Howdy All

Here's my new and improved annotated census. There are a
lot of changes, and some new entries that I missed earlier.
I've also included the 1910 census.

The information that is different from last time is marked
with an *. If the * is in front of the R-number, it means
either I newly identified the person or I've changed my
mind about which one they were. If the * is in front of a
name, it usually means I read it differently the second
time I looked at it, but in a few cases it means an entire
line that I missed last time. If the * is in front of the
page number, it means the entire entry is new. If the * is
in front of the county name, it means the entire county is
new.

As of this writing I have 66 different Rigsby lines in my
database. The head of each of these lines is given an
R-number [e.g.: R05]. Their children are numbered
sequentially [e.g.: oldest R05.1, then R05.2, etc], and
subsequent generations extend the pattern. Thus my gg-
grandmother Jane Ellen Rigsby, R05.2.5.4, was the fourth
child of the fifth child of the second child of R05.

Find your Rigsby ancestor on the 1910 census to get their
R-number. You can then search for that number on the
earlier censuses to get all their entries. Generations
further back can be found by successively removing the
end of the R-number. [E.g.: search for R14.11.1.4, then for
R14.11.1, then for R14.11, then for R14.]

I would like to claim this is perfect, but can't. In
several places I had to guess where someone came from, or
which John W Rigsby was which. No doubt I guessed wrong
occasionally. As I continue researching and turn up new
information, I'll post corrections. And of course I'd like
to hear from you if you can straighten out any mistakes.

All this information and more is also on my web site. The
heads of the 66 different lines are all on this page:

http://hindskw.com/KennethHinds/5919.html

Or you can go to the R names index:

http://hindskw.com/KennethHinds/nameindexr.html

I'm slowly putting all the rest of my Rigsby information on
the site, so check back periodically.

If you don't find your Rigsby ancestor on the census, or
they are one of the few without an R-number, let me know
and I'll give you any other information I have.

I'd be happy to answer any questions, but please post them
as a new message to the board instead of responding to this
one. I'd like these census messages to stay together on the
listing to make it easier for future researchers to use.

Note: Most of the 1890 census was destroyed in a fire.
There are no Rigsbys on the parts that remained.

Note: My comments are in [square brackets]. I have used
these abbreviations:

s/o = son of
d/o = daughter of
sb = should be
prob = probably

Ken