DGS Newsletter, Volume 27, Number 6, August 2003 Page: 247
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RESOURCES & AREA EVENTS
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Lloyd's Wish List
We do, at long last, have all of the 1930 census
enumeration descriptions and maps to accompany
them. There is also a "finding" aid on line which, if
one knows the address [such as in large cities],
gives the corresponding enumeration district(s).
Ancestry has the 1930 census index on their web
site, but the [Dallas] library does not have access to
it. HeritageQuest promises to have it in the near
future so the importance of soundexes dwindles
day by day.
We do have the 1930 soundex for Kentucky, West
Virginia, Louisiana, and Tennessee. We lack
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama. These states do
not figure prominently in the ancestry of many
people whose ancestors have migrated westward
so I am reluctant to push the acquisitions
of the 1930 soundexes for them. As I walk around
the microfilm readers looking at what people are
viewing, I am struck by the smaller numbers who
come to view census microfilm. All of it is available
on-line through TexShare to any holder of a library
card.
The key is to provide sources which cannot be
accessed elsewhere. These examples would be
ahead of the 1930 soundexes.
- State census reports are one such alternative
[resource].
- County and state-wide records are another.
- Colonial land records. We have the land
patents of Virginia [but not the Northern Neck
land grants] and of South Carolina. We also
have the plats for the latter (South Carolina).
We have ordered the land patents of colonial
North Carolina for the counties A-R. (The other
counties remain to be microfilmed.) We also
have Tennessee and have ordered a great part
of Kentucky and Maryland.
- Pennsylvania and New Jersey would be next.
These will supplement the access to federal
records at the BLM web site.- I am still ordering microfilm of Texas county
marriage records. Next I would like to add
probate records.
Lloyd
Every edition of the DGS Newsletter will contain
new items and his master Wish List is available on
our website - www.dallasgenealogy.orgREGIONAL & NATIONAL EVENTS
Do you have information about a Genealogy event?
Remit to: Marti Fox, DGS Newsletter Editor,
newsletter@ dallasgenealogy.org
Information should be sent 90 days prior to event.
August 12 - Lancaster Gen. Society
Lela Evans, Does DNA Have a Place in
Genealogical Research?
September 3-6 - FGS 2003 Conference,
Countdown to Discovery: A World of Hidden
Treasures, Renaissance Orlando Resort,
Orlando, FL, (888) 347-1500, www.fgs.org
September 9 - Lancaster Gen. Society
Leala Newsom, Canon Smoke book review, written
by Judge Lester Newton Fitzhugh
September 12 - Dallas Historical Society
Former Governor Bill Clements will be the
Inaugural guest speaker for the "Great Dames and
Tall Texans" Lecture Series hosted by the Dallas
Historical Society. Carolyn Barta, Clements'
biographer in Bill Clements: Texan to His Toenails,
will serve as moderator in an interview format.
Clements and Barta will appear at 7 p.m., Friday, in
the Margaret and Al Hill Lecture Hall in the Hall of
State at Fair Park. Tickets are $10 for Society
members, $15 for non-members. See our web site
for full details: http://www.dallashistory.org/about/
news. htm
September 27 - Mesquite Historical &
Gen. Society Fall Workshop
John Sellers will present Texas Courthouse
Records. Workshop will be held at the Mimosa
Lane Baptist Church, 1233 N. Beltline Rd,
Mesquite. Registration: $23.00 per person at the
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