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1810 -
1900 Census
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Cy Rilee |
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Roane Hunt |
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Cy Rilee
pioneered in an effort to publish much of the federal census records
in a form useful to genealogy researchers. He has publish four
books that cover the years from 1850 to 1880. Each book
includes analysis of the census record, included on this site.
Henry Lewis
Rankin is another major
contributor to publication of Gloucester census records. He has digitized the records from 1810 to 1900,
and they are presented on RootsWeb in table format.
For this
website, Roane Hunt has drawn from the previous work of Rilee and
Rankin, and has converted the census records to paragraph form.
He has checked each census (except 1900) line-by-line and has make
corrections according to his interpretation of the records.
No other
county in Virginia has as much census records available to them as
the researchers of Gloucester County. This is due to the books
of Cy Rilee and the computer files of Henry Lewis Rankin. I
recommend to all serious researchers that they purchase the Rilee
books and save Rankin's files on their computers. They can
easily search the Rankin files, and they can show the paper version
from Rilee's books to those that insist upon a hard copies.
Also, different versions of interpretation can be written into
Rilee's books for permanent storage. Thank you, Cy and Lew.
Also, I
recommend that you read the text from Rilee's four books that are
linked below. He shared similar thoughts when he addressed the
GGSV in 2003. Another link below presents the abbreviation for
Rilee's 1880 census. Cy Rilee prefers to sell his four books
as a set for $99. (You may negotiate for single copies.)
You may reach him by phone (804) 694-5090 or by e-mail at
[email protected] .
LRH
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