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    Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

    Looking for a Pre-War Petersburg, VA census and/or registery of business.

    Thanks,

    Paul B.
    Paul B. Boulden Jr.


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    Re: Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

    Paul,

    Try calling Pamplin Park, they have all kinds of good stuff in their library in relation to businesses in the Petersburg/Dinwiddie Area. A lot has to do with the Boisseau family but I bet they have copies of the census records, seeing how they have big blow up versions of it in the park.
    Brandon English

    "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."--William T. Sherman

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      Re: Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

      Paul,

      You might also try joining ancestry.com. They are a geneological website that has digitized U.S. census records available. There is a small fee involved, however this will give you access to the actual scanned images of available census materials for Petersburg, and the surrounding counties. I do know that they have 1850 and 1860 census reports digitized.

      I don't believe they have city directories on line however. I will try to dig around and see if there are any other sources for those. (I am unsure of the first publication date of any Petersburg City Directories, however it may be post-war. They started to be seen elsewhere in the 1850s, however they were often only a partial listing of businesses in any given city.)

      Good luck!

      Dan Schoeneberg
      Dan Schoeneberg

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      • #4
        Re: Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

        Emmanuel Dabney will point you in the right direction.

        I've been hearing A LOT about pre and post War Petersburg from him recently.

        Bill
        Bill Backus

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        • #5
          Paul

          Library of Va has some directories. I have use the 1852 edition several times. Elliott and Nye’s Virginia Directory and Business Register for 1852. Richmond, Va.: Elliott and Nye, 1852. F224.7 V833 1852. If I recall its a statewide directory. If not there are some around there.

          I'm confident there is one just for Dinwiddie and Petersburg.

          Archival and Information Services Division
          Reference Section
          804/692-3777
          www.lva.lib.va.us

          http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/...orySources.pdf
          Last edited by Vuhginyuh; 10-22-2008, 05:39 PM. Reason: links, linx, whatever.
          B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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            Re: Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

            I have the 1859 and 1860 business directories for Petersburg and have access to slave and free persons census for 1860 and 1870. I will be happy to help where I can.
            Sincerely,
            Emmanuel Dabney
            Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
            http://www.agsas.org

            "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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            • #7
              Re: Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

              might not be exactly what you need,however www.mdgorman.com.has
              business for greater richmond.other good pics to boot.
              mdunaway
              40thvainfcob

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                Re: Pre-War Petersburg, VA Census???

                Originally posted by mdunaway View Post
                might not be exactly what you need,however www.mdgorman.com.has
                business for greater richmond.other good pics to boot.
                mdunaway
                40thvainfcob
                Yep...I know Mike and his outstanding site...having posted these links before...Petersburg was the city requested though.

                Richmond Resources
                Authentic Campaigner
                http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13218&highlight=mdgorman
                Emmanuel, I'll be in touch.

                Thanks,

                Paul B.
                Last edited by Stonewall_Greyfox; 10-27-2008, 07:31 AM.
                Paul B. Boulden Jr.


                RAH VA MIL '04
                (Loblolly Mess)
                [URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
                [URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]

                [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
                [URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
                [URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]

                Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

                "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."

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