Our (meaning the US) National Archives or the Mexican National
Archives? Marge
On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Lynn Turner wrote:

> I was hoping that no one would ask...lol.
>
> A preliminary survey has been done by a colleague of mine, however,
> they feel
> that before it's published (or let me publish it on my blog) they
> would like to
> clean it up. The survey went a little something like this...The "Datos
> Preliminares, Sujetos a Rectificacion del Censo General de Havitantes
> de 1930
> por Municipios," on film #0547084 item 11, was consulted then crossed
> checked
> against the GSU's (Genealogical Society of Utah aka Family History
> Dept. aka
> FamilySearch) collection of the census. Many municipios were found to
> be missing
> (about 300 or just over 10% of all muncipios through out Mexico), and
> when it
> was suggested that the GSU go back and pick up the missing municipios
> they were
> told that we had filmed them all.
>
> With that said the GSU filmed the 1930 census from the National
> Archives...some
> states and/or municipios may have copies of the alleged "lost"
> records. Also,
> nearly 20 years have passed since the census was microfilmed by the
> GSU, which
> is plenty of time for the National Archives to dust off old books and
> discover
> other municipios that may have been misplaced in 1987.
>
> So, the short answer to your question: "what do you mean by lost?"
> Lost or
> misplaced by the National Archives. And, to answer Brady's question:
> both
> Torreon, Coahuila and Tlaltenango (listed as just Sanchez Ramon in the
> list of
> municpios in 1930), Zacatecas are on the preliminary "lost" list.
>
> I hope the explanation wasn't too confusing...
>
> Lynn
>
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