CD Rom of selected Nineteenth Century Alamance County Research Materials

The data files are in Access (Microsoft Office) 1995-2002 versions and also in Adobe Acrobat Reader or plain text files
 

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Alamance County, NC transcripts of census & tax records Vol. I
Carole Watterson Troxler,
Professor of History, Elon University
12,000 individuals
  • 1860 census of free population List of surnames in 1860 census 
  • surnames from 1850 & 1860 censuses of enslaved population
  • 1850 & 1860 agricultural censuses
  • 1869 tax list by township 
  • 1893 township maps by W.L. Spoon (the entire map by townships) 
  • 1878 Thomas Stafford map
  • Powerpoint file of out-of-the-way places in 1800s Alamance County -- & more.   Enjoy this copyrighted file here. (When file opens, press F5, then space bar to advance.)

Easy to use!   The CD's Access main menu look like this:




And a typical search page in the Access files looks like this:
This likeness is somewhat reduced, so it looks a bit fuzzy here.  The red instructions are on every screen.
This is the top of one screen from the 1860 free census.  Access allows you to rearrange and select records.  This same information, without the rearranging capacity, is in an Adobe Reader file.



 

Link to a list of surnames in the 1860 census of free population (8,268 individuals, 680 surnames)
 



Former Elon University History Students
who contributed to some of the databases on the CDduring 1996, 1997 and 2001 are












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