1890 Civil War census-- Ohio county of your choice Start Price USD 12.99 Current Price USD 12.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, August 28, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 Location Ohio See more about '1890 Civil War census-- Ohio county of your choice' Description This is NOT an index. These are ACTUAL CENSUS IMAGES OF THE ENTIRE COUNTY on CD from the 1890 United States special census of Civil War Union soldiers. The pages here contain a virtual gold mine of information to anyone researching their family history in this time period. This particular census is hard to find and its existence is not widely known of.  It contains information about almost every surviving soldier of the Union army and/or his widow.  Genealogical information from 1890 is highly sought after among researchers because the entire 1890 census of the general population was destroyed in a fire.  This left a gap of 20 years between the available censuses, frustrating researchers. The Union Veterans’ census is one of the only remaining sources available to find your ancestors in 1890.  The history behind this census:  An act of Congress on March 1, 1889 provided that the 1890 census also include "a list of the names, organizations, and length of service of those who had served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and who are survivors at the time of said inquiry, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines . . . "  The upper half of each page contains: the name of the veteran (or if he did not survive, the names of both the widow and her deceased husband) the veteran’s rank company, regiment or vessel date of enlistment date of discharge length of service in years, months and days. The lower half of each page contains: the post office address of each person listed disability incurred by the veteran (if any) under the heading "general remarks," other information necessary for a complete statement of the veteran’s term of service. Persons who enlisted and served under assumed names, and afterwards assumed their lawful names, are listed under their real names followed by their aliases. In a few cases names of Confederate veterans were recorded inadvertently. There are actually some cases in which the man’s name is crossed out and labeled "Confederate." I actually looked at this census and found out, to my surprise, that my great great great grandfather was included in the list! I was unaware that he served in the Civil War until I discovered this census. Using this information, I was able to then obtain his Civil War papers on file with the National Archives. Even if you know that your ancestor served in the Civil War, you can still learn new information about him from this census. For example, do you know if your ancestor was injured during the war? This will give you that information and allow you to get a glimpse of what life was like in America in the years following the war. Who knows who or what you will find out about your ancestors in this census!  You might be as surprised as I was! We have this census available for all of the 88 Ohio counties on CD.  The counties available are: Adams Allen  Ashland Ashtabula Athens Belmont Brown Butler Carroll Champaign Clark Clinton Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Cuyahoga Darke Defiance Delaware  Erie Fairfield Fayette Franklin Fulton Gallia Geauga Guernsey Hamilton  Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Highland Hocking Holmes Huron Jackson Jefferson Knox Lake Lawrence Licking Logan Lorain Lucas Madison Mahoning Marion Medina Meigs Mercer Monroe Morgan Morrow Muskingum Noble Ottawa Paulding Perry Pickaway Pike Portage Preble Putnam Richland Ross Sandusky Scioto  Seneca Shelby Stark Summit Trumbull Tuscarawas Union  Van Wert Vinton Warren Washington  Wayne Williams Wood  Wyandot   If you are the winning bidder, please choose your county from the list above.  If you want to purchase the county without bidding on this auction, feel free to find the one you want in my ebay store.  They are all listed there too.  This CD was made with the best available census images.  As with any census images you find, there are pages that can be difficult to read.  This could be because of the old style handwriting of the census taker, the writing being light, dark, illegible or small.  While almost all of the images will be entirely readable, I am not responsible if you have a hard time reading the images. This CD is both Mac and PC compatible.  Sorry, but I cannot honor requests to do lookups due to time contraints.  Also, this CD is not returnable unless it does not work. If you would like to see a sample page from this census, click on the link to my other auctions (toward the top right of this auction page), and click on the link for the Gallia county, Ohio census.  There is a sample page there that you can check out. I do have other counties from this same census listed on ebay, as well as lots and lots of other Ohio genealogy resources.  Check out my other auctions to see what counties are currently being featured.    Thanks for bidding, and happy hunting!   genealogy geneology . Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!