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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:57:20 EDT
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- From: Bob Oliphant <oliphant@BBN.COM>
- Subject: Re: SILVERS in 1920 IN census
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- David,
- >
- >Thanks, Nancy, for your suggestion. I have extracted all SILVERS and
- >SILVER from the 1920 census, and forgot to mention it. Is there someone
- >in Indianapolis who is familiar with local city/county records who has an
- >idea of something else I could check?
-
- I'm not from Indianapolis, but I have an idea of something to check. :-)
-
- In looking for records for an Indiana ancestor in the Family History
- Card Catalog (FHCC) on microfiche at my local LDS Family History Center,
- I came across a microfilm of records from a WPA project of the 1930s
- that was an every-name index to several county histories/atlases for
- each of several Indiana counties. The roll I looked at contained
- several counties (Hamilton Co. is the only one I remember, but there
- were several others). For each county there was one name index and for
- each name there was a reference to one or more county histories/atlases
- and a page number. There were on the order of 6-10 references for each
- county. These were primarily the late-1800s, early 1900s county
- histories we're all familiar with. I found several new references for
- my ancestor that eventually led me back another generation to a Rev. War
- veteran in Lehigh Co., PA.
-
- In the FHCC, look under "Indiana," then the "County" of interest, then
- "Biography Indexes." The title of the work I looked at was "Hamilton
- Co., Index of Names of Persons and Firms." The particular roll
- containing Hamilton Co. was Roll No. 1597773, Item 7. Items 1-6 and 8-?
- were other Indiana counties.
-
- Hope this helps. Good luck in your research.
-
- Bob Oliphant
- oliphant@bbn.com
-
- **Researching OLIPHANT, DAVIDSON, STRANAGHAN, HORTON, MAY, MILLER**
- ****GEIST, ROHRBACH, ALLEN, PORTER, BEARDSLEY, CANTLEY, CROSLEY****
-