Too bad that you have to know the name that you are searching in order to
find it - pity the poor person looking for Sam Smith.
It would be an incredible resource if you could easily look at all the
names for a particular enumeration district, could search by other fields
or do bolean searches with keywords. Right now it is great for
genealogists, but very difficult for the myriad of other disciplines that
would find it invaluable.
Does anyone have contacts with the LDS to see about expanding their search
capabilities?
This is the first census index that I have found that actually has the
information right on the money, as given in the original records. Census
indexes are usually so bad as to be nearly worthless, but I've checked this
LDS index of 1880 for the usual favorite names and a couple dozen others I
know and found no errors at all.
Dan W.
At 10/29/02 12:11 PM, you wrote:
>Volunteers from the Mormon Church have just placed the U.S. 1880's census
>online at http://www.familysearch.org
>
>It took nearly 17 years of input to produce this database, which is
>significant in that it includes entries for former slaves.
>
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