Ancestry Agriculture Schedule

By Anonymous on Sat, 05/25/2013 - 10:34

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I'm looking at the 1860 Agriculture schedule for New York. I looked at the example given here earlier under Ancestry.Com Mortality Schedules, but there is a major difference. Ancestry indirectly references the NARA film T1128, but they directly reference an archive collection number A18, roll 18, page 43. They don't seem to indicate whose archive it is, so how would I write the citation. This is what I came up with, then realized it doesn't quite fit because the page and line numbers are for the A18 film.

1860 U.S. census, Sullivan County, New York, agriculture schedule, Freemont , p. 43, line 9, John H. Clayton; digital image, "Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 May 2013), citing National Archives and Records Administration, Non-population Census Schedules for New York, 1860-1880: Agriculture, NARA microfilm publication T1128.

Submitted byHiztorybuffon Sat, 05/25/2013 - 14:36

I also have used the 1860 US nonpopulation schedule for New York. Ancestry.com states that they are citing:

  • "Nonpopulation Census Schedules for New York, 1850-1880. Microfilm. New York State Library, Documents and Digital Collections, Albany."

I've searched NARA for A74, roll 74 (my speciific citation on ancestry.com) and there is no New York nonpopulation census. NARA refers to the New York State Libarary. The T1128 mf publication to which you refer appears to be the Nebraska nonpopulation schedule for agriculture. However, I am unclear to what the A74, roll 74 refers. I cannot find that in either NARA or the NYSL.

Submitted bymhaiton Sat, 05/25/2013 - 16:09

In general, the agricultural schedules of the federal census are no longer in the possession of the National Archives, and have therefore not been microfilm by the National Archives. (At least in my experience.) The only surviving copies of agricultural schedules that I have used are in the possession of the various states, and many have indeed been microfilmed by those repositories. (For example, the Library of Virginia and the Maryland State Archives have both microfilmed their respective state's surviving agricultural schedules.) It appears that the same is true in New York, and that the New York State Library has microfilmed the records, which Ancestry.com then digitized.