1860 Federal Census Madison County, Iowa (Transcriber's Notes) ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwcensus.org/notices/ http://www.usgwcensus.org/ http://www.usgwcensus.org/cenfiles/ ************************************************************************ Abstracted by Kent G. Transier from public records. Proofread by Judy Wight Branson. Submitted by Kent G. Transier. Copyright 2001 - 2007 by Kent G. Transier. Edited and formatted by Maggie Stewart July 2001, Corrections Made February 2003 & July 2007. ************************************************************************ All above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ************************************************************************ SOURCE: Heritage Quest CD ROM ************************************************************************ NOTE: For more information on Madison County, Iowa, Please visit the Madison County, IAGenWeb page at http://iagenweb.org/madison/ ========================================================= ALSO visit the IAGenWeb archives at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************************************ Users of this transcription of the 1860 Madison County, Iowa Federal census should be cautioned to refer to microfilm or CD ROM reproductions of the original census forms to verify and make their own interpretations of the data. L. B. Hughes, census enumerator, used phonetic spelling throughout his effort and the resulting errors have been faithfully transcribed to the best of our ability. Additional problems were created by Mr. Hughes' handwriting style. Names containing the letters "m, n, u, i, e, a, and o", especially when any of those letters were adjacent, were often very difficult to interpret. Finally, Mr. Hughes' numerals "0", "6", and "8" were often indistinguishable, especially as the second number in a two digit age entry. Kent G. Transier, Transcriber Judy Wight Branson, Proofreader