On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:19:41 -0500 (EST) DDoublam(a)aol.com wrote:
Does anyone have access to an abstract of the 1850 Rutherford County
TN
Census? I need a lookup for the following Cates on pp. 286b - 311a - 311b.
An index for the county states there were Cates listed on these pages but
Byron Sistler's census does not list any Rutherford County enumerations.
Appreciate somebody's work if you have access to that census. Thanks.
I have the 1850 Tennessee census images on CD.
For Rutherford County (and I think for many other counties), there
are two numbers on the pages -- a pre-printed number and a
handwritten number.
If you go by the pre-printed numbers, then pp. 286 and 311 don't
exist for Rutherford County. If you go by the handwritten numbers,
then every page is numbered rather than every other page, so there is
no A and B page. In the handwritten numbers, pp. 286 and 311 do
exist, but there are no Cates on those pages.
The CD has an index which does not show any Cates for Rutherford
County. However, I have found numerous errors of commission and
omission in the CD's index.
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Jerry Bryan
jbryan(a)pstcc.cc.tn.us