Enumerated July 25 thru August 4, 1870 by George Nichols, Ass't. Marshall Transcribed for Tri Counties by Carlton Wolfe 2004 Formatted & Published by Joyce M. Tice 2004
Joyce's Search Tip - January 2008 -
Do You Know that you can search just the
Census
Records on the site by using the three county level Census
buttons in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the
Current
What's New Page?
You can further limit your search by choosing the find all words
option and entering a year or township name along with your surname.
Remember that alternate spellings of surnames WILL affect your search results.
H# = Household - F# = Family
Note 1 - Caucasian unless otherwise noted
Post Offices in Wysox Township in 1870 included Wysox and Meyersburg.
However, the enumerator recorded Wysox PO for ALL residents of Wysox Township.
This may well be an error on his part, and one which we have no way to
correct. In 1870 all rural persons drove to the Post Office, sometimes
only weekly, to pick up their mail. Rural Delivery did not occur until1903.
Census records are very often difficult to read
because of handwriting, microfilm quality, and spelling issues. Our early
census takers were not as well educated as we'd like them to have been,
and even the people bearing the names often could not spell them with the
same consistency we are accustomed to in this era. The census taker wrote
what he believed he heard as well as he could. These have been transcribed
for you to the very best or our abilities given the difficulties mentioned.
Please be tolerant of what you would consider "mistakes." If you can recognize
the names you are looking for, then it is a success. If not, then you may
want to find a place where you can view the originals so that you can judge
for yourselves. Excessive attention to outmoded spelling issues is the
sign of a beginner in family research. Those of you who have been at this
a while are well aware of the "spelling errors" in our early records and
have learned to deal with them.
