how to study a town?
This is the methodology I used to create the database of names to help identify and track a township that was taken from another larger town in 1828
Hello
Recently i started to study a township in CNY, the goal was to attempt to determine the names of those who early settlers in a town created in 1828, when it was set off from a town which would make the new town adjacent to it…
I used the following formula and created indexes using excel-
1820 federal census-lists heads of households (new future residents are created by the new (1828 boundaries of the new town.
1830 and 40- in theory 100 percent new heads of households
1850- first census to list all occupants of a given household is date is when federal census takers listed every individual and their relationship to the person and their description, Mother Wife child border seravant etc
1855 NYS census expands to list occupations/skills declared for each given household….
interesting and revealing work
anyone ever try this approach? goes the method as I have described it work
Rick