Introduction
Genealogists don't usually
research their families
long before they discover
that the US Census of 1890
no longer exists. It was
heavily damaged during a
fire in 1921 and ordered
to be destroyed thirteen
years later by the Census
Bureau. Years later, a
very small portion of the
census was discovered to
have eluded destruction,
unfortunately, this did
not include Tarrant
County.
Since
the census is such an
important tool in tracing
migration and residence
patterns of our ancestors,
we felt that the gap
created by this missing
document must be filled by
another tool of equal
value. In September 1990,
the Fort Worth
Genealogical Society began
a project to construct
such a tool.
This
publication is intended to
provide to you a means to
establish the fact that a
person or family resided
in Tarrant County in or
about the year 1890. Many
people have worked on this
project over the years
gathering more than
131,000 records from
fifteen source from that
time period and entering
them into the
computer. This CD
includes three indexes
that combine all of this
information into an easily
searchable format.
A
problem with the soundex
calculator forced us to
remove spaces and
punctuation from names
like De Witt, O'Leary, Mc
Dowell, St. Clair and etc.
We apologize for any
inconvenience this may
cause you, but this was
necessary to correct the
problem.
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