Click here for a count of the years / counties included in the index.
When you take a closer look at the numbers however, it's not as bleak as it looks. The census for 1890 was lost - some 5.5 million names, and the population numbers for the years 1890 - 1920 represent 28 million names. My index is more heavily weighted towards the earlier years and contains a statistically negligible number of names from the later (1890 - 1920) years.
The aggregate number of people who lived in PA prior to 1880 (inclusive) was 19.5 million. Using this number as a basis, my CD contains approx. 12% of the names. One of the reasons for this is that the census prior to 1850 contains only the names of the head of households. For 1830 for instance, the Census Bureau, puts the total population of PA at 1.5 million, but the heads of households were only 400,000. Those other 1.1 million people's names can only be derived from other records. Another reason is that I have purged duplicate records. If there are 25 John Smiths in the same county in the same census year, the name only appears once.
Bottom line, as Mark Twain once said, "There's lies, damn lies and statistics." My index contains 2.2 million names (or so) across all years from 1790 - 1920 with a cross section of the entire state and all years represented.
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The South Carolina Civil War Soldiers Index - 38,000 names and the Regiment and
Company in which they served.
The Florida Civil War Soldiers Index - 36,000 names and the Regiment and
Company in which they served.
The Louisiana Civil War Soldiers Index - 88,000 names and the Regiment and
Company in which they served.
The Mississippi Civil War Soldiers Index - 36,000 names and the Regiment and
Company in which they served.
The North Carolina Civil War Soldiers Index - 197,000 names and the Regiment and
Company in which they served.
The Tennessee Civil War Soldiers Index - 286,000 names and the Regiment and
Company in which they served.
Civil War Research Consolidated Index - This index contains a merged index of more than 500 Civil War books and CD-ROMS citing the source where the name may be found with full bibliographic citations. A total of 564,000 names are included - about half Confederate and half Federal.
The Georgia Consolidated Census Index - 200,000 names from Georgia Census records showing year and county
The Florida Consolidated Census Index - 280,000 names from Florida Census records showing year and county
The Virginia Consolidated Census Index - 235,000 names from Florida Census records showing year and county
The Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web 2.2 million names and the site on line
where they may be found. This CD also includes an index to the AOL message boards and the
AOL GEDCOM libraries.
Index to the Official Records of the American Civil War This CD is a comprehensive volume level index (more than 1100 pages if printed) to the Official Records which are now on line at Cornell University and at EHistory.com. The Official Records comprise 175,000 pages in 128 volumes.
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