Gayle & List,
With regard to school censuses -- according to the Inventory of County
records taken in 1937, a series of records called ENUMERATION RECORD was
kept in the Superintendent of Schools office. The inventory shows that the
records start in 1896 and end in 1931 --32 volumes. It was supposedly a
"Record of all children attending grade school, showing name, age, sex
color, grade, and if transferred. Arranged alphabetically by names of
Township." I'm sorry to say, I don't know the whereabouts of that series of
records.
The records that are at the jail museum library are SCHOOL ENUMERATION
records -- by TOWNSHIP & Civil Division -- as individual booklets. I would
guess that these were compiled by the township trustee, and then submitted
to the county Superintendent -- whose office staff copied the info from the
township booklets into a yearly record to be held by the superintendent.
We have nearly all the township booklets for 1883 - 1895. I don't think
we have any of these records past 1895. The information given in these
DOES NOT give children's names. It give names of the parent and number of
male & female children.
We have other township school records -- records kept by the schools.
Apparently some townships brought their records into the courthouse for
storage -- other townships kept the records with the trustee. Our coverage
(meaning what we have at the library) on school records varies. Some
townships we have lots --some hardly none at all. I believe, if you are
interested in the north-east part of the county -- you might be better off
checking with the Syracuse Historical Museum. They have kept a lot of the
their records "over there" (don't know exact location).
It is remarkable to me, how some states have recognized how important
records are, and have managed to keep the right ones, and others states
don't seem to be "in step". In my humble opinion, it seems that the
"East"
and "the West" (in general) have done a pretty good job. In the midwest,
preservation of records has not been a very well-thought-out process. Much
has been destroyed -- in the name of "lack of space!!"
Hope this helps..
marge
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