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From: "Belinda & Dave Savadge" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER-L] When requesting Lookup help...
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:13:31 -0500


Hi Sandy,

I am not one of the one's that ask for a look up, but for those who
didn't appreciate you doing it or appreciate the time you put into doing the
lookups, I will tell you I appreciate it very much.

The ones that you did the lookups for, typed, and sent the info. to,
should be very appreciative. If not then they should be ashamed of
themselves! Most people charge $5.00 to census lookups plus a copy of it.
What you gave as you said a place to start their research and to let them
know that their family was in Hunterdon County and what years they were
there.

I personally think you did a great job. I saw all of your post, so I
know you did a lot of lookups.

Again, Thanks for volunteering to do it at all.

Best Regards,
Belinda


-----Original Message-----
From: Bressler's <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 12:46 PM
Subject: [NJHUNTER-L] When requesting Lookup help...

>Someone wrote:>>Is it possible you can send me the entries?
>Or do you only have access to the index?<<<
>
>The FHC library I use has alot of films, but specific to these years in NJ
...I
>don't know for sure. However, I do know that I cannot "easily" view them
and
>perhaps this is a good opportunity for everyone to know how I would do
that.
>
>In order to "view a film" of a census it takes anywhere from 15-45 minutes,
>(not to mention the driving time to get there, the transcribing time and if
a
>machine is even open to use). I have to check the reference books to see
if
>they have the specific film (different numbers for each township and/or
>county) and copy down a number, then I have to sign up for a machine,
check
>out the film and load it into the machine, then scroll to the page number
and
>transcribe the data off the film, then roll the film back up, and turn it
in.
>
>The lookups I offerred to do were the Census index books which sit right on
a
>shelf as soon as I enter the library. These are relatively easy to check
and
>it only takes 30 seconds to look up a name alphabetically...if there is no
>first name....and 30+ names of the surname...well, you can see that the
>transcribing time really had my knuckles & wrist aching by this morning! I
>must admit that I did use the Xerox machine and copied several pages when
there
>were far too many to copy and closing time was getting near....this way I
could
>finish up the transcription here at home. (and at 10 cents a copy...well,
$2
>wasn't gonna break the piggy bank! ...however for "real" copies of the
census
>FILMs it is 35cents a copy and takes about 15 minutes longer!)
>
>Anyways, you are not the first to ask whether I could get you "more" of the
>data and that's okay. I just can't see my way to volunteer that kind of
time.
>I hope that what I have done is logged in a whole lotta information that
will
>at least point people in a direction for them to continue their research.
>
>For those who question why I didnt' spell things out, etc. I transcribed
them
>exactly and do that so I make less errors (or at least I hope so)...I don't
>want to guess on spellings, counties etc. that I know nothing about. For
those
>who expected more, my apologies. For those who appreciated the info...I'd
>encourage you to find your own FHC (Family History Center) or Genealogical
>Library...this one is at the Mormon church and you don't have to be a
member to
>join (and I'm not) and they have GREAT seminars VERY inexpensive, like this
>month I'm paying a whole $6 for an entire Saturday of workshops!!! It
really
>can be more fun & educational to do the research yourself....enjoy!
>-Sandy
>The Bressler Family
>WEST and KIPLE Genealogy http://www.ns.net/~bbb/west.htm
>
>
>
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