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A long time supplier of mine for both Indiana and Kentucky books had a question for me. Would I be willing to take on the job of selling for him, on consignment, all of the books from the library his wife had collected to use in providing research services for her genealogy customers?

I thought of you, my readers of this newsletter, and how many good books I, alone, had sold to this lady over the thirty years we worked together, and I said yes, of course, I would be happy to do that. I did not at that time realize how many books she actually did have!

To mark the book as a part of this collection, you will find a 1 inch by 3.25 inch blank yellow label inside the front cover of each book or, in some cases on the front cover. That label indicates that this book had been purchased previously by her and had been used as a part of a private research collection. Also, each of the items will be listed in a crate prefaced with the initials CG. Therefore, all the books listed here have been USED unless marked as NEW.

CG CRAZY CRATES WEBSITE EDITION II COVERS 20 CRATES FROM CG CRAZY CRATES 191-200 AND CG 1-13!

The missing numbers on these crates mean that the item for that number has already been sold.

These books will be removed from this website weekly when sold. They are mostly one-of-a-kind and can be ordered only by phone. Call 1-800-419-0200, a toll-free number, to order. Have the crate and the book number, title and price with you as you order. These books are all marked down in price for the last time. This is your chance to save a little money and make giant leaps in your research!

CRAZY CRATE 191: Welcome! Business has been booming lately and we surely do appreciate your nice orders.

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG 191: BOOK 03: HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, INDIANA. 1916-1976. Data was compiled under the auspices of the Washington County Historical Society, Salem, Indiana. Printed and library bound by Evansville Bindery. Book contains 679 pages which includes an 86-page every-name index! Like new condition. WAS $70. NOW $60. This history book covers social groups and churches; transportation and communication; post office and newspapers; county farm; disasters; burial places; education and schools; fire department history; county fairs and the motion picture theatre; and the Home family. Other materials include wars of the past sixty years and informational entries for each one of the fifteen towns in the county. The best feature of this book is the many, many biographical sketches of both current and past residents. Most were prepared by descendants of the family. Some were prepared by family genealogists who detailed their life-long research findings on the pages of this book. Surnames with more than eight first names listed are: [Note: full columns[col] contain 65 names!] Abbott, Adams ˝ col, Akers, Albertson col +, Alexander, Allen ľ col, Anderson ľ col, Applegate, Arnold, Baird, Baker col+, Balentine, Banks, Barekman, Barnett col, Barrett col, Bartle, Batt ˝ col, Baxter, Baynes ˝ col, Beck ˝ col, Beckman, Bell, Bellows, Bennett ˝ col, Benson, Berkey ˝ col, Bicknell, Bishop, Blackman ˝ col, Blair, Blankenbaker ˝ col, Boggs, Boling col, Borden, Boss ˝ col, Boston, Bowers, Bowman, Branaman, Brewer ˝ col, Briscoe, Brock ˝ col, Brooks, Brown 2˝ cols, Brough, Brugh, Bryant, Buchanan, Bunch, Bundy, Burgess ˝ col, Burns, Bush col+, Byerly, Callahan, Callaway1/3 col, Campbell ˝ col, Caress, Carr, Carroll, Carter, Case, Casey, Cauble 1 1/3 col, Chambers, Chaney, Charles, Chastain, 2 cols+, Churchman, Clark ˝ col, Coffin, Coffman, Coker, Colglazier 1˝ col, Collier, Collins, ˝ col, Cook, Coombs, Cooper ˝ col, Corn, Cornwell ˝ col, Cottongim, Craig, Crandall, Cravens, Crawford, Cress, Crim, Crewell, Crockett col, Crotts ˝ col, Curry, Curtis ˝ col, Daily, Daniels, Davidson, Davis col, Dawalt, Day ˝ col, Dean, Deckard, De Jean, Denney, Dennis ˝ col, Denny, Diehl, Dixon, Durnil, Edwards, Elliott ľ col, Ellis, Elrod col, Emery, ˝ col, England, Etzler, Evans, Ewing, Farmer, Ferguson ˝ col, Fisher col, Fitzpatrick ľ col, Fleenor 1Ľ col, Flinn, Flint, Floyd, 1/3 col, Foutch ˝ col, Fulk, Fultz ľ col, Gardner, Garriott 2˝ cols, Gater ˝ col, George, Gettlefinger, Gibson, Gill ˝ col, Gilstrap, Gipson, Godfrey, Goen, Gordon, Goss, Graham, Graves 1˝ cols, Gray col, Green ˝ col, Grimes, Gross, Grossman, Guthrie, Guttman, Hague, Hall ˝ col, Hamilton ˝ col, Hamman, Hammersmith, Hancock, Hank, Hanson, Hardin, Harlow, Harmon, Harris, Harrison, Hartley, Hattabaugh, Haugher, Hawkins, Hedrick 1/3 col, Hein, Hendricks, Hill, Hilton, Hinds ˝ col, Hinkle, Hirtzel, Hoar, Hobbs ˝ col, Hobson, Hodgen, Holbert, Holler, Holsapple, Hopkins, Horner, Hottel col, Howell, Hubbard, Huckleberry ˝ col, Hudson, Huff, Huffman ˝ col, Hughes, Humphrey ľ col, Hunt, Hurst 1Ľ col, Huston, Ingle, Ingram, Jackson ˝ col, Johnson col, Jones ˝ col, Kay, Kelley, Kelly, Kiefer, King, Knight, Laird, Lawyer, Lee 2/3 col, Lewis ľ col, Liebert, Lindley ˝ col, Littell, Little, Lockenour, Long, Loomis, Losson, Lundberg, and Luse. Sorry, this is all I have room for here! Bring yourself up to the Bicentennial Year of 1976 in Washington County, Indiana, with a reading of this book. WAS $70, NOW $60.

GEN(eral)-CRAZY CRATE 191: BOOK CG11: WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA. 1976 BICENTENNIAL EDITION. By Marquis Who’s Who, 39^th Edition, 1976-1977, Volume I. A-K., ex-lib, 1,799 pages, maroon buckram cover. WAS $20, NOW $10. This is one of the so-called vanity-books, but it IS for the Bicentennial year. A curiosity, a souvenir, a memento, or perhaps a goal to meet! Everybody would like to find a member of their family listed in Who’s Who! Book is in excellent condition. Full of biographies by anyone who was anyone in 1976. Anybody you know in this one? Original books cost about $300. WAS $20, NOW $10.

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Thanks for reading our newsletters. Call us right away if you find something you want! Remember the early bird gets the worm and the first caller gets the book! Of course, the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! This is your chance to be that lucky second mouse!! This is your LAST chance to get these items. When they are gone, they are gone! See you every week with more crates of NEW special books just for our newsletter subscribers. Sign up to get these subscriber newsletters at the beginning of this section of our website or on the home page, the main catalog page or the Crazy Crate page. Let us send these e-mail newsletters to you at your home. They are free. There is never any obligation to buy anything! And a quick tap on the Delete button takes them away if you don’t find a book (or two) you want! But you will get to look at book reviews for roughly 30 books a week times 50 weeks a year or 1,500 books per year. One of them just about has to have something that will help you with your genealogy! Pat from yogs

Hi there! Here we are again with a new super crate of books from my supplier who is dismantling the library of his wife, the genealogist, who passed away some years ago. The books are in varying condition, but are intact and totally usable unless I tell you other wise. Most of them look brand new!

NE(New England)-CRAZY CRATE 193: BOOK CG12: VERMONT and NEW HAMPSHIRE, THEIR COUNTIES, THEIR TOWNSHIPS and THEIR TOWNS. This book was compiled by Joan Colbert Gioe of the Researchers. Each book is treated separately. It includes county outline maps of Vermont and of New Hampshire, followed by individually-drawn county maps, divided into townships, with a list of the many towns found within each county. For each state there is also a combined list of current and extinct towns. Those towns are all listed in the back of this book, which lists all town names, current and past, with the name of the county that has their genealogical records. These two copies come from this private library and are NEW. They are excellent finding aids for towns in these two New England states. Both states are listed in each book. NEW. $5

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We will be working in the warehouse a lot this summer because we found out it was too cold or snowed-in to work there in the winter!! Please call us the day before you plan to come to see us to make an appointment. If we do not answer your call, please leave a note on our answering machine so we can make arrangements to be there whenever you plan to come.

We do not always have enough people here to properly cover the three buildings, which are two miles apart, in which we work. If you come and the shop is not open, please walk up to the house, enter the sun porch and knock on the inside door which leads to the computer room. I will usually be working there for that room and the shop are air-conditioned. Thank you for your patience with yet another move.

We are in a transitional period with the addition of another warehouse and a movement of most of our books to that location to facilitate preparations for our seminar trips and to arrange for the movement of our research library to our former shop. We are not as yet, and probably will not be, ready to open the new research library to-the-public until the spring of 2008. It takes a lot of time and muscle power to move 30,000 books around!

VA-CRAZY CRATE 197: BOOK CG07: HISTORY OF HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. By Wirt Johnson Carrington. Appeals Press, 1924. ex-lib. 525 pages, 6 inches by 9 inches, hardbound. Presentation piece in the front is by the brother of the author, Gen. John N. Johnson on August 15, 1925. This book was presented to the Chattanooga, TN, Public Library. WAS $60, NOW $50. Original is in fairly good shape with a nicely reinforced taped binding. Paper is showing its age and has some heavy foxing. It is quite brittle on the edges and needs to be handled carefully.

About a one-half-inch-wide strip of discoloration appears on the inside front cover near the spine facing the presentation page. Has a general index, not an every name index. The Contents Page reveals the depth of research that went into this book. Chapter I.) Covers the Origin and Formation of the County, Chapter II.) Extracts from Court Records, Deeds Etc., Chapter III) Town of Halifax, Chaper IV.) Town of South Boston, Chapter V Road Through the Wilderness, Chapter VI.) The Visit of John Randolph, Chapter VII.) Traditions. Visit of Washington, Kilpatrick’s School, Old Landmarks, Chapter VIII) The Classes, Chapter IX.) Families (Sketches in outstanding detail of family histories and genealogies): Adams, Atkisson, Baynham, Barksdale, Belt, Boyd, Bruce, Calloway, Carlton, Carrington, Chastain, Chalmers, Chappell, Christian, Clark, Coleman, Craddock, Crews, Drinkards, Easley, Edmonson, Edmunds, Faulkner, Flournoy, Fourqurean, Green, Hart, Henry, Hodges, Hudson, Hurt, Irby, Jeffress, Jordan, Lacy, Lawson, Logan, Lovelace, Medley, Morton, Owen, Palmers, Penick, Ragland, Scott, Stebbins, Stokes, Terry, Thornton, Wade, Watkins, Willingham, Wimbish, and Yuille, Chapter X.) has Abstracts of Wills pages 260-354, Chapter 11.) Churches with Abstracts of some Records, Chapter 12.) Marriages 1753 – 1800 arranged by first letter of male surname. page 370 – 510, plus List of Ministers follows. The Appendix covers: Soldiers List in 1758, Burgesses 1753-1775, Delegates to General Assembly 1778 to 1830, List of Halifax Captains, Officers of Halifax Co., Justices 1767, and Pensioned Soldiers Who Drew Pensions as Virginia Militia in 1835, Partial List of Confederate Officers. Because of age, first edition copy status and the special presentation page, which is handwritten in green ink by the presenter, this book has collector value and is priced accordingly WAS $60, NOW $50.

VA-CRAZY CRATE 197: BOOK CG08: GUIDE TO CHURCH RECORDS IN THE ARCHIVES AND RECORDS DIVISION OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY IN RICHMOND, VA. Data compiled by Jewell T. Clark and Elizabeth Terry Long. Published by the Virginia State Library. WAS$20, NOW $17. There are 271 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped. From Abingdon Episcopal Church to Zwinggli, Ulrich, this book lists the church records in its library neatly in order. Divided by denomination, they begin with Baptist and proceed through Catholic, Christian (Disciples of Christ), Episcopal, Friends, Jewish, Lutheran and German Reformed, Methodist, Presbyterian and Unitarian-Universalist. Under each category they are divided by county, so it is easy to find the ones that may help your search. There are also two extremely helpful appendices: Appendix A includes the locations of Original Colonial Parish Registers and Vestry Books and Appendix B which contains records of related interest in other collections. There is both a glossary and an index. Very helpful whether you need to write or whether you plan to go there. WAS $20, NOW $17

VA-CRAZY CRATE 197: BOOK CG12: ROANOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA MARRIAGES, 1838-1850. BY John Vogt and T. William Keithley, Jr., Iberian Press, 1984. WAS $6, NOW $5. This is a bound photocopy of this 52-53 page book, copied two pages of the bound book on each sheet of paper. Roanoke County was formed in 1838 from Botetourt and Montgomery Counties. It has 305 square miles today. Surnames with three or more than three first names are listed here: Abbott 7, Anderson 3, Barnes 3, Barnett 4, Barnhart 7, Blankenship 5, Brewbaker 6, Brickey 3, Brilhart 3, Brown 5, Casper 5, Coffman 3, Coon 7, Deaton 3, Evans 4, Ferguson 6, Foster 4, Fowler 3, Frantz 6, Garst 8, Gish 8, Harkrider 3, Hartman 7, Harvey 3, Henry 3, Huff 3, Huffman 8, Jeter 3, Jones 3, Litteral 3, Martin 4, Mason 5, McClanahan 6, Miller 8, Mitchell 3, Nabors 3, Neighbors 4, Niday 3, Noble 3, Parrish 6, Passinger 3, Poage 5, Reynolds 7, Richardson 7, Riffey 3, Robinson 6, Sarvin 3, Shartzer 7, Shaver 4, Shootman 3, Showalter 4, Sipon 3, Smith 19, Stover 3, Taylor 3, Thomas 3, Trout 10, Vinyard 3, Walton 4, Webster 5, White 6, Willet 4, Williams 4, Wirtz 6, Wolf 3, and Wright 5. Alphabetized by male surname. WAS $6, NOW $5.

Crazy Crate 199 and Crazy Crate 200 were completely sold out! Thank you so much! I hope you are enjoying the books you bought and that they have helped you a lot. Crate 200 had two books left on it and they both sold on May 4, just before I sat down to compile this CRAZY CRATE. How about that for making my job easier! These are good books packed with good information and they are flying off the shelves!

We did not have many of these books left, did we? There were 49 pages of these crates originally and only 10 pages are left. After this, there won’t be much left at all. Hopefully none, so I can open some new crates! Buy them while you can. PAT from YOGS.

Below is a list of the remaining Kentucky census microfilm we have for sale. This added 7 pages to the crates, but for convenience, they are all grouped here now.

KENTUCKY CENSUS MICROFILM

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 191: MICROFILM CG-1002: 1900 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY, Part of TAYLOR COUNTY, All of TRIMBLE COUNTY, TODD COUNTY AND TRIGG COUNTY, REEL T623-552. 1 reel, Film from National Archives, boxed, sold as a single reel, $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 191: MICROFILM CG-1003: 1880 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY, TODD COUNTY, TRIGG COUNTY, TRIMBLE COUNTY and UNION COUNTY, REEL 79-443. 1 reel, boxed, film from the National Archives, sold as a single reel. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 191: MICROFILM CG-1004: 1870 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY, TRIGG COUNTY, TRIMBLE COUNTY, and UNION COUNTY, Reel 593-501, 1 reel, boxed, film from the National Archives, sold as a single reel. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 191: MICROFILM CG-1005: 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY, TRIGG COUNTY and TRIMBLE COUNTY, REEL 653-397, 1 reel, boxed, film from the National Archives, sold as a single reel. $15

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KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1006: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – ADAIR, ALLEN, ANDERSON AND BALLARD COUNTIES. #432-190. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1007: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY -- BARREN & BATH COUNTIES. #432-191. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1008: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY –BOONE, BOURBON, & BOYLE COUNTIES. #432-192. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1009: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY-– CLAY, CLINTON, CRITTENDEN & CUMBERLAND COUNTIES. #432-197. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1010 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – DAVIESS, EDMONSON & ESTILL COUNTIES. #432-198. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1011: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – FAYETTE & FLEMING COUNTIES. #432-199. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1013: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – GARRARD, GRANT & GRAVES COUNTIES. #432-201. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1015: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – HARDIN, HARLAN & HARRISON COUNTIES. #432-203. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG 1016: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – HART, HENDERSON & HENRY COUNTIES. #432-204. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1017: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – HICKMAN, HOPKINS, AND JEFFERSON (OUTSIDE LOUISVILLE) COUNTIES #432-205. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1018: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – OLDHAM, OWEN, OWSLEY, PENDLETON, & PERRY COUNTIES. #432-216. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1019: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – SHELBY, SCOTT, & SIMPSON. #432-218. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1020: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – SPENCER, TAYLOR, TODD, & TRIGG COUNTIES. #432-219. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 193: MICROFILM: MCG1022: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – WHITLEY AND WOODFORD COUNTIES. #432-222. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1041: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – BOURBON, BOYLE, BRACKEN, BREATHITT, BRECKINRIDGE, BULLITT, BUTLER, CALDWELL, CALLOWAY, CAMPBELL, CARROLL, CARTER, CASEY, CHRISTIAN, AND CLARK COUNTIES. ROLLS 192,193,194,195 AND 196. 5 rolls on one reel. WAS $75, NOW $60

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1042: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – JEFFERSON COUNTY, CITY OF LOUISVILLE, JESSAMINE, JOHNSON, KENTON, KNOX, LARUE, LAUREL, LAWRENCE, LETCHER, LEWIS, LINCOLN & LIVINGSTON COUNTIES. ROLLS 206, 207, 208, 209, and 210. 5 rolls on one reel. WAS $75, NOW $60

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1043: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – LOGAN, McCRACKEN, MADISON, MARION, MARSHALL, MASON, MEADE, MERCER, MONROE, MONTGOMERY, MORGAN, MUHLENBERG, NICHOLAS & OHIO COUNTIES. ROLLS 211, 212, 213, 214, and 215. 5 rolls on one reel. WAS $75 NOW $60

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 194: MICROFILM MCG1023: 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY. #M704-0103 FOR THE COUNTIES OF Adair, [Columbia]; Allen,[Scottsville]; Anderson [Lawrenceburg]; and Barren [Glasgow]. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 194: MICROFILM MCG1024: 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY. #M704-0104 FOR THE COUNTIES OF Bath, [Owingsville]; Boone [Burlington]; & Bourbon [Paris]. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 194: MICROFILM MCG1025: 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY. #M704-0105 FOR THE COUNTIES OF Bracken, [Brooksville]; Butler, [Morgantown]; Breathitt, [Jackson]; Breckinridge, [Hardinsburg]; & Bullitt [Shepherdsville]. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 194: MICROFILM MCG1026: 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY. #M704-0106 FOR THE COUNTIES OF Caldwell,[Princeton]; Calloway [Murray] & Campbell [Newport]. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 194: MICROFILM MCG1028: 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY. #M704-0108 FOR THE COUNTIES OF Clark, [Winchester]; Clay, [Manchester]; Clinton [Albany] & Cumberland [Burkesville]. $15

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 194: MICROFILM MCG1029: 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY. #M704-0109 FOR THE COUNTIES OF Daviess, [Owensboro]; Estill, [Irvine]; Edmonson, [Brownsville] & Fayette [Lxington]. $15

Thanks for reading this. Hope we had something you want here! Call us at 1-800-419-0200 Pat from YOGS

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1037: 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – ADAIR, ALLEN, ANDERSON, BARREN, BATH, BOONE, BOURBON, BRACKEN, BRECKINRIDGE, BUTLER, BULLITT, CALDWELL, CALLOWAY, CAMPBELL & CASEY COUNTIES. Rolls 33 & 34 on the same reel. WAS $30 NOW $24

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1038: 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – CHRISTIAN, CLARK, CUMBERLAND, CLAY, DAVIESS, EDMONSON, ESTILL, FAYETTE, FLEMING, FLOYD, FRANKLIN, GALLATIN, GARRARD, GRANT, GRAVES & GRAYSON COUNTIES. Rolls 35 & 36 on the same reel. WAS $30 NOW $24

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1039: 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – GREEN, GREENUP, HANCOCK, HARLAN, HARRISON, HART, HENDERSON, HENRY, HARDIN, HICKMAN, HOPKINS, JEFFERSON, JESSAMINE, KNOX, LAUREL, LAWRENCE, LEWIS & LINCOLN COUNTIES. Rolls 37 & 38 on the same reel. WAS $30 NOW $24

KY-M-CRAZY CRATE 197: MICROFILM: MCG1040: 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS OF KENTUCKY – LIVINGSTON, LOGAN, MADISON, MASON, McCRACKEN, MEADE, MERCER, MONROE, MONTGOMERY, MORGAN, MUHLENBERG, NELSON, NICHOLAS, OHIO, OLDHAM, OWEN, PERRY & PIKE COUNTIES. Rolls 39 & 40 on the same reel. WAS $30 NOW $24

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Welcome to another CG Consolidated Crazy Crate covering all the remaining books from the crazy crates which we have already published once. We are selling these for one of our former suppliers. The books for this series of crates cover the following states most of which are from the eastern part of our country: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia. We have a few from California, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The books for this crate are Missouri Records, mostly marriage records from various counties and varying time periods. They are materials done by the same author or compiler, Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, a woman who has done well over two hundred books that I know of, and perhaps more. She has worked in the field of producing abstracts of basic genealogy record books, mostly in Missouri, Kentucky and some in other states, for many, many years.

Her books look much alike. They were typed on blue stencils, run through a duplicating machine, stapled together and the binding was sealed with silver tape. They have cream cardstock covers which over time look faded. Lately many of the titles have been photocopied on a modern machine which faithfully copied the duplicated patterns of light and dark type typical of that duplicating machinery. They are readable, but the type does vary in intensity from light to dark. The books are generally done in chronological order, but they are indexed. I will tell you if they are not indexed. These books are all, due to their method of duplication, occasionally, in certain places, difficult to read.

With the aid of a Magnabrite, a magnifier and light concentrating little tool enhancing your ability to see faint printing, you will be good to go! [NOTE: Dome shaped clear polymer is available here-small purse/ pocket size $20, middle desk size $25.]

Early Missouri records were spelled by the clerk who wrote down what he thought he heard. Therefore, be aware that all these surnames may be spelled three or four different ways. Be alert to spelling changes and variations.

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG01: BOOK CG 3: MARRIAGE RECORDS OF COLE COUNTY, MISSOURI 1821-1851. 133 pages. This book is similar to the others, but is much easier to read. Format is the same. WAS $12, NOW $10. Surnames with five or more than five first names are listed here: Alexander, Allen, Amos, Berry, Bolton, Boyd, Brown, Buckner, Campbell, Chambers, Chapman, Clark, Clay, Claybrook, Clendennen, Coffelt, Colvin, Cooper, Crum, Davis, Dixon, Duncan, Durhan, Eads, Enloe, Fletcher, Fowler, Fulkerson, Glover, Gordon, Gouge, Gray, Hackney, Hall, Hampton, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Henley, Hensley, Herndon, Hines, Hoskins, Howard, Hunter, Inglish, James, Jobe, Johnson, Jones, Kenny, Kingery, Lawson, Loving, Martin, McDaniel, McKay, McKinney, McKenzie, McLaughlin, Miller, Moad, Moon, Moore, Morris, Morrow, Mulkey, Murray, Murry, Musick, Newel, Newton, Ogden, Prine, Proctor, Raithel, Ramsey, Ray, Redford, Reed, Rice, Riggins, Riggs, Roark, Roberts, Robinson, Ross, Russell, Sailing, Scott, Scruggs, Shelton, Shipley, Short, Simmons, Smith, Sone, Stark, Steely, Stephens, Stone, Taylor, Templeton, Thompson, Vaughn, Vernon, Vivion, Wade, Walker, Webb, Wells, Williams, Wilson, Wolf and Wolfrum. This book is easier to read than some of the others and has an entirely retyped index which makes using this book a joy! WAS $12, NOW $10

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG01: BOOK CG 4: MARRIAGE RECORDS OF DAVIESS COUNTY, MISSOURI. 1836-1855. Compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, 1959. 53 pages, bound as above. Arranged in chronological order. WAS $8, NOW $6. Surnames with five or more first names are listed here: Allen, Armstrong, Ballinger, Barnes, Black, Breedon, Brown, Cain, Campbell, Coger, Cox, Cravins, Creekmore, Culver, Edwards, Ellis, Frazier, Gardner, Graham, Grant, Green, Groomer, Hall, Hayes, Higgens, Johnson, Jones, Loggitt, Lewis, Mann, McCreary, McCully, McGee, McMurt, Miller, Morgan, Murphy, Myers, Netherton, Nickel, Osbourne, Payne, Perry, Plyman, Prewitt, Reed, Smith, Snyder, Splawn, Taylor, Trosper, Venable, Wall, Williams and Youtsey. Typing is more modern, but reproduction is light. Keep your Magnabrite handy! WAS $8, NOW $6

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG01: CG 5: DOUGLAS COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS 1866-1889, AND WILL RECORDS 1886-1910. Compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, 1961, 69 pages, indexed, WAS $9, NOW $7. The courthouse in this county burned in 1886. No will records were saved. Some marriage records were copied from the original burned sheets. Marriages are standard format in chronological order with some interesting notations when available, such as: [E. B Adington to Martha E. Smith, daughter of Thomas E. Smith and Mary Smith 20 Aug. 1885.] OR [John Wheat of Baxter County, Ark. To Lolle Vickery 21 Sept. 1887.] The will format is in abstracted form such as: [Will of Huldah Price, written 20 Jan. 1909 My children: Minnie Haskett, of Plattsburg, Mo.. Eva Hill, of Garden City, Mo., Charles H. Price, and Willie Lee Price. T. A. Key, Exc. Rec.: 12 Nov, 1910 page 146.] Surnames with 5 or more first names are listed here: Adams, Allen, Alsup, Andrews, Applegate, Arnold, Banks, Barnes, Bass, Bean, Billingsby, Blankenship, Bledsoe, Boon, Bradley, Bragg, Brown, Buchanan, Calhoun, Campbell, Cates, Clinkenbeard, Coats, Cobb, Cole, Collins, Cox, Davis, Day, Deaver, Deckard, Dobbs, Edwards, Elliott, Ellison, Fleetwood, Foster, Freeman, Fry, Garrison, Gentry, Goforth, Graham, Green, Hailey, Hale, Hall, Hargis, Hart, Hartin, Hartley, Haws, Heard, Herndon, Hetherly, Hicks, Hodges, Holeman, Hopper, Horner, Howard, Huff, Huffman, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Kelton, Kester, Kolb, Lakey, Lawrence, Lee, Letsinger, Livingston, Mallonee, Marlen, Martin, Mathes, Matney, McClammer, McIntosh, Meeker, Miller, Mills, Morrison, Nash, Nelson, O’Connell, Payne, Pennington, Phelps, Plumb, Posey, Potter, Pruett, Reed, Reese, Richards, Riley, Ritter, Robertson, Sanders, Shelton, Silvey, Singleton, Smith, Spurlock, Stafford, Stephens, Strong, Sullivan, Summers, Swearingen, Swift, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Turnbull, Turner, Vancil, Walker, Wallace, Walters, Webster, Wheat, Wheeler, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Woods, Wright, Yandall and Young. WAS $9, NOW $7

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG01: BOOK CG 6: MARRIAGE RECORDS OF GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI. 1841-1864. data compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. 58 pages, good condition, re-typed, abstracted in chronological order, indexed. WAS $12, NOW $9. Surnames with five or more first names are listed here: Anderson, Applegate, Ashbrook, Atkinson, Austin, Baker, Bellew, Bennett, Bonson, Blackburn, Brassfield, Brown, Carter, Chapel, Chrisman, Clark, Collier, Collins, Cooper, Cox, Craig, Darnaby, Davis, Dockery, Drinkard, Ellis, Elmore, Ford, Gee, Gentry, Gibson, Grubb, Hall, Harris, Harvey, Hatfield, Hobbs, Holloway, Howard, Ishmal, Johnson, Jones, Keith, Kilbourn, Kirk, Knight, Long, Martin, McCammon, McClure, Merrill, Merryman, Miller, Moore, Munns, Newlin, Newton, Nichols, Peery, Perkins, Priest, Ralls, Robertson, Rooks, Schooler, Scott, Sherrow, Shinn, Sires, Smith, Sperry, Stepp, Stucker, Sutton, Tate, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Tunnell, Turner, Vincell, Walker, Warmouth, Warren, Watts, White, Wild, Williams, Wilson, Witten, Wood, Woods, Wooly, Wynn and Young. Nice copy. WAS $12, NOW $9

Hi! Here we are again with another Crazy Crate of goodies from the library of a former supplier. While used, all books in this crate are in fairly good condition.

We have some more books from Missouri, mostly marriage record books from various counties. It would pay you to watch for every marriage record for your surname, unless you have a very popular surname such as Brown, Jones or Smith, and copy every will record you can find with the date and place for your surnames. As you move up your family tree, some of those branches of yours will fan out to include some of those marriages and wills that you have filed under Branches and Twigs Not Hanging from Our Tree YET! And then you can hang them on their proper branch. Even if you never connect all those branches and twigs, you may be able to help someone else connect them to theirs! All these books are done in chronological order with an index.

MO-CG CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 1: MARRIAGE RECORDS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MISSOURI 1837-1863. Published by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. 57 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped with silver tape. WAS $10, NOW $8. Surnames with four or more first names are listed here [NOTE: The + indicate close to 10 of them!]: Adams, Allen, Alnut, Anderson+, Arbuckle, Austin+, Ballenger, Barsdell, Barnes, Bates, Baxter, Black, Blann, Boon, Bradford, Brassfield, Brown, Bryan, Caldwell, Carr, Carter, Clark+, Coats, Coburn, Collins, Cooper, Cox+, Crawford, Crews, Crow, Curtis, Davis+, Dockery, Ervin, Frith, Gann, Gibbs, Gibson, Gill, Girdner, Gobin+, Goodman, Graves+, Green, Hargrave, Harris, Harrison, Haynes, Hoge, Hicks, Hix, Holbs, Hudgins, Hughes, Hutchinson+, Ireland, Jacobs, Jennings, Johnson+, Jones+, Kirk, Leaton, Lee, Leeper, Liggett, Lucas, Lyons, Manning, Martin+, Mathews, May, McClure, McDaniel, Messer, Miller+, Mitchell, Moore, Offield, Peery, Pend, Preston, Purcell, Reynolds, Riff, Russell, Scott, Shriver, Silvey, Simmans, Simpson, Smith+, Sneed, Snider, Stone, Stout, Taylor, Thompson, Todd, Turner+, Tye, Walden, Walker+, Ward, Ware+, Wells, West, White+, Wilburn, Wilkerson, Wilkinson, Williams+, Wilson+, Winfrey, Winkler+, Wolfskill, Wood+, Woolsey, Wright and Yates. WAS$10, NOW $8

MO-CG CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 2: LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS, BOOK 2, 1863-1880. Data compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. No date, 67 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped. WAS $12, NOW $9. Done as most of her books were, chronologically, and then indexed. Surnames with five or more first names are listed here: If they have 10 or more first names, a plus (+)will follow the surname: Adams, Allen+, Anderson +, Austin, Baker, Belle+, Bowman, Brassfield, Brown+, Bryan, Butler, Campbell+, Carr, Carter, Clark, Clem, Clowdis, Cooper+, Cox, Davis +, Dowell, Drake, Gann, Gibbons, Gibbs, Gibson, Goben, Graham, Graves, Green, Hale, Harris, Hudson, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jackson, Jacobs, Jennings+, Johnson+, Jones+, Martin, Mathews, Morgan, Oliver, Owens, Parker, Patterson, Raynard, Reynolds, Robinson, Smith+, Stewart, Stone+, Thomas, Thompson, Trumbo, Turner, Walker, Ware, White, Williams+, Wilson+ and Wright. WAS $12, NOW $9

MO-CG CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 6: PUTNAM COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1849-1869 and WILLS 1857-1870 & DEEDS 1847-1854. 122 pages, coverstock, stapled and taped, stained back cover does not affect readability of book. Her books sometimes got too close to the coffee! 122 pages, stapled and taped, indexed, cardstock covers. WAS $15, NOW $12. Surnames with five or more first names are listed here: [+ means 10 or more than 10, ++ means 25 or over 25!] Adams+, Agee+, Alexander, Allen+, Anderson+, Armstrong, Atkins, Baird, Barker, Barnett, Baty, Baugh, Bay, Beale, Bennett, Berry+, Bible, Blan, Blanchard, Bland, Boggs, Bradshaw++, Brassfield, Brown++, Bryant+, Bruce, Buckmaster, Burns, Busby, Butler, Cain+, Campbell, Carter, Casteel, Caul, Clark+, Cochran+, Coffman, Collins++, Combs, Cook++, Coon, Cooper, Cowell, Cowen, Cox, Crabtree, Crawford, Crow, Cummings, Dailey+, Davis++, Dickson+, Dorsett, Downing, Draper, Drury, Dunn, Duyre, Ellis+, Ellison, Farris, Flannigan, Forbes, Foster, Fowler, Fox, Franklin, Fuqua, Garigen, Gipson, Gilstrap+, Goodwin, Graham, Green+ Groom, Guffey++, Hall, Harbert+, Hargrave+, Harmon+, Harper, Hart, Hasket, Hastings, Hatcher, Hatfield+, Hayes+, Hazlett, Henness, Henry, Herriford+, Hickman, Holman+, Houston, Howard++, Howry, Hudson, Humphrey+, Hurley, Johnson++, Jones++, Jump, Kerby++, King, Knight, Lane, Lawson+, Ledford+, Lewis+, Lobran, Loe, Logsdon+, Love, Loyd, Mannon, Marshall, Martin++, Martz, McCloud, McClure+, McCollum, McCormick, McCoy, McGee, Mercer, Miller+, Moore+, Morgan+, Morris+, Mullinix+, Mullins, Musgrove, Myers++, Nash, Nelson, Newland, Nichols+, Noggle, Osborn, Parton, Pearson+, Perkins, Petty, Phillips, Phipps, Pickett, Pickenbaugh, Pittman, Pollock, Powell+, Price, Redding, Reed, Rice+, Roberson, Roberts, Rogers, Rose, Rumley, Ryals+, Scott+, Shanklin, Shaw, Shawter, Shelton, Shipley, Simpson, Smith 70!, Snider, Sparks+, Spencer, Steel, Stephens, Stewart, Stinson, Stockton+, Stout, Summers++, Sumpter, Taylor+, Terrell+, Thomas+, Thompson+, Triplett+, VanDyke, Vestal, Walker, Wallace, Walls, Warren+, Watkins, Welks, Wells+, West+, White, Whitman, Wilder, Williams++, Wilson++, Wood+, Wright+, Wycoff and Young++. WAS $15, NOW $12

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 7: MARRIAGE RECORDS OF SALINE COUNTY, MISSOURI, 2 VOLUME SET. VOLUME I covers 1820-1850. 46 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped binding. 1959. Sold with VOLUME II SALINE COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS 26 June 1851-23 September, 1869. 60 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped binding. Two volumes together WERE 2 FOR $20, NOW 2 FOR $18. Volume I surnames with four or more first names include: Allison, Anderson, Ayres, Baker, Beaty, Bell, Berry, Brice, Brown 18, Campbell, Chappell, Copeland, Davis 21, Duncan, Durrett, Edwards, Fall, Ferrill, Fields, Finley, Fisher, Garrett, Green, Gwinn+, Hall, Hamilton, Hanks, Hansbrough, Harris+, Hayne, Hays, Hicklin, Hill, Hollaway, Howard, Huff, Huffman, Jackson, Johnson +, Lewis, Logsden, Marshall, Hollister, McMahan, Miller, Millsap, Mullins, Nave, Pulliam, Reavis, Roberts, Scott, Simmons, Smith+, Spott, Sullivan, Thomas, Thompson+, Thornton, Thrailkill, Vanmeter, Vaughn, Venable, Williams, Wilson, Wood and Woolridge.

VOLUME II includes these surnames with four or more first names: Adams, Allen, Anderson, Aulger, Bailey, Baker, Beaty, Bell, Berry, Blakely, Booker, Bright, Brown 15, Bruce, Buie, Burnsides, Campbell, Carmack, Carpenter, Cheatham, Clark, Claycomb, Collins+, Compton, Cooney, Cooper, Cott, Crosslin, Davis+, Dennis, Dial, Dille, Dudley, Duffy, Duggins, Durrett, Dysart, Edwards, Epperson, Ferguson, Ferrill, Fields, Finley+, Fitzgerald, Ford, Frizzell, Fulkerson, Gallagher, Garrett, Gaulding, Goodman, Gresham, Grove, Gwinn+, Hall, Hancock, Hanly, Harmon, Harris+, Harrison, Harvey, Hawkins+, Haynie, Hays, Herring, Hickman, Hill, Hood, Howard+, Hudson, Huff, Hunt, Hunter, Huston, Jackson+, Johnson+, Jones+, Kelly, King, Kirby, Lewis+, Liggett, Lynch, Marshall, Martin Maupin, Mayfield, McClain, McDaniel, McGuire, McMahan+, Miller+, Mills, Millsap, Moore, Mullins, Murphy, Neff, Norvell, Owens+, Pace, Parsons, Payne, Peterson, Piper, Porter, Potter, Price, Reynolds, Rider, Robertson, Rogers, Rucker, Scott, Shannon, Short, Smith 30, Steel+, Sullivan, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Thorton, Townsend, Trigg, Ulrey, Walker, Wall, Weeden, Wheeler, White, Wiley, Wilhite+,Williams, Willis, Wilson, Wollard, Wood+ and Young. Both volumes WERE 2 FOR $20, NOW 2 FOR $18.

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 8: SALINE COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS VOL. 3 1860-1874. BOOK “C’: Copied by Mrs. Maurice F. Clyde, Missouri State Genealogical Society Chairman 1966-1968, DAR. Published by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. 102 pages, cardstock cover, Stapled and taped binding. WAS $15, NOW $12. From the first marriage, of Joseph T. Farrell and Margaret Wright 3 January 1867, to the marriage of Oscar Crutchfield and Fanny Wooldridge 15 November 1874, this book is full of surnames of people involved in marriage in this early Missouri county. With 23 to 25 marriages a page on 69 pages, about 3,300 Missouri residents tied the knot and helped the state to grow. Surnames with 5 or more than 5 first names are listed here. If over 10 marriages occurred, the surname will be marked with a +. If over 25 first names appear in this book a ++ will appear. This is a treasure trove of pioneer settlers. Adams, Alexander, Allen+, Bailey, Baker+, Ballard, Barnes, Bartlett, Bell, Bradford, Bright, Brooks, Brown++, Campbell, Cooper, Davis+, Dennis, Dickerson, Douglas, Driskell, Edwards, Elgin, Farris, Field, Finley, Fisher, Ford, Fowler, Gaines, Garrett+, Gauldin, Gilliam, Godman, Graves, Green, Griffin, Gwinn+, Hall+, Ham, Hampton, Harris+, Harrison, Haynie, Hays+, Howard, Huff, Hughes, Hunter, Jackson, Johnson++, Jones++, Kelley, Kennedy, Lawless, Lee, Lewis+, Lucas, Lynch, Marshall+, Martin+, Miller+, Montgomery, Moore+, Morgan, Morrisom, Murray, Myers, Neff, Norvell,Odell, Owens, Page, Parker, Pemberton, Perkins, Piper, Porter, Price, Ramsey, Rhoades+, Richardson, Roberts, Robertson, Rogers, Rummons, Scott, Shannon, Shaw, Smith++, Stewart, Sullivan, Taylor+, Thomas+, Thompson, Thornton+, Tucker, Walker+, Webb+, Welch, Wheeler, White+, Wilhite, Williams+, Wilson++, Witcher, Wood, Wright and Young. WAS $15 NOW $12

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 9: SALINE COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS, VOLUME IV, BOOK “D”, 1874 TO 1881. Copied by Mrs. Maurice Clyde, Marshall, MO DAR. Published by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. 1968. 97 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped. WAS $12, NOW $10. Surnames for this volume are not listed here because the list is almost the same as for Volume III. WAS $12 NOW $10

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 10: SULLIVAN COUNTY, MISSOURI MARRIAGE RECORDS, VOLUME I, 1845-1859. Compiled and published by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. This book is done in chronological order and consists of minister’s returns in their abstracted form. 80 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped. WAS $12, NOW $10. . Surnames with five or more than five are listed here. +indicates the surname has 10 or more than 10 first names and ++ indicates there are more than 25 first names. All counts are estimates. Adams, Beacher, Bennett, Bingham, Boyd, Dennis, Frazier, Glidewell, Gose, Green, Grim, Haley, Harris, Hatcher, Hill, Haskins, Hunsaker, Johnson+, Jones, Kelly, Knifong, Lee, Lewis, Martin, Morelock, Myers, Minnis, Montgomery, McGee, Payne, Phillips, Quigley, Schrock, Sevier, Shipley, Smith+, Stanley, Swigart, Taylor+, Thomas, Tipton, Warren, Weaver, Wilhite, Williams+, Wilson and Ward. Have you noticed the many differences in surnames in this book and in the four before it? Different migration trails may account for that! WAS $12 NOW $10

MO-CRAZY CRATE CG02: BOOK 12: WEBSTER COUNTY, MISSOURI. WILL RECORDS 1857-1880 AND MARRIAGE RECORDS 1855-1867. Compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. 1961. This county, in the southwestern part of the state, was organized as a county in 1855. 51 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped. WAS $10

NOW $8. Surname index runs 16 pages, two columns to a page, with 50 lines in each column. About 100 names per page times 16 pages equal about 1,550 names here. Surnames with four or more first names are listed here: Alexander+, Andrews, Barnard, Barnhart, Blackwell, Boles, Bouldin, Bradshaw, Breedlove+, Brown, Bruton, Bryan, Burford, Burk, Cantrell, Cantrill, Casteel, Childress, Compton, Copening, Cunningham, Cummins, Curyear, Davis++, Day, Deckard, Denney, Edwards, Eslinger+, Florence, Foster, Freeman, George+, Glen, Goss+, Green, Hale, Hall, Hampton, Hargis, Hartley, Haymes+, Hendrix, Henslee, Highfield, Hightower+, Holland+, Hollis, Horn, Huff, Hyde, Ichord, Icorn+, Jackson, Jamison, Jennings, Johnson+, Johnston, Jones+, Killiam, King+, Krider, Lane+, Langley, Latimer++, Lee+, Long, Marlin+, Martin, McMahan, Miller, Moore+, Neece, Nichols, Norton+, Owens, Pilkington, Poindexter, Price+, Pursley, Rawson, Reynolds, Robinson, Simpson, Smith+, Taggard, Taggart, Todd, Triplett, Turner+, Walker, Ward, White+, Weaver, Welch, Wells, White, Whitehurst+, Whittenberg, Williams++, Wisby, Wood+, Yandle+ and Young. WAS $10, NOW $8.

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Dear Readers, Have you lost an ancestor? Lots of men left their families at home to go West in the Great Gold Rush. Catch up with them with this great list of single men and families that headed WEST to California and got there by 1850!

CA-CRAZY CRATE CG04: BOOK 8: INDEX TO 1850 CENSUS OF CALIFORNIA BY COUNTY. VOLUME 1. Covers the records from the counties of Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Los Angeles, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Monterey, and Napa. By Alan Bowman. GPC, 8˝X14 inches. Photocopy, softbound, cardstock covers, pages 3-337. Sold as a set with book 9, below, for $40. Three columns of entries on each numbered page. 114 printed pages, photocopied 2 numbered pages on each printed page. Entries on bottom line of many pages are somewhat faded and ease of reading varies with the pages. Sold with book 9 as a set. SALE WERE $50, Now $40. Both volumes for $40.

CA-CRAZY CRATE CG04: BOOK 9: INDEX TO 1850 CENSUS OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO COUNTY - YUBA COUNTY + ADDENDA. VOLUME II. Softbound. 8˝X14 inches. pages 338-605. 3 columns of entries on each numbered page. This half covers the counties of Sacramento, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo and Yuba. Other California counties had not been formed by 1850, but population for the entire state is found here. Plus the Addenda. 114 printed pages, photocopied two numbered pages on each printed page. Entries on bottom line of many pages are somewhat faded and ease of reading varies with the page. A magnabrite would be a great help and problem solver here. Sold as a set with book 8 for $40 for the set of two which covers all the state of California in 1850. Total SALE price for both volumes is now $40 for the set.

IL-CRAZY CRATE CG04: BOOK 14: PRAIRIE FARMERS’ DIRECTORY OF JO DAVIESS CO, IL. Heritage House reprint. softbound. WAS $12, NOW $10. 129 numbered pages printed 2 numbered pages on each printed page. Words copy (red outline stamp) and defective(ink) on front cover; ink swirls where price had been written. Insides appear O. K., except for page 57/58 bound in upside down. All information is included. All members of a family are listed by name. Wife’s maiden name may be found! Other interesting ads and information abound. WAS $12, NOW$8

IL-CRAZY CRATE CG04: BOOK 15: INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING IN HISTORY OF LAKE CO, IL. By John Halsey. R.S. Bates, Publisher, 1912. (History book is not included.) This is the every-name index to this history by the Winnetka Public Library. This is helpful because information on your ancestor may be embedded in the text or in an article or in someone else’s biography. Heritage House. softbound, Front cover is missing. 79 pages. WAS $12, now discounted to $6.

Dear Readers: We are continuing with a crate of materials from the library of our supplier. These books are a mix of states and general interest materials. Hope you find something of use to you at these bargain prices. These are all used books.

We are Heritage House or YOGS. Some of our books were purchased at a close out sale of ours and have the word copy on the cover in a red outline stamp to denote their used, and sometimes discarded, price for covers missing or some other distressed state. I will inform you of the condition in each case. Almost all of these are still available in new condition from us. Only one copy of these used books is available, but we have more new ones if you would like one. Just call us or check online for the new ones.

IL-CRAZY CRATE CG05: BOOK 2: INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING IN STARK CO (IL) AND ITS PIONEERS. Winnetka Co Public Library. Heritage House. Softbound, cardstock covers, stapled. 26 Pages. Water stains on outer upper corner of some pages. Shopworn. Text is good and clear. WAS $10, NOW $6. Surnames with four first names (get just a comma, but no number) or more than four (number given) first names are: Adams, Addis, Albro, Anderson 8, Anthony 7, Armstrong 13, Aten, Atherton 13, Atkinson, Avery 10, Baldwin, Barrett, Beers, Bennett 10, Bevier 9, Blanchard 6, Blood 5, Boardman 9, Bolt, Boyd, Briggs 5, Brooks, Brown 11, Buchanan 6, Bunnell 6, Burns, Buswell 7, Butler 10, Carter 10, Chaffee, Church, Clark 9, Cole 6, Coleman 6, Colwell 18, Cooper 4, Cox 10, Cross 5, Culbertson 7, Curfman, Curtiss 5, Dalrymple, Davidson , Davis 10, Davison 6, Dawson 7, Dennis, Dewey 7, Dixon 11, Dorrance, Drawyer 7, Dray, Driscoll 6, Drummond, Dunbar 7, Dunn 5, Durand 6, Dudley 6, Eagleston, Eby, Eckley, Edwards 7, Elston 10, Ely, Emery 16, Essex 6, Fast, Ferris, Finley 7, Fitch 8, Foster 7, Fowler 6, Fuller 17, Gardner, Geer 7, Gibbs, Gill, Ginrich 6, Grant, Graves 15, Green 7, Greenfield, Greenough 5, Griffin 6, Hall 22, Halsted, Hamilton, Harris, Hazen 5, Headley 6, Henderson, Hester, Hill, Hiner 7, Hitchcock, Hochstrasser, Hodgson 12, Holgate 5, Holmes, Hoppock 5, Howard 6, Hurd 5, Imes 5, Jackson 11, Johnson 23, Jones 20, Jordan 9, Kirkpatrick 5, Lake 6, Lane 7, Lee 6, Leeson 9, Long, Lyle 10, Lyon 5, Martin, Matthews 10, Mayfield 6, McClenahan, McDaniel, McLennan 4, McNaught 5, Miller 17, Miner 10, Mix, Montooth 5, Moore 8, Morgan, Morris 7, Murchison 7, Murphy 5, Murray 5, Myers, Nelson 7, Newton 19, Nicholas 5, Oliver 9, Olmsted 5, Oziah 7, Parrish 11, Perry 5, Peterson 5, Phenix 7, Pollock, Pomeroy 5, Porter 7, Powell 5, Pratt 6, Prattz, Redding 8, Reed 13, Rhodes 15, Rickey, Riddle, Roberts, Round 5, Rounds 7, Rouse 5, Rule, Rutherford, Scott 5, Shaver 6, Shaw, Sheets 6, Shockley 5, Simmerman 15, Smith 37, Snell 5, Snyder 7, Springer 6, Stevens 5, Stevenson, Stewart, Stoddard 5, Stoper, Stone 7, Sturm 28, Swank 6, Sweet 9, Tapp 5, Taylor 11, Thomas 10, Thompson 8, Thurston 7, Timmons, Todd 7, Trickle 9, Trumbull 14, Turner, Umbaugh, Vinson, Ward 6, White 22, Wiley 6, Wilkinson 5, Williams 17, Wilson 18, Winslow 5, Winter 7, Witter, Wood(s), Wooden 5, Woodward 5, Worley, Wright 13, Wrigley and Young 6. WAS $10, NOW $6

IL-CRAZY CRATE CG05: BOOK 5: WARREN CO IL 1850 CENSUS [TRANSCRIPTIONS]. By Maxine Worner. Heritage House. Softbound, cardstock covers, 91 pages. Stapled and taped. Front cover stained. Back cover missing. These are transcriptions not just an index! WAS $18, NOW $9. Surname indexed. Surnames with entries on four or more pages: [Note: Surnames may also appear more than one time on a page. Surnames are only counted once on each page. Over 10 pages are specially marked.] Abbot, Adams, Allen [12 pp.], Baker, Baldwin, Berry, Black, Bond, Brown [16 pp.], Brownlee, Buck, Butler [13 pp.] Carr, Clark, Claycomb, Clayton, Cole, Cox, Cunningham, Curtis, Daniel, Davidson, Davis, Earp, Edwards, Foster, Gibson, Giles, Graham, Gray, Grover, Gunter, Haley, Hall, Hill, Hogue, Holeman, Jackson, Johnson [13 pp.], Jones [12 pp.], King, Lee, McCreary, McIntire, Martin, Miller, Moore, Morris, Murphy, Nash, Palmer, Parker, Patterson, Peckenpaugh, Perkins, Porter, Randall, Ray, Reynolds, Robinson [10 pp.], Shelton, Simmons, Smith [26 pp.], Sterling, Stewart, Stroud, Taylor, Thomas, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Webb, Webster, White, Wilcox, Williams, Wood, Woods, Wright and Young. WAS $18, NOW $9

IL-CRAZY CRATE CG05: BOOK 6: WASHINGTON CO IL 1850 CENSUS. By Maxine Wormer. Heritage House. Softbound. 81 pages. Front cover stained. These are transcriptions not just an index. WAS $16, NOW $8. Surnames appearing on four or more pages are: Adams, Anderson, Armstrong, Atchison, Ayres, Barns, Boyd, Brown, Burns, Campbell, Carr, Christian, Clarke, Cook, Cox, Crain, Darter, Davis, Farmer, Foster, Gibson, Goodner, Gunn, Hall, Harris, Henderson, Hoffman, Hood, House, Jack, Jackson, Johnston(e), Jolliff, Jones, Kennedy, Livesay, Logan, Lowe, Lyon, Martin, McCord, Meyer, Miller [12 pp.], Mitchell, Moore, Morgan, Newman, Pate, Patterson, Phillips, Reed, Robertson, Rogers, Rountree, Smith [14 pp.], Stewart, Summers, Tate, Taylor [10 pp.], Thompson, Walker [11 pp.], Wayman, Weaver, Wheelis, White, Whittenburg, Williams, Wilson and Wolf. WAS #16, NOW $8

OH-CRAZY CRATE CG05: BOOK 14: WARREN CO OH MARRIAGES 1803-1812. By Colleen Alice Ridlen. Printed by The Researchers, softbound, stapled, taped. 23 pages. 13 copies. NEW, NOT USED. WERE $12, NOW $10. Surnames with three or four (,) five or more (actual number) first names include: Anderson, Baker, Baldwin 8, Benham, Biggs, Blackford 5, Bone, Bonta, Bowyer, Brandstrettor, Brown, Campbell, Carpenter, Carter, Case, Cassle, Clark 13, Clevinger, Corwin, Cowa/en, Cox, Creamer, Cummins, Cunningham, Curl, Curtis, Davis 5, Death 5, Dill 6, Drake 6, Everman 5, Fields, Fox 7, Fry 5, Garrard, Goodpasture, Hall, Harris, Hart, Hathaway 8, Hays, Heaton 5, Hester, Hunt, Hunter, Johnson 5, Jones 7, Kelly 5, Kelsey 4, Kibby, Kirby 5, Lee 5, Leonard 6, Ligg(e/i)t, Little 4, Ludlum, McCarty, McDonnald, McGriff, McGuire, Maloy, Martindale, Miller 5, Mills 6, Morris 6, Morrison, Mounts, Mullin, Murphy 7, Nutt, Osborn, Painter, Phillips, Porter, Price 7, Pugh, Ray, Reed 6, Reeder 5, Richardson, Robb, Roberts, Ross 8, Runyan 5, Seamon/s, Serring, Shaw 6, Smith 10, Snook, Spray 4, St. John/s, Stewart 6, Sutton, Swanger, Swift, Taylor, Thomas 5, Thompson 6, Todd, Townsend/t, Trimble, Tullis, Walker, Ward 5, Watson, Williams 8, Wilson 6 and Wright 9. NEW COPIES. WERE $12, NOW $10

KY-CRAZY CRATE CG06: BOOK 7: MARION COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1850 CENSUS. By Mary Jo McGuire, Sylvia Taylor and T. Gerald Thompson, 1982, McDowell Publications, WAS $15, NOW $12. This computer listing is far more than an index. The household number and family number begin the entry, followed by the surname and first name of each occupant with their age, sex, occupation, if given, value of real estate, state or country of birth, and any remarks are noted such as illiterate, in school, married in year, followed by an every name index. Includes names of residents of Calvary Female Institution. Done in two columns in landscape mode, each column is numbered for a total of 201 pages, 2-up on each sheet of paper on the front and 2 up on the back of each sheet, cardstock covers shielded by acetate sheets, plastic strip bound and taped. Nice presentation of the 2,826 residents of this county in 1850. Surnames with ten or more first names are: Abell, Alvey, Bicket/t, Bland, Blare/Blair, Brown, Cissell, Clarke, Cooper, Daugherty, F(a/e)rrill, Graham, Graves, Ham(e/i)lton, Hughes, Jarboe, Knott, Lanham, Martin, Mattingly+, Mills, Mudd, Phillip/s, Purdy, Raley, Ray, Sapp, Sims, Smith, Smock, Smothers, Spalding+, Thompson+, Tucker and Walker. Nice work! Like new Condition. WAS $15, NOW $12

KY-CRAZY CRATE CG06: BOOK 11: HISTORY OF OWENSBORO AND DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY. By Hugh O. Potter, ©1974 by The Daviess County Historical Society, Owensboro, KY, various chapters have been contributed by experts in their particular fields of expertise. 265 pages, hardbound, cover is faded where other books have rubbed it, otherwise in good shape. Many pictures, indexed. WAS $35, NOW $30. Double-fold-air view of the city in 1881 on both sides of interior cover. The city has had three names-Yellow Banks in 1798, then Rossboro for David Ross and then Owensboro after Col. Abraham Owens. The history of the city is explored nicely with enough detail to be interesting. There are biographical sketches of the men who were instrumental in improving the city. Included are many anecdotes. Stories about the rich and famous who called Owensboro home for a time are interesting to read. If you had ancestors that lived in Owensboro, KY, and you read this book, you’ll feel the urge to move back to this forward-looking city with a past they are proud of! WAS $35, NOW $30

KY-CRAZY CRATE CG06: BOOK 15: CASEY COUNTY BIRTHS, KENTUCKY VITAL RECORDS, SERIES 2 VOLUME 23 – BIRTH RECORDS 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1903, 1904, 1906 & 1907. By Frances T. Ingmire, 95 pages, cardstock covers, stapled. WAS $12, NOW $10. This appears to be a photocopied 84 pages, plus 85-95 are copies of an index bound with the book. Format in landscape mode across length of page includes: Date, name of child, Sex [m or f], condition A or D [alive or dead], name of father, name of mother, color W, B, M: [white, black, mulatto]. There are the names of 36 children on each full page. Since book is a photocopy and has been used, price WAS $12., NOW $10

This crate will be concerned with some of the popular census indexes. Most of them are the ones from Accelerated Indexing Systems, the brainchild of Ronald Jackson and the first firm of their kind to attempt to do all the United States Censuses. One of the largest computer indexing projects ever attempted and, for the most part, completed.

A few years later we ordered a computerized census index for North Carolina done by Mr. Jackson. Imagine how helpful it was for us to look inside this huge book and find many of the heads of households of the families we were looking for listed with information as to exactly what county and page number to use to find them on the census microfilm. Our research began to grow at a furious pace. Using this book was so much easier than looking through every census page, haunted by the specter of missing or misreading a name and having to do the search over again. Now here they all were, misspellings and all, lined up in alphabetical order. Genealogists rightly considered the census indexes to be the eighth wonder of the world!

When they first were published, they were very expensive costing up to hundreds of dollars each depending on the size of the book and the number of volumes it took to cover a specific state for a specific time period. Here are the index volumes which we received with the library we are helping to liquidate.

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 1: 1820 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR INDIANA. Compiled by Willard Heiss. Published by the Genealogy Section of the Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis (NOT A.I.S). This is one of the best census abstractions ever done. 1966. Reprinted in 1975 when all the less than 20 corrections that had been found were corrected for this book. WAS $25, SALE PRICE NOW $20. The microfilm pages number 461. The printed transcription has two pages per page of the book. Township data is not included and marginal notes of the census taker are also not shown or recorded here.

The original record of the 1820 census for Indiana is found today in the National Archives in Washington, D. C. Microfilm is readily available and can be purchased today or it can be read free at many libraries. The entire census collection through 1930, or many of its parts can also be read through the Internet. I do recommend that the census work be done on the Internet for you are looking at the microfilm of the original census and therefore, have the most authentic source.

Microfilm for the Fourth Census of the U.S. for 1820 for Indiana is available on three rolls. Roll number 13 holds the counties of Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Gibson, Jackson, Jefferson, Pike, Posey and Randolph Counties. Roll number 14 holds the schedules for Crawford, Delaware, Dubois, Harrison, Jennings, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Orange, Owen, Perry, Scott, Switzerland, Vanderburgh, Vigo, Wabash and Washington Counties. Roll number 15 contains Fayette, Ripley, Spencer, Sullivan, Warrick and Wayne. Other counties had not yet been formed at the time of the taking of this census. The schedule for Daviess County is not known to exist although it was a county at that time. This book has been checked and is as reliable a copy as can be expected given the literacy, handwriting and spellings of the period.

The best news of all is that this census copy includes all the numbers of the age groups in the household separated by sex just as they were on the original.

In this book the sample excerpt is: Vantrease, William. Only the name of the head of household appears on the schedule. Following his name is #135 the page on which his entry appears.

Then comes Oran[ge], the county of his residence. Then comes: [000011 00501 0300]. This array of numbers has the following interpretation.

0-number of white males 16-18. [This number was also included in the next entry.]

The absence of names for the six females and the additional man age 26-44 makes this census not as valuable as it could have been if the actual first names had been there. However, that question was not included until 1850. The other stipulation is even more daunting. There is no valid reason to believe that these people are all part of the same family or, indeed, even related. Anyone living in the household was counted. So we can not say with any certainty that the five girls were daughters of the older man and woman, nor was the younger man necessarily their son.

There is little reason to check the actual census in this particular case, because the book was updated when errors or misinterpretations were found. Of course you would check one time for verification purposes, which procedure should always be followed with any acquired or abstracted materials; and, most importantly to check for the township in which this entry appears, if given. However, many times they were not.

Always search for the smallest jurisdiction for your ancestors. It is better to search for a ‘William Hall’ in a select township or a small town in Indiana. It would be daunting to search for one man by that name somewhere in Indiana as you will find there will be too many of them. One of the pitfalls in searching huge databases is the peril of finding a name and assuming that is the individual for which you are searching when indeed that gentleman is not the right age, not in the right place, and indeed, is not related to your fellow at all.

That only leads to mythology not genealogy! And to many miffed and confused descendants wondering why they can not follow the scenario for your family you have built. You are building, not a pedigree, but a nightmare, for your descendants!

Genealogy means many small steps taken in the effort to build a pedigree. Each pedigree is like a jigsaw puzzle, building a picture of your ancestry one piece at a time! Each step must be tested in many ways to be sure it is not a MIS-step. The larger the database, the more options you have, but also the more risk of making a mistake. I download all materials from the databases on yellow paper to remind me of caution in using it at all and to continue the search for proof closer to the original document than the mention of it on a Website.

Further records on the Van Treese family will be found on this family in the Orange County, IN, Courthouse at Paoli, which has the distinction of being the only courthouse in this nation in which I have been locked, fortunately only during the lunch period. Ray was with me, so I was not upset by this and the courthouse staff was most apologetic. All-in-all, it just makes a great story! Book WAS $25, NOW $20.

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 2: INDIANA 1830 CENSUS INDEX. By Ronald Vern Jackson and Gary Ronald Teeples. Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., (A.I.S.), 137 pages, WAS $45, NOW SALE PRICED AT $40. Standard format consists of surname of the head of household, followed by the first name; county shown with a four-letter abbreviation; page number of the actual entry; and either no twp l (no township listed) or the town/township name, if given. There are three columns, 137 names per column, per page. Sample entries follow:

See what I mean about the spelling! Actual census gives age breakdown for both male and females living in this home. $45. Now sale priced at $40.

CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 3: INDIANA 1840 FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS OF INDIANA. Compiled by the Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library. A Bicentennial project of the Genealogy Section of the Indiana Historical Society, 1975. WAS $40. NOW $35 374 pages, 77 entries per column, 4 columns per page.

Sample entries look like this reflecting surname, first name, county and page number only:

The 1840 census gives the name of only the head of the household, but the actual census gives the age breakdown of both males and females. It must be remembered that anyone living in that household was counted as a member of that household whether related or not in the 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840. There are five-year age groups for those under 2 and 10-year age groups for those over 20 on the 1840 census. Pensioners are also indicated reflecting service in the previous wars. Microfilm for many of the census manuscripts is available in most large libraries, in the National Archives Regional Branches and on several Internet sites. This index assists in finding your ancestors. These are especially helpful because these are printed indexes which do not change when you attempt to find an entry again or if you are looking for varied spellings. Something, as you can see, very important for my Van Treese line! WAS$40, NOW $35

CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 7: KENTUCKY 1820 CENSUS INDEX. By Ronald Vern Jackson and Gary Ronald Teeples & David Schaefermeyer. Accelerated Indexing Systems (A.I.S.) © 1976, 168 pages, hardbound. WAS $35, NOW $30. This is an index, no age break-downs are available here, but they are on the census microfilm. Sample Entries:

VANTREESE, FREDERICK FLEMING COUNTY (KY) PAGE 041, NO TWP L[ISTED] This one is mine!

VERTREESE, JACOB Gray[son] CO. (KY) [made from Hardin & Ohio Cos. in 1810] PAGE 154 No Twp L

CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 9: KENTUCKY 1850 CENSUS INDEX. Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson and Gary Ronald Teeples. Accelerated Indexing Systems (A.I.S.). 469 pages, hardbound. Was $95, now $85. There are too many people in this one to list surnames from the index. Binding is beginning to fray slightly along the binding edge, contents good, three columns of data per page. This is the first census that lists everyone in the household by name, age and sex. This index lists head of households and people with a different surname than the head of households, but it is a lot better than searching for one spelling surname and picking your ancestor from the few that show up!

Even I am not sure if [VAN TEEZE, BARNETT, Boone Co, page 141] is a part of the family! [VANTREET, ISAAC of Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 294] may be. The 4 VANTRICE entries—[VANTRICE, DANIEL, Jessamine Co. p.018], [VANTRICE, SARAH, Caldwell Co. p. 214], [VANTRICE, THOMAS W. Caldwell Co. p. 214] and [VANTRICE, WILLIAM from Daviess Co. p 441] may be. The [VANTRIN, JOHN of Fleming Co. p. 350 Mt. Carmel] could be. The [VENTRESS, E. H. from, Union Co. p. 458] needs to be checked out. The [VERTRAS, WILLIAM in Hardin County, p. 353] probably is a member of that crowd. VERTRA, ROBERT H. p. 433 Hardin Co. is a likely candidate. [VERTRAS, WILLIAM, Hardin Co. p. 353]; [VERTREES, JAMES A., Hardin Co. p. 393]; [VERTREES, JOHN p. 435 Hardin Co.]; [VERTREES, THOMAS W. Grayson Co., p. 368]; and [VERTRIES, WILLIAM of Meade Co. p. 185] might, or might not, be related to [VERTRUS, ISAAC, Meade Co. p. 171] who might or might not be related to [VERTRUS, ISAAC of Hardin Co. p. 354] who might or might not be related to [VERTRUS, JAMES of Hardin Co. p. 392] and where. oh where, does [VERTRUS, THOMAS, Hardin Co. p. 395] fit into this picture? Maybe he fits with [VERTRUS, WILLIAM D. in Hardin Co. on page 311]! Maybe one of them, or more, fits with [VIRTRUS, ELIZABETH in Hardin County on page 365]. And is [VONTRISS, MARY, page 514 in Union County] a part of this family? Are they all part of my Van Treese family? Or not? Here is where a part of the 41 verified spellings of Van Treese come from! You can note that not one single family in Kentucky spelled our surname the way my family does now! Well, no one said this hobby/puzzle was going to be easy, did they? And this is just the census from one year of one state!!! WAS $95 NOW $85

CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 12: MASSACHUSETTS 1800 CENSUS INDEX. Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples and David Schaefermeyer. Accelerated Indexing Systems. 1973. Second Printing 1977. WAS $40, NOW $35. This is another of the really useful census indexes done by these early leaders in the application of computer technologies to huge databases of information such as the U. S. Federal Census. This one holds as well as the name of the heads of households, the county jurisdiction and the page number of the census, the detail as to the number of people in the households broken down into age groups. No Van Treese family here. Age details are first males under 10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45 & over. Then females in the same age parameters, then all others and then all slaves. WAS $40, NOW $35

CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 14: TENNESSEE 1820 CENSUS INDEX. Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson and Gary Ronald Teeples. Accelerated Indexing Systems. ©1974. 150 pages, 4 pages of data shrunk to 1. Surprisingly readable because of the clarity of the font. Magnabrites (Yogs $25) would be very helpful for these fine descriptive and numerical purposes. Hardbound. WAS $40, NOW $35. Sample entries: VENTERS, SALLY S., STEWART CO. TN P. 110 221100-1121-0

William, John and Valentine are all first names that occur in the first generation of my family to reach America. WAS $40, NOW $35.

The columns on the 1820 census reflect a change made by the government in the way information was collected by the age group. Males first column is under 10, second column is for 10-16! Third column is for 16-18 and note Fourth Column is for 16-26 which indicates a duplication. , fifth column is for 26-45 and the sixth column is for 45 & older. The free white female columns have no count made of just 16-18 year olds, but all others are there. The extra column on the 1820 census is for 16-18 year old males only. Checking for men of military age only? The columns for number of slaves and number of free people of color in the household appear only when the column reflects actual numbers. WAS $40, NOW $35

CRAZY CRATE CG08: BOOK 15: TENNESSEE 1840 CENSUS INDEX. Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples and David Schaefermeyer. Accelerated Indexing Systems (A.I.S.). ©1976, 260 pages, 3 columns each, hardbound. WAS $55, NOW $50. This book follows the format of surname, first name, county abbreviation, page number and either no twp l[isted] or twp or division, if listed. Sample entries include: VANTRE,* GIBSON CO., P. 225, NO TWP L

These are especially helpful because these are printed indexes which do not change when you attempt to find an entry again or if you are looking for varied spellings. Something, as you can see, absolutely necessary for my Van Treese line! $65, NOW $60.

I have not done any work in TN records, so these may, or they may not be a part of our family. This has sure been a surprising trip through some really interesting records. If this has not done anything but help make you aware of the many possible variations in spelling you may encounter AND why it is so wise to check more than one census index, I will have done a good job for today!

Here are two more census indexes. I moved them here to keep all the census indexes together, but order them by these crate numbers.

VA-CRAZY CRATE CG13: BOOK 6: VIRGINIA 1800 CENSUS INDEX FOR ACCOMACK COUNTY ONLY. Editors were Ronald Vern Jackson and Gary Ronald Teeples. ©1976, This is an A.I.S. (Accelerated Indexing Systems) book. 13 pages + explanations, hardbound, WAS $20 NOW $14

NE-CRAZY CRATE CG13: BOOK 8: HEADS OF FAMILIES AT THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1790 IN VERMONT, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966, softbound in clear plastic file with plastic binding taped. 95 pages. Covers all the state’s counties include, Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Orange, Rutland, Windham and Windsor. Some staining of lower outside and bottom pages but no print has been rendered unreadable in any way. WAS $20, NOW $15

CGO9 CRAZY CRATE –HI! We are back again with another assortment of books from the gentleman who is liquidating the library of genealogy books his wife had collected previously. She had several ancestors who had come to Virginia quite early in the 1600s. Most of these books/booklets are photocopies of items no longer available that were done at various celebratory times in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was pleased at how much she learned about early Virginia colonists in these books. We are pleased to be able to make these available to you.

VA-CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 2: CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH’S AMERICA, Selections from his Writings. Edited by John Lankford. Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Rowe, Publishers, ©1967. $20. NOW SALE PRICED AT $17. This is a nice photocopy of the book from the Indiana University Library, made two pages up and nicely stapled and taped with a cardstock cover, 195 pages, covering excerpts from his writings. Really interesting reading. No index. Lots of names. $20. NOW SALE PRICED AT $17.

VA-CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 3: VIRGINIA A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY. By Louis D. Rubin, Jr., W. W. Norton & Company, 77 pages in the book photocopied two-up in this book. Beautiful clear copy. $10. NOW SALE PRICED AT $8. This book covers the Colonial Era, The Plantation Era, The Pre-War Era and The Revolutionary Era. This is a history book, a real glimpse at what really happened during these early times in Virginia from an insider’s point of view. $10. NOW SALE PRICED AT $8.

VA-CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 4: PENINSULA PILGRIMAGE By Elizabeth Valentine Huntley, The Pyne Press, Princeton. 398 pages, $20. NOW SALE PRICED AT $17. Photocopied two-up on a page in a two-sided book that is a joy to read and with lovely old photographs of the plantation houses, the churches from Richmond, VA to Williamsburg by way of the Old Indian Trail. See the 27 pictures of Richmond along with explanations, tales, and facts about the houses and their owners. The Old Indian Trail yields 18 more pictures and stories followed by 66 more pictures of Williamsburg, 2 more of the Pocahontas Trail and 11 more in Yorktown. Three stories from Jamestown, several from Surry County and 13 from the Colonial Trail that led to Appomattox Manor are in this book. This is a photographer’s tour of the most famous sites in Virgnia. Wish I could visit them all! Indexed. $20 NOW SALE PRICED AT $17.

VA-CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 5: HISTORIC SHRINES OF VIRGINIA By William Edward Carson, Chairman of the Virginia Commission on Conservation and Development in Collaboration with H. J. Eckenrode, Virginia State Historian. Published by the State Commission of Conservation and Development, 1933. Map on front cover. A photocopied booklet having to do with important Virginia Landmarks. 75 pages, green cardstock covers, stapled and taped. WAS $15. NOW $12. 35 of the finest buildings in Virginia’s History preserved, pictured and history detailed. Covers Arlington, Christ Church in Alexandria, Mount Vernon, Dogue Creek Mill, Gunston Hall, Pohick Church, Mary Washington;s Home, Mercer’s Apothecary Shop, Kenmore, The Monroe Shrine, Jackson’s Deathplace, St. John’s Church in Richmond, The Poe Shrine, The Confederate Museum, St. Paul’s Church in Richmond, Blandford Church, Westover, Brandon, Jamestown, Bruton Parish Church, The Wythe House, The Powder Horn, plus 13 more. Would serve as a great itinerary for touring Virginia’s most historic sights. WAS $15. NOW $12.

VA-CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 07: VAN METEREN’S VIRGINIA 1607-1612. By John Parker. University of Minnesota Press, 1961. 102 pages. Indexed. $9. NOW SALE PRICED AT $7. The Dutch influence on America in this early time period has not been given its due. Remember New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant and the Pilgrim’s years in Leyden! There are few Dutch remains on the eastern shore of North America where Virginia lies to give physical evidence of the interest and intentions of the young republic of the United Netherlands during its emergence as a colonial power. Yet there are many similarities in government and religion that bound the Dutch and American peoples. Emanuel van Meteren, a Dutch Merchant living in London, took a deep interest in the English experience in Virginia and recorded some of the earliest events in the history of that colony. Here they are, written from his viewpoint with notes of explanation from historians. WAS $9, NOW $7.

CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 8: MOTHER EARTH—LAND GRANTS IN VIRGINIA 1607-1699. By W. Stitt Robinson, Jr. Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas. Virginia 350^th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, Williamsburg, 1957. Book 10. 77 pages, Bibliography. This is another of the series of historical booklets, most sized to be printed two-up on 8.5” by 11” paper. WAS $10 NOW $7. This booklet explains how land moved from being under the total control of the Indian to the total possession of the white man. Why they did it and how they did it explained. WAS $10, NOW $7

CRAZY CRATE CG09: BOOK 11: THE THREE CHARTERS OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON. With Seven Related Documents 1606-1621. 128 pages. Photocopied two pages to one sheet, one-sided for clarity. $20 for this book containing all of this. This is book #4 in the set published by the Virginia 350^th Anniversary Celebration Corporation in an effort to make the earliest documents which are still available to historians now available to the great numbers of genealogists with a compulsion to read these early documents in an attempt to find their ancestors’ information. What really happened in those early years? This question still troubles many present-day genealogists who want to obtain authentic information that can be not only trusted, but also worthy of being cited, as proof in today’s genealogy. Bound with book #5 THE VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON 1606-1624 by Wesley Frank Craven, Professor of History at Princeton University. Photocopied two-up on twenty-nine 8.5” by 11” sheets, one-sided for clarity. A dark clear copy makes this very readable. Together these two books bound as one with orange cardstock covers and a stapled, taped binding will introduce you to the motives and thoughts of the men who financed this epic adventure and the end they had in mind for doing it. For both neatly bound together WAS $18, NOW $15.

WELCOME BACK: On this current crate we will see some marriage books (prepared by the firm of our supplier for her research library) that were in very short supply and therefore do not appear in our catalog. The number of these books currently in print, does vary, so I will let you know at the end of each of these reviews how many of each title we have. There are simply too many names in these indexes or in these alphabetically arranged books to list them here. These books are not that expensive and if your research leads to these counties you would be wise to have these books at hand as neighbors and family names abound herein. And if you are wise, you will be careful to gather information on brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and cousins as you go. If you don’t, you will never find out who has the family Bible! Or Grandpa’s daily diaries or Grandma’s scrapbook or photo albums!

When people come to our shop, I do not need to know what surname they are searching first. In order to best help them find the materials they need, FIRST I need to know where their ancestors lived at the time period the ancestor was there and where they should be looking and are now researching. Everyone knows this hobby (obsession?) is done in layers called generations. If the research you do takes place in Indiana in 1860, I can only show you the row of nine Indiana bookshelves. But if you can tell me that your research is in Indiana in the 1830s in Wayne County, my first question would be – Do you have any reason to think they might have been Quakers?

Many of the people I talk with just say they do their research on the Internet. I don’t want to know where THEY are when they do it! I want to know where their ancestors lived at the point in their research where and when they have questions!!!

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 1: WASHINGTON COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGES 1815-1833: Researchers Publication, 1993, 56 pages, nice quality cardstock covers, stapled and taped. NEW $11 each, 6 copies

CRATE CG10: BOOK 3: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA WILL AND MARRIAGE RECORDS. By Mable V. Shanklin, Heritage House, 1969, 65 pages, cardstock cover, small spots sprinkled on cover, otherwise, good condition, stapled. USED. WAS $10, NOW $8. 1 copy

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 5: HAMILTON COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGE RECORDS 1837-1845. By Ruth M. Slevin. 1953, 19 pages, photocopy, plastic green transparent file cover. USED. WAS $14 NOW $8, 1 copy.

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 6: HAMILTON COUNTY, INDIANA WILL RECORD BOOK A, 1823-1838. Compiled and published by Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire, 1980. 143 pages, cardstock cover, stapled and taped, Used, first two pages are photocopies, the rest are the original printed copy. WAS $18, NOW $14. 1 copy

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 7: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM THE GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, INDIANA BY GOODSPEED BROS. & CO. 1884, 60÷4=15 pages. [NOTE: SULLIVAN COUNTY PORTION OF THE BOOK IS NOT INCLUDED!] bound with EARLY HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA By Uncle Jack Baber, 1875, 96 pages ÷ 4 = 24. Both reprinted by the Researchers. This unique set of books includes both of these histories. Their pages have been shrunk to fit four pages on one 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper. They are surprisingly readable especially if you use a MagnaBrite or other magnification aid. Each book has cardstock covers and the two are bound together in a plastic folder. USED. WAS $15, NOW $12 for the pair. 1 copy

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 9: FOUNTAIN COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGE RECORDS, BOOK I, 1826-1839 bound with FOUNTAIN COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGE RECORD BOOK 2, 1839-1848 AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION 1832-1846. Author of both books was Miriam C. Luke, G.R.S. and publisher of both books was Heritage House. Book is indexed by the page number of the actual marriage record in the original books found in the courthouse. I counted 87 pages in the two books together. USED. WAS $15, NOW $12, 1 copy

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 11: FOUNTAIN COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGE RECORDS, BOOK I, 1826-1839. By Miriam Luke, 18 pages, photocopy, punched and placed in three ring pocket and clasp folder. USED. $5 1 copy

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 12: FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGES, 1837-1845. By Ruth M. Slevin. By the Researchers, 1990, alphabetically first by grooms and then alphabetically by brides. 54 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped, NEW. $8. 5 copies

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 13: FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGES 1819-1830. By Colleen Alice Ridlen, The Researchers, 27 pages, cardstock covers, stapled and taped, integrated men and women entries so all, male and female of the same surname are filed together. Each entry bears the full information. NEW, $8. 3 copies

IN-CG CRAZY CRATE CG10: BOOK 14: 1850 INDIANA MORTALITY SCHEDULE, VOLUME II, COUNTIES ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY FOR HENDRICKS THROUGH POSEY[only]. Transcribed and indexed by Lowell M. Volkel., Published by Heritage House, 1976, ©1971 Lowell Volkel, 109 pages, cardstock covers, stapled three places because of its size. WAS $12, NOW $10. There were eleven columns in the 1850 Mortality Schedule. They include, and so does this book, all the information that is on the actual schedule. You will find: 1.) The name of every person who died during the year ending 1^st June 1850, whose usual place of abode at the time of his death was in this family. 2.) Age. 3.) Sex. 4.) Color-White, Black or Mulatto. 5.) Free or slave. 6.) Married or widowed. 7.) Place of birth, naming the State, Territory or Country. 8.) Month in which the person died. 9.) Profession, Occupation or Trade. 10.) Disease or Cause of Death and 11.) Number of days ill. $12 1 copy [Note: Books 1 Adams up to Hendricks Cos.,$12 NEW. Book 2 Hendricks Co. to Posey County, $12 NEW, and Book 3 which covers from the end of Posey to Whitley County $12 NEW are available from us in new condition and together, all three will have the entire state covered. Call 1-800-419-0200 for the set of three NEW copies at $30 for the set OR get a SINGLE volume of any of the above at $12 each.

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG12: BOOK 2: LAWRENCE COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGES 1818-1834 bound with LAWRENCE COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGE RECORDS 1835-1843 and bound with LAWRENCE COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGE RECORDS 1844-1851. By Charles M. Franklin Vol.1 © 1981, 31 pages, cardstock cover. Vol.2 ©1983, 31 pages cardstock cover. Vol. 3, ©1983, 32 pages, cardstock cover. Separately indexed. WAS $25, NOW $22. 1 copy

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG12: BOOK 4: DIRECTORY OF MARRIAGE RECORD INFORMATION IN THE GENEALOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE INDIANA STATE LIBRARY By Vera Mae Moudy, 1981, 50 pages. Proper bibliographic information for the above books found in this excellent library. With this information in hand you can go to this library and check for your ancestry in any or all of these references. You know exactly what you are going to see! This book is an excellent research list. The Indiana State Library does have a list of researchers who utilize their library. Fred Engleking does research there and works at YOGS shop part-time. He can also check any or all of these for you. Call Fred, here at the shop on Tuesdays, to talk about research he can do for you at this great library OR in any book you see on our website. Price USED WAS $8, NOW $5. 1 copy

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG12: BOOK 8: INDEX TO THE 1900 CENSUS OF SCOTT COUNTY, INDIANA. By The Researchers, stapled in a green plastic manuscript cover. There are 108 names per page!. 20 pages, Includes all families in the book. I am abstracting the index to include only surnames with five or more people in the county. Abbott, Alexander, Allen, Alsup, Amick, Amos, Anderson, Applegate, Arbuckle, Baldwin, BBartle, Barton, Baxter, Bennett, Berry, Blair, Blizzard, Blocher, Boles, Boyd, Bridgewater/s, Broady, Brown, Campbell, Carlile, Carr, Chandler, Chasteen, Christie, Clark, Clegg, Cline, Cochran, Coleman, Collins, Compton, Cooley, Cox, Craig, Cravens, Crawford, Davis, Deal, Dean, Dismore,

Format is Abbott, Alexander 123-10-B of the 1850 Scott County, IN Federal Census. Get them all for $5. 1 copy.

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG12: BOOK 10: EARLY WILLS AND ESTATE SETTLEMENTS, SPENCER COUNTY, INDIANA, [Abstracts from the] ORIGINAL RECORD BOOK 1818-1831 AND WILL RECORD BOOK “A” 1833-1839. By Miss Christine Young, Mrs. Ethel Smith and Mrs. Hazel M. Hyde. YOGS (that is us). ©1971 Heritage House (that is us, too!) 38 pages, cardstock covers, stapled, WAS $10, Used $8. 1 copy

IN-CRAZY CRATE 12: BOOK 14: PARKE COUNTY, INDIANA MARRIAGES 1831-1843. By Colleen Alice Ridlen. 43 pages, stapled, taped, cardstock covers. This lady has abstracted marriage records for 84 of the 92 counties in Indiana. She really could read the clerk’s often hurried scrawl better than anyone I ever knew. She and her husband, Earl, were the very first visitors to our shop on the day we opened, January 5, 1975. Earl and I turned out to be fifth cousins once removed! NEW. WAS $12, NOW $9.

IN-CRAZY CRATE CG 12: BOOK 16: 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS OF PORTER COUNTY, INDIANA. Compiled by Mrs. Nellie Hiday. ©1970, Heritage House, 108 pages, stapled, punched for a three-ring binder. This abstraction includes an abbreviation for the township (sample list on the first page), number of household, name, age, sex, birthplace (usually state or country) and occupation. You can save your eyestrain on this one! WAS $12, NOW $8. 1 copy used.

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Well, here is a new crate from our recent supplier. We have a mix of things in this one, so settle back, relax and enjoy the mixture of books on this list. There is not much of it left!

First some Ohio census lists: These are mostly not the lists from the Accelerated Indexing Systems firm. These are lists done by people from Ohio, genealogists for many years, most of them working at indexing the materials from their own or adjacent counties in which they had been working for many years.

OH-CRAZY CRATE CG13: BOOK 1: INDEX TO THE 1860 FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS OF OHIO, VOLUME I SURNAMES BEGINNING WITH THE LETTERS ‘A’ THRU ‘J’ AND VOLUME II, SURNAMES BEGINNING WITH THE LETTERS ‘K’ THRU Z. Compiled by Lida Flint Harshman And HER FRIENDS. ©1979 by Mrs. Harshman. WAS $120 for the set of two books, now $105. In 1860 there were 2,338,281 persons listed in the Federal Census of Ohio. All heads of household only were listed + any other persons with a different surname. If there were several people with the same surname, but that surname was different than the head of household then the oldest of these was listed in the index. If a parent of the Head of Household, having the same last name, were living there, he or she was listed, too. The listing included in this book totals 650,449 names. Every effort was made to ensure the utmost in coverage and accuracy. A listing of the helpers is full of people with recognizable names in the field of Ohio genealogy. A key to the microfilm numbers of the Ohio 1850 Census Microfilm is included. The numbers of the census rolls run from 928 through 1054. A map of Ohio is included on the endpapers of the book, so finding the township is easy.

Page ix of the Preface has a listing of explanations about county and township listings. No counties had more than one city with ward designations. Only 14 cities had wards-CANTON, CINCINNATI, CIRCLEVILLE, CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, DAYTON, MARIETTA, MOUNT VERNON, SPRINGFIELD, STEUBENVILLE, TOLEDO, WOOSTER, XENIA AND ZANESVILLE. SAMPLE: Middlebroke, Mary WRHM 56, [TRANSLATION WARREN COUNTY, HAMILTON TOWNSHIP page 56] which did not show up on the census index on the internet, but does here. AND Middlebrook, John, SCGR, 371 [TRANSLATION, SCIOTO COUNTY, GREEN TOWNSHIP, page 371.] that we did find through the internet. [Note: No one would be willing to vote funds to honor the 1850 census takers for their ability to spell surnames.] In a sampling of this size and with the flip of a few pages, this would give you the opportunity to catch most misspellings Both of these books are of excellent quality, hardbound, Volume I has 637 pages, 4 columns wide, 120 entries per column. Volume II has the remaining numbers to the total of 1,353 pages! If you have a lot of Ohio ancestry, this would be a good value for you. Any library with a genealogical interest by their patrons in Ohio materials should have this volume in their collection. WAS $120, for the set, NOW $105.

OH-CRAZY CRATE CG13: BOOK 4: OHIO 1820 FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS INDEX. By the Ohio Library Foundation, ©1964. Reprinted 1976. 831 pages, hardbound. $60. The best thing about this book is the typing has not been shrunk to the point it takes a magnabrite to read it. It looks like a