<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div> </div> <div> Territories went through at least two stages:</div> <div> </div> <div>Unorganized, where the U.S. owned the place but had not yet endeavored  to govern it. No U.S. officials were present and there were no guarantees of constitutional rights. Folks could enter the territory, but were pretty much on their own. </div> <div> </div> <div>Organized - The U.S. government was present - often, at first, in the form of a Territorial Governor and an Adjutant General; later with county governments, a territorial council etc. Constitutional guarantees were in place and attempts were usually eventually made to enforce them.</div> <div> </div> <div>The U.S. Census should have covered organized territories.  The special territorial censuses that were referred were usually taken as an effort to evaluate the population to see if it justified accepting the territory as a state.  There were also censuses/surveys made in some territories to estimate the tax base - the U.S. government did not want to bring a territory into the Union until it could suppor itself.  Some of the special census have minimal data, but others are fairly rich.</div> <div> </div> <div>I teach a class in Territorial Records - could you tell?</div> <div> </div> <div>Jack Butler</div> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" mce_style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;"> <div >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [APG Public List] US Territories<BR>From: "LBoswell" <laboswell@rogers.com><BR>Date: Tue, October 06, 2009 11:17 am<BR>To: "Jeanette Daniels" <jeanettedaniels8667@yahoo.com>,<BR><apgpubliclist@apgen.org><BR><BR><mce:style></mce:style> <STYLE mce_bogus="1"></STYLE> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">So someone who was in Alaska, before it acquired statehood would only show in one of these special censuses and not somewhere in the national ones?  Thought there might be a separate listing under them somehow. Something that I haven't looked into before, no need until now.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Larry</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" mce_style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" mce_style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black" mce_style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><STRONG>From:</STRONG> <A title=jeanettedaniels8667@yahoo.com href="mailto:jeanettedaniels8667@yahoo.com" target=_blank mce_href="mailto:jeanettedaniels8667@yahoo.com">Jeanette Daniels</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" mce_style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>To:</STRONG> <A title=laboswell@rogers.com href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com" target=_blank mce_href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com">LBoswell</A> ; <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org" target=_blank mce_href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" mce_style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>Sent:</STRONG>Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:25 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" mce_style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>Subject:</STRONG>Re: [APG Public List] US Territories</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18pt" mce_style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"> <DIV>Larry,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Once an area was considered a US Territory, census records were ususally kept.  Some of these were special censuses, meaning that they were not necessarily kept at the regular 10 year interval that censuses were kept for the then current states of the US.  You might find a census every year or so because the US government needed to know how many people were living in that territory.  Some of these censuses are statistical and some list the heads of household and the number of people living in it.  It really depends upon the reason that the census was taken.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jeanette<BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18pt" mce_style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><BR> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" mce_style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma> <HR SIZE=1> <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" mce_style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></STRONG>LBoswell <laboswell@rogers.com><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" mce_style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></STRONG>apgpubliclist@apgen.org<BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" mce_style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></STRONG>Tue, October 6, 2009 6:53:42 AM<BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" mce_style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></STRONG>[APG Public List] US Territories<BR></FONT><BR><mce:style></mce:style> <STYLE mce_bogus="1"></STYLE> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Haven't time to look this up, so a quick question here:  what about territories (like Alaska, but also current ones) and the US censuses?  Where included?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">looking for missing person (missing from census, that is)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Larry</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> _______________________________________________<BR>APG Public Mailing List<BR><a href="http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/" target=_blank mce_href="http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/">http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/</a><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>