C2 1787 41 1790-80 Indiana B2 1803 77 1810-80 Jefferson B2 1804 49 1810-80 Juniata B3 1831 15 1840-80 Lackawana A4 1878 257 1880 Lancaster C3 1729 235 1790-80 Lawrence Bl 1849 105 1850-80 Lebanon C3 1813 82 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 B4 1812 198 1820-80 Luzerne B3 1786 392 1790-80 Lycoming B3 1795 106 1790-80 McKean A2 1804 57 1810-80 Mercer Bl 1800 112 1790-80 Mifflin B2 1789 44 1790-80 Monroe B4 1836 34 1840-80 Montgomery C4 1784 353 1790-80 Montour B3 1850 16 1850-80 Northampton B4 1752 185 1790-80 Northumber- land B3 1772 117 1790-80 Perry C3 1820 25 1820-80 Philadelphia C4 1682 2072 1790-80 Pike A4 1814 8 1820-80 Potter A2 1804 17 1810-80 Schuylkill B3 1811 201 1820-80 Snyder B3 1855 23 1860-80 Somerset C2 1795 82 1800-80 Sullivan A3 1847 7 1850-80 Susquehana A4 1810 32 1820-80 Tioga A3 1804 35 1810-80 Union B3 1813 23 1820-80 Venango Bl 1800 65 1800-80 Warren Al 1800 43 1800-80 Washington CI 1781 210 1790-80 Wayne A4 1798 28 1800-80 Westmoreland CI 1773 313 1790-80 Wyoming A3 1842 17 1850-80 York C3 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 B D 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 C2 1747 29 1790-80 Kent B3 1750 78 1790-80 Newport D3 1703 62 1790-80 Providence Bl 1793 575 1790-80 Washington I B4 1729 49 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 Bl 1868 22 Aiken B2 1871 53 Allendale C3 1918 12 Anderson Al 1868 91 Bamberg B3 1897 18 Barnwell B2 1868 17 Beufort C3 1868 27 Berkeley B4 1882 30 Calhoun B3 1908 15 Charleston C4 1868 165 Cherokee A2 1897 35 Chester A2 1868 33 Chesterfield A3 1868 36 Clarendon B3 1868 32 Colleton C3 1868 28 140 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Darlington A3 1868 50 1800-80 Dillon A4 1910 31 Dorchester B3 1868 23 1880 Edgefield B2 1868 17 1800-80 Fairfield A2 1868 22 1800-80 Florence A3 1888 80 Georgetown B4 1868 32 1790-80 Greenville Al 1868 168 1800-80 Greenwood B2 1897 42 Hampton C3 1878 18 1880 Horry A4 1861 60 1810-80 Jasper C3 1912 11 Kershaw A3 1868 32 1800-80 Lancaster A3 1868 37 1800-80 Laurens A2 1868 47 1800-80 Lee A3 1902 23 Lexington B2 1868 44 1800-80 McCormick B2 1914 10 Marion A4 1868 33 1800-80 Marlboro A3 1868 32 1800-80 Newberry- B2 1868 32 1800-80 Oconee Al 1865 39 1870-80 Orangeburg B3 1868 69 1800-80 Pickens Al 1868 40 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. 142 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS South Dakota County Histories (Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census) Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Armstrong C2 1883 .05 Aurora B3 1879 5 1880 Beadle B2 1873 21 1880 Bennett D3 1909 3 BonHomme A3 9 Brookings A2 1868 18 1880 Brown Bl 1879 33 1880 Brule B3 1879 6 1880 Buffalo B2 1872 2 1880 Butte E2 1883 8 Campbell CI 1873 4 1880 Charles Mix B3 1865 16 1880 Clark A2 1873 8 1880 Clay A3 11 1862 Codington A2 1878 19 1880 Corson Dl 1909 6 Custer E3 1877 6 1880 Davison B3 1875 17 1880 Day Al 1879 12 1880 Deuel A2 1878 8 1880 Dewey CI 1910 5 Douglas B3 1873 6 1880 Edmunds Bl 1873 7 1880 Fall River E3 1883 10 Faulk B2 5 Grant Al 1891 10 Gregory B3 1889 9 Haakon D2 1873 3 1880 Hamlin A2 1878 7 1880 Hand B2 1873 7 1880 Hanson A3 1872 5 1880 Harding El 1881 2 Hughes C2 1874 8 1880 Hutchinson A3 1871 11 1880 Hyde C2 1873 3 1880 Jackson D3 1915 2 Jerauld B2 1883 4 Jones C2 1917 2 Kingsbury A2 1879 10 1880 Lake A2 1873 12 1880 Lawrence E2 1877 17 1880 Lincoln A3 1871 13 1880 Lyman C3 1873 5 1880 McCook A3 1873 9 1880 McPherson Bl 1873 7 1880 Marshall Al 1885 8 Meade D2 1889 12 Mellette C3 1909 3 Miner A2 1873 6 Minnehaha A3 1865 71 1880 Moody A2 1873 9 1880 Pennington E2 1877 34 1880 Perkins Dl 1909 7 Potter C2 1875 5 1880 Roberts Al 1883 15 Sanborn B2 1883 5 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 D 144 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 146 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Bledsoe B2 1807 9 1830-80 Blount B3 1795 55 1830-80 Bradley B2 1835 32 1840-80 Campbell A3 1806 34 1830-80 Cannon Bl 1836 9 1840-80 Carroll C2 1821 27 1830-80 Carter A4 1796 42 1830-80 Cheatham C3 1856 9 1860-80 Chester D2 1875 11 1880 Claiborne A3 1801 25 1830-80 Clay A2 1870 9 1880 Cocke B3 1797 23 1830-80 Coffee Bl 1836 23 1840-80 Crockett C2 1845 17 Cumberland A2 1856 19 1860-80 Davidson C3 1783 322 1820-80 Decatur D2 1845 9 1850-80 DeKalb Al 1837-8 12 1840-80 Dickson C3 1803 19 1820-80 Dyer CI 1823 33 1830-80 Fayette Dl 1824 28 1830-80 Fentress A2 1823 15 1830-80 Franklin Bl 1807 25 1820-80 Gibson C2 1823 48 1830-80 Giles D3 1809 27 1820-80 Grainger A3 1796 13 1830-80 Greene A3 1783 41 1830-80 Grundy Bl 1844 13 1850-80 Hamblen A3 1870 24 1880 Hamilton B2 1819 208 1830-80 Hancock A3 1844 9 1850-80 Hardeman D2 1823 23 1830-80 Hardin D2 1819 17 1820-80 Hawkins A3 1786 30 1830-80 Haywood Dl 1823 26 1830-80 Henderson D2 1821 17 1830-80 Henry C2 1821 24 1830-80 Hickman C3 1807 13 1820-80 Houston C3 1871 5 1880 Humphreys C3 1809 11 1820-80 Jackson Al 1801 12 1820-80 Jefferson A3 1792 20 1830-80 Johnson A4 1836 12 1840-80 Knox A3 1792 223 1830-80 Lake CI 1870 12 1870-80 Lauderdale Dl 1835 25 1840-80 Lawrence D3 1817 29 1820-80 Lewis D3 1843 6 1850-80 Lincoln D4 1809 26 1820-80 Loudon B2 1871 23 1880 McMinn B2 1819 32 1830-80 McNairy D2 1823 20 1830-80 Macon Al 1842 14 1850-80 Madison D2 1821 60 1830-80 Marion Bl 1817 21 1830-80 Marshall D3 1836 18 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 D3 1807 40 1820-80 Meigs B2 1836 6 1840-80 Monroe B2 1819 25 1830-80 Montgomery C3 1796 44 1820-80 Moore D4 1871 4 1880 Morgan A2 1817 16 1830-80 Obion C2 1823 29 1830-80 Overton A2 1806 18 1820-80 Perry D3 1818 6 1820-80 Pickett A2 1879 5 1880 Polk B2 1839 14 1840-80 Putnam A2 1842 30 1860-80 Rhea B2 1807 16 1830-80 Roane B2 1801 32 1830-80 Robertson C3 1796 27 1820-80 Rutherford C4 1803 41 1810-80 Scott A2 1849 17 1850-80 Sequatchie B2 1857 6 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 148 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Sevier B3 1794 23 1830-80 Shelby Dl 1819 482 1820-80 Smith Al 1799 14 1820-80 Stewart C3 1803 9 1820-80 Sullivan A4 1779 95 1830-80 Sumner C4 1786 34 1820-80 Tennessee 1788 Tipton Dl 1823 30 1830-80 Trousdale C4 1870 5 1880 Unicoi A4 1875 16 1880 Union A3 1850 9 1860-80 Van Buren B2 1840 4 1850-80 Warren Bl 1807 22 1820-80 Washington A4 1777 60 1830-80 Wayne D3 1819 14 1820-80 Weakley C2 1823 28 1830-80 White A2 1806 16 1820-80 Williamson C3 1799 24 1820-80 Wilson C4 1799 26 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 TEXAS 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 B2 1846 32 1850-80 Andrews E2 1876 5 1880 Angelina A2 1846 36 1850-80 Aransas B4 1871 4 1880 Archer CI 1858 7 1880 Armstrong Fl 1876 2 1880 Atascosa C4 1856 20 1860-80 Austin B3 1835 15 1850-80 Bailey El 1876 8 1880 Bandera C3 1856 4 1860-80 Bastrop B3 1837 20 1850-80 Baylor CI 1859 7 1880 Bee B4 1857 18 1860-80 Bell B2 1850 74 1860-80 Bexar C3 Bef. 1835 500 1850-80 Blanco C3 1858 4 1870-80 Borden D2 1876 1 1880 Bosque C2 1854 12 1860-80 Bowie Al 1840 62 1850-80 Brazoria A3 1837 47 1850-80 Brazos B3 1841 38 1850-80 Brewster E3 1887 7 Briscoe F2 1876 4 Brooks F4 1911 9 Brown C2 1856 29 1860-80 Burelson B3 1846 13 1850-80 Burnet C3 1852 10 1860-80 Caldwell B3 1848 19 1850-80 Calhoun B4 1846 9 1850-80 Callahan C2 1877 9 1880 Cameron E4 1848 125 1850-80 Camp Al 1874 9 Carson Fl 1876 7 Cass Al 1871 27 1850-80 Castro F2 1876 5 Chambers A3 1858 8 1860-80 Cherokee A2 1846 39 1850-80 Childress E2 1876 12 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 150 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Clay CI 1857 10 1860-80 Cochran El 1876 6 Coke D2 1889 4 Coleman C2 1858 16 1870-80 Collin Bl 1846 42 1850-80 Collingsworth El 1876 9 Colorado B3 1835 18 1850-80 Comal C3 1846 16 1850-80 Comanche C2 1856 16 1860-80 Concho C2 1858 5 Cooke Bl 1848 22 1850-80 Coryell C2 1854 16 1860-80 Cottle Dl 1876 6 Crane E2 1887 4 Crockett D3 1875 4 Crosby Dl 1909 10 Culberson E2 1911 2 Dallam Fl 1876 8 Dallas B2 1846 615 1850-80 Dawson D2 1876 19 1860-80 Deaf Smith Fl 1876 9 Delta Bl 1870 9 Denton Bl 1846 41 1850-80 DeWitt B3 1846 23 1850-80 Dickens Dl 1876 7 Dimmit C4 1880 11 Donley El 1876 6 Duval F4 1858 16 1870-80 Eastland C2 1858 24 1860-80 Ector E2 1891 42 Edwards D3 1858 3 Ellis B2 1849 46 1850-80 El Paso F2 1850 195 1860-80 Erath C2 1856 18 1860-80 Falls B2 1850 27 1860-80 Fannin Bl 1837 31 1850-80 Fayette B3 1837 24 1850-80 Fisher D2 1876 11 1880 Floyd Dl 1890 11 Foard CI 1891 4 Fort Bend B3 1837 31 1850-80 Franklin Al 1875 6 Freestone B2 1851 16 1860-80 Frio C4 1858 10 1860-80 Gaines E2 1876 9 Galveston A3 1838 113 1850-80 Garza Dl 1876 6 Gillespie C3 1848 11 1850-80 Glasscock D2 1893 1 Goliad B4 1837 6 1850-80 Gonzales B3 1837 21 1850-80 Gray El 1876 25 Grayson Bl 1846 70 1850-80 Gregg A2 1873 61 Grimes B3 1846 15 1850-80 Guadalupe C3 1846 25 1850-80 Hale Dl 1876 28 Hall E2 1890 11 Hamilton C2 1858 11 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 Fl 1876 4 Hardeman CI 1858 10 Hardin A3 1858 20 Harris A3 1837 807 Harrison A2 1839 48 Hartley Fl 1876 2 Haskell CI 1858 14 Hays C3 1847 18 Hemphill El 1876 4 Henderson B2 1846 23 Hidalgo F4 1852 160 Hill B2 1853 31 Hockley El 1876 20 Hood C2 1865 5 Hopkins Bl 1846 23 Houston A2 1837 23 Howard D2 1876 27 Hudspeth F2 1917 4 Hunt Bl 1846 43 Hutchinson Fl 1876 32 Irion D2 1889 2 Jack CI 1857 8 Jackson B4 1836 13 Jasper A2 1835 20 Jeff Davis E3 1887 2 Jefferson A3 1836 195 Jim Hogg F4 1913 5 Jim Wells E4 1911 28 Johnson B2 1845 31 Jones C2 1881 22 Karnes B4 1921 17 Kaufman B2 1848 31 Kendall C3 1862 5 Kenedy E4 .6 Kent Dl 1876 2 Kerr C3 1856 14 Kimble C3 1858 5 King Dl 1876 .8 Kinney D3 1874 3 Kleberg E4 1913 22 Knox CI 1858 10 Lamar Bl 1840 43 Lamb El 1876 20 Lampasas C2 1856 10 La Salle C4 1858 7 Lavaca B3 1846 22 Lee B3 1874 10 Leon B2 1846 12 Liberty A3 1837 27 Limestone B2 1846 25 Lipscomb El 1875 4 Live Oak C4 1856 9 Llano C3 1856 5 Loving E2 1887 .2 Lubbock Dl 1876 101 Lynn Dl 1876 11 McCulloch C2 1856 12 McLennan B2 1850 130 McMullen C4 1858 1 152 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Madison B2 1853 8 1860-80 Marion Al 1860 10 1860-80 Martin D2 1876 6 Mason C3 1858 5 1860-80 Matagorda B4 1837 22 1850-80 Maverick D4 1871 12 1860-80 Medina 03 1848 17 1850-80 Menard C3 1858 4 1870-80 Midland D2 1885 26 Milam 03 1835 24 1850-80 Mills 02 1887 6 Mitchell D2 1876 14 Montague 01 1857 17 1860-80 Montgomery B3 1837 25 1850-80 Moore Fl 1876 13 Morris Al 1875 9 Motley Dl 1876 4 Nacogdoches A2 1837 30 1850-80 Navarro B2 1846 40 1850-80 Newton A2 1846 11 1850-80 Nolan D2 1876 20 Nueces E4 1846 165 1850-80 Ochiltree El 1876 6 Oldham Fl 1876 2 Orange A3 1852 41 1860-80 Palo Pinto 02 1856 17 1860-80 Panola A2 1846 19 1850-80 Parker 02 1855 22 1860-80 Parmer F2 1876 6 Pecos E3 1871 10 Polk A3 1846 16 1850-80 Potter Fl 1876 73 Presidio E3 1850 7 1860-70 Rains Bl 1870 4 Randall Fl 1876 14 Reagan D2 1903 3 Real 03 1913 2 Red River Al 1835 22 1850-80 Reeves E2 1883 12 Refugio B4 1836 10 1850-80 Roberts El 1837 1 Robertson B2 1876 20 1850-80 Rockwall Bl 1873 6 Runnells 02 1911 17 Rusk A2 1843 42 1850-80 Sabine A2 1836 9 1850-80 San Augustine A2 1835 9 1850-80 San Jacinto A3 1870 7 San Patricio B4 1835 36 1850-80 San Saba 02 1856 9 1860-80 Schleicher D3 1887 3 Scurry D2 1876 23 Shackelford 02 1856 5 1860-80 Shelby A2 1836 23 1850-80 Sherman Fl 1876 2 Smith A2 1846 75 1850-80 Somervell 02 1875 3 Starr F4 1848 14 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 153 154 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 UTAH 155 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 156 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 El 1856 5 1860-80 Box Elder Al 1856 20 1860-80 Cache A2 1856 34 1860-80 Carbon C3 1894 25 Daggett Davis B4 B2 1917 1850 ,3 31 1850-80 Duchesne C3 1914 8 Emery Garfield D3 F3 1880 1864 6 4 Grand D4 1892 2 Iron Fl 1852 10 1850-80 Juab CI 1849 6 1860-80 Kane F2 1864 2 1870-80 Millard Dl 1852 9 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 UTAH 157 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 158 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 ^-8& S "W I/^ZS^^ M JL ft Ji A »r-o jP'r"^""! — 5 VERMONT 161 Vermont County Histories ^Population figures to nearest thousand, 1950 Census) Name Census Map Date Pop. Reports Index Formed By M Available Addison Bl 1785 19 1790-80 Bennington Dl 1779 24 1790-80 Caledonia B3 1792 24 1800-80 Chittenden Bl 1787 63 1790-80 Essex A3 1792 6 1800-80 Franklin Al 1792 30 1800-80 Grand Isle Al 1802 3 1810-80 Lamoille A2 1835 11 1840-80 Orange B2 1781 17 1790-80 Orleans A2 1792 21 1800-80 Rutland CI 1781 46 1790-80 Washington B2 1810 43 1820-80 Windham D2 1779 29 1790-80 Windsor C2 1781 44 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 164 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 42 28 6 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 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 VIRGINIA 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 166 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- WASHINGTON 167 County Map of Washington B D < < > \ < U -i (A < 2 < < r ! -1 \ N -1 u 168 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 B3 1883 7 Asotin A4 1883 11 Benton C4 1855 51 1880 Chelan D2 1899 39 Clallam F2 1854 26 1860-80 Clark E4 1854 85 1860-80 Columbia A4 1855 5 1860-80 Cowlitz E4 1854 53 1860-80 Douglas C2 1883 11 Ferry Bl 1899 4 Franklin B3 1883 14 Garfield A3 1881 3 Grant C3 "•883 24 Gray's Harbor F3 1885 54 Island El 1854 11 1860-80 Jefferson F2 1854 12 1860-80 King D2 1855 733 1860-80 Kitsap E2 1871 76 1860-80 Kittitas C3 1883 22 Klickitat D4 1858 12 1860-80 Lewis E3 1855 44 1860-80 Lnicoln B2 1883 11 Mason E2 1864 15 1870-80 Okanogan CI 1883 29 Pacific F3 1854 17 1860-80 Pend Oreille Al 1891 7 Pierce E3 1853 276 1860-80 San Juan El 1873 3 1870-80 Skagit Dl 1883 43 Skamania E4 1854 5 1860-80 Snohomish D2 1853 112 1870-80 Spokane A2 1883 222 1860-80 Stevens Al 1854 19 1870-80 Thurston E3 1853 45 1860-80 Wahkiakum F4 1855 4 1860-80 Walla Walla B4 1854 40 1860-80 Whatcom Dl 1857 67 1860-80 Whitman A3 1871 32 1880 Yakima D3 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 B3 1843 20 1850-80 Berkeley C4 1772 30 1790-80 Boone Bl 1847 33 1850-80 Braxton B2 1836 18 1840-80 Brooke A3 1796 27 1800-80 Cabell Al 1809 108 1810-80 Calhoun B2 1856 10 1860-80 Clay B2 1858 15 1860-80 Doddridge B3 1845 9 1850-80 Fayette B2 1831 82 1840-80 Gilmer B2 1845 10 1850-80 Grant C3 1866 9 1870-80 Greenbrier C2 1778 29 1790-80 Hampshire C4 1753 13 1790-80 Hancock A4 1748 34 1850-80 Hardy B4 1785 10 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 170 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Harrison B3 1784 85 1790-80 Jackson A2 1831 15 1840-80 Jefferson B4 1801 17 1810-80 Kanawha B2 1789 240 1790-80 Lewis B3 1816 21 1820-80 Lincoln Bl 1867 22 1870-80 Logan Bl 1824 77 1830-80 McDowell CI 1858 99 1860-80 Marion B3 1842 72 1850-80 Marshall A3 1836 37 1840-80 Mason A2 1804 24 1810-80 Mercer 01 1837 75 1840-80 Mineral C4 1866 22 1870-80 Mingo Bl 1895 47 Monongalia B3 1776 61 1790-80 Monroe C2 1779 13 1790-80 Morgan C4 1820 8 1820-80 Nicholas B2 1818 28 1820-80 Ohio A3 1777 72 1790-80 Pendleton C3 1787 9 1790-80 Pleasants A3 1851 6 1860-80 Pocahontas C2 1821 12 1830-80 Preston B3 1818 31 1820-80 Putnam B2 1848 21 1850-80 Raleigh 01 1850 96 1860-80 Randolph B3 1787 31 1790-80 Ritchie B2 1843 13 1850-80 Roane B2 1856 18 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 County Map of West Virginia 1 ' 2 * 3 'v^-v 4 Jy'^ A v^^S yvVO^g5%|^' "" J /r^>^^^^^ B &ff'^^^M^ ^S^ 'Vj*^ f ^<^ ^\^ /^^^^^ y— v^-*^^ ^^^J^'' \^ • //C% )^^ \\ I \j\ ^^%J^'\ V\^\j,"j?^ 1 '^^^j \ ^ / ^'^ \ <^>V \ i^..^ o^^"^ '-A -T-pamtX ^^^>^'~^"\k ^^ C ^Kt^^^^^^%c2>^ ^^^nL ^'"' ^'oi\..^ ^^ ^"^^ '^ \^^^^ ^x*r \^ WEST VIRGINIA 171 Census Map Date Pop. Reports Name Index Formed By M Available Summers C2 1871 19 1880 Taylor B3 1844 18 1850-80 Tucker B3 1856 11 1860-80 Tyler A3 1814 11 1820-80 Upshur B3 1851 19 1860-80 Wayne Bl 1842 39 1850-80 Webster B2 1860 18 1870-80 Wetzel A3 1846 20 1850-80 Wirt B2 1848 5 1850-80 Wood A2 1798 67 1800-80 Wyoming CI 1850 38 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 172 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Name Map Index Date Formed Pop. By M Census Reports Available Bayfield A2 1866 14 1870-80 Brown C4 1818 98 1840-80 Buffalo CI 1853 15 1860-80 Burnett Bl 1856 10 1860-80 Calumet D4 1836 19 1840-80 Chippewa C2 1845 43 1850-80 Clark C2 1853 32 1860-80 Columbia D3 1846 34 1850-80 Crawford E2 1818 18 1840-80 Dane E3 1838 169 1840-80 Dodge D3 1836 58 1840-80 Door C4 1851 21 1860-80 Douglas Al 1856 47 1860-80 Dunn CI 1856 27 1860-80 Eau Claire C2 1856 54 1860-80 Florence B3 1882 4 Fond du Lac D3 1836 68 1840-80 Forest B3 1885 9 Grant E2 1836 41 1840-80 Green E2 1836 24 1840-80 Green Lake D3 1859 15 1860-80 Iowa E2 1829 20 1840-80 Iron A2 1893 9 Jackson C2 1853 16 1860-80 Jefferson E3 1853 43 1840-80 Juneau D2 1856 19 1860-80 Kenosha D4 1850 75 1850-80 Kewaunee C4 1852 17 1860-80 La Crosse D2 1851 68 1860-80 Lafayette E2 1846 18 1850-80 Langlade B3 1880 22 Lincoln B3 1866 22 1870-80 Manitowoc D4 1836 67 1840-80 Marathon C3 1851 80 1850-80 Marinette B4 1879 36 Marquette D3 1818 9 1840-80 Milwaukee D4 1834 871 1840-80 Monroe D2 1856 31 1860-80 Oconto C4 1851 26 1860-80 Oneida B3 1885 21 Outagamie C3 1851 82 1860-80 Ozaukee E4 1853 23 1860-80 Pepin CI 1851 7 1860-80 Pierce CI 1853 21 1860-80 Polk Bl 1853 25 1860-80 Portage C3 1836 35 1840-80 Price B2 1878 16 Racine D4 1836 110 1840-80 Richland D2 1842 19 1850-80 Rock E2 1836 43 1840-80 Rusk B2 1902 17 St. Croix CI 1838 26 1840-80 Sauk D2 1838 38 1840-80 Sawyer B2 1883 10 Shawano C3 1856 35 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 81 1840-80 Taylor B2 1875 18 Trempealeau C2 1851 24 1860-80 Vernon D2 1863 28 1870-80 Vilas B3 1898 9 Walworth E2 1836 42 1840-80 Washburn Bl 1883 12 Washington E4 1836 34 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 B D DOUGLAS BURNETT POLK I BARRON I RUSK 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 B4 1868 19 1870-80 Big Horn CI 1890 13 Campbell Bl 1911 5 Carbon C4 1868 16 1870-80 Converse B3 1888 6 Crook Al 1878 5 1880 Fremont D2 1885 20 Goshen A3 1911 13 Hot Springs D2 1911 5 Johnson B2 1875 5 Laramie A4 1868 48 1870-80 Lincoln E3 1911 9 Natrona C3 1888 31 Niobrara A3 1911 5 Park Dl 1909 15 Platte A3 1911 8 Sheridan CI 1888 20 Sublette E3 1921 2 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 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 D3 Antwerpen (Antwerp) E3 ♦Bruxelles (Brussels) E2 Mons (Bergen) E4 Li^ge (Luik) D3 Hasselt F4 Aarlon (Arlon) F3 Namur (Namen) E2 Gent (Gand or Ghent) El 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. C7 Bedford Berks. F8 Reading 186 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS ^ r z < ul >• I o -J o m f z o uJ o. O J ,^^'< /st ^':ir'«9wo ENGLAND 187 188 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Map Name Abbreviation Index County Town Buckinghamshire Bucks. G7 Buckingham Cambridgeshire Cambs. H7 Cambridge Cheshire (Chester Co.) Ches. E5 Chester Cornwall Cornwall BIO Bodmin Cumberland Cumb. D3 Carlisle Derbyshire Derby F5 Derby Devonshire Devon C9 Plymouth Dorsetshire Dorset E9 Dorchester Durham Dur. F3 Durham Essex Essex H8 Clemsford Gloucestershire Glos. (Gloucs.) E8 Gloucester Hampshire Hants. F9 Winchester Herefordshire Herefs. E7 Hereford Hertfordshire Herts. G8 Hertford Huntingdonshire Hunts. G6 Huntingdon Kent Kent H8 Maidstone Lancashire (Lancaster Co.) Lanes. E4 Lancaster Leicestershire Leics. F6 Leicester Lincolnshire Lines. G5 Lincoln London London G8 London Middlesex Mx. G8 London Monmouthshire Mont. D8 Monmouth Norfolk Norfolk H6 Norwich Northamptonshire Northants. G7 Northampton Northumberland Northumb. E2 Newcastle Nottinghamshire Notts. F6 Nottingham Oxfordshire Oxon. F7 Oxford Rutlandshire Rut. G6 Oakham Shropshire Salop. (Shrops.) G6 Shrewsbury Somersetshire Somerset D9 Bristol Staffordshire Staffs. E6 Stafford Suffolk Suffolk H7 Ipswich Surrey Surrey G8 Guilford Sussex Sussex H9 Lewes Warwickshire War. (Warws.) E7 Warwick Westmorelandshire Westmd. E3 Appleby Wiltshire Wilts. F8 Salisbury Worcestershire Worcs. E7 Worcester Yorkshire York F4 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 189 190 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 Map of Departments of France 1 ' ^ rOv 3 • 4 1^ ^h^"^^ A ^-r^''"^ i^^^oe r'^^'^^^I^^^^^^^ 0^ m -j***^^T^\ ( v..,^- — "-'^'^^^ ^y\ ^^-\jM'^ '"'V ( I'-fuW ? f / i ^irTis- V, V ^^*»^^— ^ ) Orne ^.^"^ \ i)i<.p( "-l^\ A. d?,-*^ \ ■•gtt^re r- ^ ] WC'- — "^ r^ y ^ V 1 Marne J ' ^-^ >^-' \ -i,,^^-' f ^ ] du-Noid Jllle^ „ P>-^ J ^*- \ J r-^Aube \ '^ ^ ; 1-^ J ^ C^^%>r< et- ( / / ^^ Lolx J~\^ J r tiaute-\ Vosges / ^f V.KV^MorbihanY^-^*"?V' J > ^>^ Loiret /'Yonne T \ ^fiaute- 7^^ \ B ^^JToire-^Maine^^>^ et- A ^^_ L^^" Y \ >^ /^"^Doubs / Nievre/X. /^ S>^ ^/ sew \ Vendue \Deux- Vlndre / . ^L.,y/r«-J Sa9ne- Cjura^ j^ Basses- (v!Jl»»<> / Landes -AT"^ — '^TGaroruMT^ ^S S -^*^ Vlusei Alpes "Vlari- /^ / / G«rs ^V'^t Tarn \ ~J^ J y\BouchesW ^\Jq HgrauXt yC/^_Vu-rjeignd ^ar fJ \i ^,^ Basses 7^-sy*^-'*^* <^r*->/~-r ^ 3" D / Pyr^n^es/ A«>^^ J^^"^ ^^^ ^^-^.v^ ^ s '^ Andorraj^^r^r^es -^Orient ale si j\z*\p»^^ r-^ "^ t 9 /^^i^-jjfc^ w/ FORMER PROVINCES mY OF ^^s FRANCE Sv ^^^**"'^*^q3^o FRANCE 191 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 192 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 States of Germany 1 » 2 \ 3 ' 4 I j\^*^ A S\2 /l^iefj r^ ^■1 MECkLENBUHG V..^^ 1 Y^ ^^ie£g^^N • Schweria .T*^ / B / NIEDEKSACHSEN c "\ Si \ ^\ >/V f ^0 •HannoverX scnsHH. \ ^^^ s } ^^ BKANDENBUKG \ \ NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN Jk X Halle_ ^ ' \ C / r ^ \ ' N-V^ V Dresden. e* J *7 2°""^y^ J (HESSE) f thOkinghn S <^ y— ^ \a OcTT PFALZ (Zit \r^-^'><„^_^/ .BADEN S ,^ /C/V SJuttgart ) BAYERN ^N (BAVARIA) \ Mtlnchen ^^ E U-^ u ^^ GERMANY 193 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 - ^ 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. 196 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS Province Map of Netherlands and Belgium TT D /p yP ^y^ M Gron Leeuviz ni-ngen % .^IbSLAND Assen DKJNT^ < ^Zv^oUe jVBKlJSSBl^ '^n, GE I- • Hertogenboscr NOOBDBRABAKT UJ AlU<^/ ^ /V; Ll^GE ^lWV\3T , Kons (Berge ^AlAUR LU-AEKB013HG country of Atlon CAatlo^U i^embo"^ NETHERLANDS 197 Netherlands is divided into eleven provinces. Each province controls its own archive. Name Map Index Capital Drenthe B4 Assen Friesland A3 Leeuwarden Gelderland C3 Arnhem Groningen A4 Groningen Limburg D4 Maastricht Noord (North) Brabant D3 Hertogenbosch Noord (North) Holland B2 Haarlem Overijssel (Overyssel) B4 Zwolle Utrecht C3 Utrecht Zealand D2 Middleburg Zuid (South) Holland C2 *'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 *Oslo Drammen Bergen Bergen Hermansverk Lilliehammer Hamar Molde Trondheim Steinkjer Bodo Tromso Vadso Fylker Map Index 1 Vestager Dl 2 Aust-Agder Dl 3 Rogaland Dl 4 Telemark Dl 5 Vestfold D2 6 'Ostfold D2 7 Akershus D2 8 Oslo D2 9 Buskerud Dl 10 Hordaland Dl 11 Bergen Dl 12 Sogn og Fjordane CI 13 Opland CI 14 Hedmark CI 15 More og Romsdal CI 16 Sor-Tr6ndelag C2 17 Nord-Trondelag C2 18 Nordland B2 19 Troms A3 20 Finnmark A3 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 202 THIRD EDITION OF THE HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS 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 SWEDEN 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 E2 Malmo Skane 2 Kristianstad E2 Kristianstad Skdne 3 Blekinge E2 Karlskrona Blekinge 4 Kronoberg E2 VSxjo Smaland 5 Halland E2 Halmstad Halland 6 Jonkoping E2 Jonkoping Smaland 7 Kalmar E2 Kalmar Smaland 8 Gotland E3 Visby Gotland 9 Alvsborg D2 Vanersborg Vastergotland 10 G'oteborg och Bohus D2 Goteborg Bohuslan 11 Skaraborg D2 Mariestad Vastergotland 12 Gstergbtland D2 Linkoping Ostergotland 13 Sodermanland D2 Nykoping Sodermanland 14 Orebro D2 Orebro Narke 15 Varmland D2 Karlstad Varmland 16 Vastmanland D2 Vasteras Vastermanland 17 Stockholm D3 ♦Stockholm Sodermanland 18 Uppsala D3 Uppsala Uppland 19 Kopparberg D2 Falun Dalarna 20 Gavleborg C2 Gavle Gastrikland 21 Jamtland C2 Ostersund . Jamtland 22 Vasternorrland C3 HarnosancJ Angermanland 23 Vasterbotten B3 Umea Vasterbotten 24 Norrbotten B3 Lulea Norrbotten 25 City of Stockholm D3 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 B D GRAUBUNDEN « Chur .^^ gK^ .^^ ZlJRICH ZUrich^ AARGAU Aai Glarus SCHWYZ Schwyz ^Itdorf URI Luzern •Sarnen^ UNTHRWAL- LUZERN iTiestal '% • Bern :jj^ \ •Fribourg FRIBOURG ^^ Bellinzona* TICI^D VALIS SWITZERLAND 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. C5 Beaurnares Brecknockshire Brec. D7 Brecknock or Brecon Caernarvonshire (Carnarvon) Caern. C6 Caernarvon Cardiganshire Card. C7 Cardigan Carmarthenshire Carm. C7 Carmarthen Denbighshire Denb. D5 Denbigh Flintshire Flint. D5 Flint Glamorganshire Glam. D8 Cardiff Merionethshire Meri. D6 Dolgelly Montgomeryshire Mont. D6 Montgomery Pembrokeshire Pemb. C7 Pembroke Radnorshire Rad. 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